Wednesday, February 22, 2012

5 million people - wiped off the voter rolls



The Democratic Governor of Minnesota - Mark Dayton - vetoed a voter ID law last year - but the millionaires and billionaires are trying to get it passed as a ballot measure now in November. If successful - Minnesota will join eight other states who've passed or strengthened voter ID laws in just the last year - from Kansas - to Mississippi - to Rhode Island - to Wisconsin - to Alabama - to South Carolina - to Tennessee - to Texas. According to the Brennan Center for Justice - more than 5 million eligible voters will be disenfranchised this election thanks to these new laws. And those are mostly minorities, the poor, the elderly, and college students - mostly people who'd vote for Democrats and support stronger middle class policies. 5 million people - wiped off the voter rolls. This is an all-out assault on our democracy - and it's all happening under the radar of the mainstream media.

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