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kpete

(72,018 posts) Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:57 AM Mar 2015

Colin Powell Has A Pretty Good Suggestion For Fixing Voter ID Laws: "YOU VOTE THEM OUT"

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday said that black voters should vote lawmakers who support voter ID restrictions out of office.

Powell, who served as secretary of state under George W. Bush, said that he was troubled by the voter ID laws, but that that they were "hurdles that we can get over."

"What I say to my friends in the African-American community, is whatever those states do, you meet the standards and then you make sure you register," Powell said during an interview on ABC's "This Week." "You make sure you vote. You make sure you vote for the people who tried to put these barriers, these hurdles in your way and then you vote them out."

According to an analysis by the Government Accountability Office released last year, tougher voter ID laws most reduce turnout among black and younger voters. Republicans have pushed the voter ID laws as a way to reduce voter fraud, but critics say the restrictions are just an excuse for Republicans to reduce Democratic turnout.

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Colin Powell Has A Pretty Good Suggestion For Fixing Voter ID Laws: "YOU VOTE THEM OUT" (Original Post) kpete Mar 2015 OP

What a good solution el_bryanto Mar 2015 #1

I've got a better one. Orsino Mar 2015 #2

Easier said than done JonLP24 Mar 2015 #3

R#3 & K for, what a brilliant, *brilliant* man!1 Note to Colon: rephrasing your advice:: UTUSN Mar 2015 #4

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

1. What a good solution

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 12:00 PM

Mar 2015

Hmmm - so there are laws created to keep blacks from voting - and all they have to do is vote those laws out . . . yes - that would work. Now if you'll excuse me I have a giant cat to go bell.

Bryant

Orsino

(37,428 posts)

2. I've got a better one.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 01:00 PM

Mar 2015

Federal and state judges up to and including the US Supreme Court could value the vote so highly that attempts to limit it are quickly demolished.

Why should we wait for one or more election cycles to vote down the unconstitutional? Fuck you, Powell. The right to vote isn't supposed to be within the reach of voters.

Fuck you again, Powell. You are wrong, and coincidentally you are wrong again in a manner convenient to your paymasters.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)

3. Easier said than done

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 01:17 PM

Mar 2015

How do I vote out the CIA?

UTUSN

(70,743 posts)

4. R#3 & K for, what a brilliant, *brilliant* man!1 Note to Colon: rephrasing your advice::

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 02:06 PM

Mar 2015

1- To begin with, dear Minorities, VOTE, as opposed to NOT voting.

2- Never *ever* vote for Rethugs.

3- Just for Colon: It's too late now (it was too late back at My Lai):: Desist being the errand boy for Old White males.

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