“AT LEAST 68,000 Maine residents signed a petition to repeal a recent law that prohibited Election Day voter registration. That should be more than enough to certify a November referendum, finally resolving a dispute that has turned Maine’s nearly four-decade tradition of allowing voters to register on Election Day into one of the most heated battles in the national war over the ballot box.
Maine has much to be proud of in its voting laws. The state managed to register 60,000 new voters on Election Day in 2010 – and the only claims of voter fraud were specious. Along with Minnesota and Wisconsin, both of which also had same-day registration, Maine ranked well above the national average in voter turnout. But this year, Maine’s new Republican-led House and Senate voted to get rid of same-day registration, and the state’s new Republican governor, Paul LePage, was more than eager to oblige. “ READ MORE AT BOSTON.COM
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iflizwerequeen comments
Expect more attempts at voter suppression by the rich and especially those from the Republican Party?
Why? Because they are outnumbered, that’s why.
Remember that politics is a numbers game above all and in 2008 the USA had a total of 169 million voters registered
86 million Democrats
55 million Republicans
28 million others registered
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BUT IN WASHINGTON DC, BOTH HOUSES SUPPORT VOTER SUPPRESSION SO WHAT’S NEW? Why would you expect anything different from the minority rich? They are just voting to protect their turf, their wealth, their stock portfolios.
Why do you think that BOTH houses of Congress and members of BOTH parties voted overwhelmingly in unison to defund ACORN, an organization whose only crime was to empower the poor–primarily by registering them to vote and showing them how to resist foreclosures on their homes?
That’s correct. Members of BOTH parties voted overwhelmingly to defund ACORN on the flimsy evidence of one obviously edited and highly doctored video that was submitted by a known right-wing operative by the name of James O’Keefe.
Look at the Congressional records of their votes to defund ACORN if you doubt me, and then try to defend the Democrats or the Republicans. In the Senate, only 7 Senators stood up to this travesty of what amounts to voter suppression. So don’t get on any high-horse with me regarding how the Democratic leadership in Washington is any different from the Republican legislators when it comes to voter suppression.
It is up to us to protect the vote in 2012.
HAT’S OFF TO THE CITIZENS OF MAINE!
