Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog: "I have been watching the debate over the renewal of the Voting Rights Act on C-SPAN and to say it is a friggin’ bigot parade is an understatement. One white GOP cracker after another coming up and trying to parse attempts to gut the bill as common-sense measures of 'restraint.' Really, it is Jim Crow all over again
Everyone who goes nuts any time the word Diebold is mentioned should be screaming loud and long over this. The attempt to disenfranchise voters, particularly African American voters (consistently reliable Democrats) has had a long and ugly history within the Republican party and there are four really nasty wingnut amendments being debated. Steve Gilliard has more on Rep. Steve King (who is trying to disenfranchise non-English speaking voters like American Indians) and Tracy Russo covers the topic well at the DNC website. . ."
Read on, but prepare to be outraged (or at least irritated):
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