MAP OF SHAME
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Less than a day after conservative Supreme Court Justices John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy,
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito ruled against Section 4 of the Voting
Rights Act, southern state
governors and legislators started rolling out voter suppression laws again.
Texas Governor Rick Perry and his Attorney General Greg Abbott rushed ahead to
make it more difficult for ethnic minorities, college students, the poor and
the elderly to vote in Texas.
Florida’s Governor Rick Scott and his Tea Partied legislators resumed their 2012 General Election voter suppression tactic to purge voter rolls.
Florida’s Governor Rick Scott and his Tea Partied legislators resumed their 2012 General Election voter suppression tactic to purge voter rolls.
Ohio’s Tea Partied Republican Secretary of Elections, Jon Husted,
and Ohio's Tea Partied Republican legislators are continuing their 2012 voter suppression
tactics suppressing the votes of college students, eliminating early voting
hours and weekend voting for workers.
North Carolina state legislature
approved the “most extreme anti-voter bill passed by any
state since the Jim Crow era” (salon.com)
Take
a look at the list of provisions North Carolina legislators’ included in their "anti-Democratic — voter
suppression bill"...
North
Carolina Legislators' Voter Suppression
Bill
(salon.com)
- Draconian polling place Photo ID restrictions (despite any evidence of polling place impersonation in the state)
- Shortens the early voting period
- Eliminates NC’s very successful same-day voter registration program.
- Eliminates pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds, who currently can register to vote before they turn 18.
- Outlaws paid voter registration drives.
- Eliminates straight-ticket voting.
- Eliminates provisional voting if someone shows up at the wrong precinct.
- Prohibits counties from extending poll hours by one hour on Election Day in extraordinary circumstances, such as in response to long lines.
- Allows any registered voter of a county to challenge the eligibility of a voter rather than just a voter of the precinct in which the suspect voter is registered.
- Moves the presidential primary to the first Tuesday after South Carolina’s primary if that state holds its primary before March 15. That would mean North Carolina would have two primaries during presidential elections.
- Increases the maximum allowed campaign contribution per election from $4,000 to $5,000.
- Loosens disclosure requirements in campaign ads paid for by independent committees.
- Repeals the publicly funded election program for appellate court judges.
- Repeals the requirement that candidates endorse ads run by their campaigns.
Petition
If any of the petitions below are closed, it means WE are signing!
petitions.moveon.org/sign/protect-the-right-to-6
boldprogressives.org/.../america-needs-a-right-to-vote-amendment-sign-t...
forcechange.com/68029/condemn-renewed-attacks-on-voting-rights/
Contact…
governor.state.tx.us/contact/
https://www.oag.state.tx.us/agency/contacts.shtml
www.governor.state.nc.us/contact
Contact North
Carolina General Assembly Republican Majority Whip Mike Hager
(919)-733-5749
www.salisburypost.com/article/20130722/.../nc-general-assembly-contact...
www.ncgov.com/library/.../Spring2012NCCapitolAreaPhoneDirectory.p...
www.flsenate.gov › Senators
and...
www.flgov.com/contact-gov-scott/
www.myfloridahouse.gov
› Representatives
and...
GOTTA PUT PRESSURE ON THE SUPPRESSORS
GOTTA EXPOSE THEM ON SOCIAL NETWORKS
GOTTA EXPOSE THEM ON SOCIAL NETWORKS
GOTTA REGISTER
GOTTA VOTE
in record numbers
Midterm Elections 2014!
SOURCES
www.salon.com/.../north_carolina_approves_nations_most_restr.
rafiusa.org/takeaction/north-carolina-house-of-representatives-2013-2014/
www.guardian.co.uk
› World news › Texas
www.newyorker.com/.../newsdesk/.../voting-rights-time-to-mess-with-texas....
www.ncsl.org/legislatures-elections/elections/voter-id.aspx
www.citybeat.com/.../article-27672-republicans_continue_voter_suppres...
www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/11/election-voter-suppression-map
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