officials being incompetent or evil enough to make voting more difficult, or impossible. The same people that call out the Constitution to support their politics are responsible for voter disenfranchisement, they are hypocrites.

And we have compulsory voting i.e. essentially 100% turnout.

...almost as bad as voting in third-world countries. Maybe that's what the Top 1% wants us to become.

Any State with so few polling places that voters have to stand in line for over an hour to reach the polls is either criminally incompetent or practicing voter suppression, plain and simple.

repukes cannot win on the issues, so they have to try suppressing the vote

The old one isn't working.

I think we know what the House RAPEuglicans think of minority voting rights.

In light of all the recent attempts at disenfranchisement, it needs to be expanded to cover all forms of voter suppression in all the states. And while they're at it Congress can standardize federal elections and address gerrymandering. In the meantime, leave the current law alone.

God I HATE antonin scalia. With the burning fire of a thousand suns!

..........http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_Dei

Attorney General Robert Kennedy uses a bullhorn to address black demonstrators at the Justice Department, on June 14, 1963.
The demonstrators marched to the White House, then to the District Building, and wound up at the Justice Department. (AP Photo/stf) #

I will be pissed the hell off!

Oh, don't tell me! Minorities daring to vote?

Never mind. Minorities ought vote twice for all this!

They had two voting machines for each of the three precincts my polling place served.

People don't get it. Repeal of the Voting Rights Act will open the gates to all kinds of voter suppression. Voter suppression has gone beyond the scope of race, and fuck Scalia for saying that it is an "entitlement."

It's clear that those in power want to see voting returned to the elite classes.

In one scenario, I literally waited in line for 4 hours to vote.

In the other, I waited for ten minutes.

I will give you three guesses at which was which, and the first two guesses don't count.

if somebody in power on the other side of the aisle would at least admit that they lack confidence that they can win on the issues. If you're so confident your ideas are better than the Democrats', why do you need to (subtly) make it more inconvenient for the other side's base to turn out? I thought EVERYBODY is guaranteed the right to vote in the Constitution.

They should add to the Voting Rights Act they people need to vote within an hour or two.
Maybe a certain number of machines per population. Extra machines should be on hand for emergencies like long lines or machines breaking down etc.

was to make it more difficult for minorities to vote. If the supreme court approves of that fact - it's over.

The teabaggers taking over so many state governments (a few more and they get to hold a Constitutional convention!),
the measures those state governments are taking under teabag control,
the gerrymandering, and the push to extend it to the Presidential election,
the Supreme Court decisions that have been made, Citizens United especially,
and the way the arguments are going on the Voting Rights Act case

We just won an election by a landslide a few months ago, but it doesn't really seem to matter all that much.

that there are so many dumb people in this country. And they got a hold of the republicans? I just can't wrap my mind around it; how did 'normal' people succumb to this, and why are they succeeding?

Ack!

... My guess is a well-funded fascist duo named, Koch...

must... obey....

Although I don't know whether the notorious Powell memo was the spark that ignited this reaction or was just a reflection of what was already brewing on the right, it clearly lays out the fears and anxieties of the ruling elites (both Republican and Democratic) at the time and the need they felt to stamp out the growing influences of movements from the '60s that challenged their worldview.

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/

If they do succeed in the short term, it'll be back to marches, beatings, civil disobedience. And they'll lose again.

on my Facebook page before coming here. I hope it gets shared far and wide. I'm so disgusted with Scalia and the SCOTUS that I don't even know where to begin. Never did I think that this shit would have to be fought all over again in my lifetime.

...shouldn't be more obvious than in the elections since 2000.

provided they can prove non-discriminatory practices for the previous ten years.

So, all any state or jurisdiction has to do is make certain everyone has equal access to the voting process, do so for ten years, then request a bail out which exempts them from Section 5 coverage.

At this point, they've all had plenty of opportunity to do this. The fact that they haven't would indicate there are still problems, hence the necessity for maintaining the Voting Rights Act intact, including Section 5 coverage.

(Ohio) too. It is unacceptable. K&R

and by 2012, after Ohio election officials had been given ample time, years, to do something about it to correct the problems, the lines to vote for President of the United States were longer than ever before!

The numbers of Democratic voters who gave up waiting, returned to work or just went on home exhausted, after never getting the opportunity to cast a vote clear back in 2004, was unacceptable. Now, it's just plain criminal.

what part of Ohio are you in? I miss autumn in Ohio. That season doesn't exist in Texas

I haven't been a resident there since 1980, but was born and raised over in the fields of northwest Ohio, closest to Sydney, Piqua, and Troy area (north of Dayton, south of Lima on I-75); lived and worked in Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus, too. Where I live now in Washington we normally only have two seasons, rainy season and flood season, and green is the color of the state.

Spent time in the Canton area, and lived in Cleveland from 1981 to 1992 when I moved to DFW. I really miss C-town.

and I can't
abide fools

When I first clicked on the OP, the picture didn't show up, so the entire content of the OP seemed to be nothing more than "THIS!!" Over two hundred recs for a one word OP seemed silly to me.

Then the picture loaded a few seconds latter, and I quickly realized why the OP had so many recs. Great pic, thanks for posting.

We need a few more Supreme Court Justices who haven't been bought-and-paid-for by mega-wealthy racists and corporate CEO's.

Strike "SOUTHERN."

The VRA should be nationwide. God help me, but I think we'll need it in Wisconsin before long.

In England, long queues to vote are almost unknown - I've heard of problems in a few places, especially in 2010, but it's very rare.

If I say it took me 15 minutes to vote, that's including the walk from my home to the polling station!

Making people wait hours to vote is totally against the whole principle of democracy.

of course he does know it, but "other parochial forces" make him say really stupid shit about "entitlements", he's a JOKE that ain't even a little funny.