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Is it still a democratic process when people with certain opinions are not allowed to vote? Well, that's what is happening in Florida - AGAIN!!
Cecilia mentioned it in this thread but it deserves a thread of its own, I think. As I said it isn't the first time Florida has been disenfranchising voters likely to vote Democrat. In the Bush II race versus Gore, Dubya's brother spent millions of tax payers money giving it to cronies of his whose database companies were used to remove thousands of non-felons who had name similar to felons but who were mostly black and Democrat voting. That story received almost no coverage at all in the US - in fact pretty much exactly no coverage, but it was covered by the BBC (thanks to investigative reporter Greg Palast).
In 2004 Florida was "caging" voters in Democrat leaning districts - Palast again.
Once again the Republicans (or the bunch of crooks who like to call themselves that) are fixing the vote by preventing people who would vote against them from getting to vote. This is classic third world political corruption stuff and should be embarrassing but the people who think they win never complain and the people who lose never make the news. People who would be likely to vote Democrat are being struck from the voter rolls and having hurdles put in their way to get back on - people like this.
I'm sure there are people on this site that, upon hearing this, will say that they are starting to like Governor Scott more and more, but those sorts of people don't like democracy, or even a representative republic. Scott takes voter suppression to new extremes.
Cecilia mentioned it in this thread but it deserves a thread of its own, I think. As I said it isn't the first time Florida has been disenfranchising voters likely to vote Democrat. In the Bush II race versus Gore, Dubya's brother spent millions of tax payers money giving it to cronies of his whose database companies were used to remove thousands of non-felons who had name similar to felons but who were mostly black and Democrat voting. That story received almost no coverage at all in the US - in fact pretty much exactly no coverage, but it was covered by the BBC (thanks to investigative reporter Greg Palast).
In 2004 Florida was "caging" voters in Democrat leaning districts - Palast again.
Once again the Republicans (or the bunch of crooks who like to call themselves that) are fixing the vote by preventing people who would vote against them from getting to vote. This is classic third world political corruption stuff and should be embarrassing but the people who think they win never complain and the people who lose never make the news. People who would be likely to vote Democrat are being struck from the voter rolls and having hurdles put in their way to get back on - people like this.
I'm sure there are people on this site that, upon hearing this, will say that they are starting to like Governor Scott more and more, but those sorts of people don't like democracy, or even a representative republic. Scott takes voter suppression to new extremes.