Posted on 12/06/2011 4:15:38 PM PST by jazusamo
The NAACP is calling on the United Nations to intervene as it claims state governments are colluding to "block the vote" for minority communities ahead of the 2012 election -- a charge those governments vehemently deny.
The nation's biggest civil rights organization this week released a report that claimed a raft of new voting laws at the state level would disenfranchise minority voters. The report said 14 states passed 25 measures "designed to restrict or limit the ballot access of voters of color."
The report catalogued several categories of laws that have been passed largely by Republican-dominated legislatures and which Democrats have decried in recent months as tools of voter suppression. The new laws include requirements to present photo ID at the polls, voting restrictions on felons and limitations on registration and early voting periods.
Supporters of the laws describe them as common-sense measures meant to ensure the integrity of elections. In Tennessee, which is implementing a new photo ID law, elections coordinator Mark Goins dismissed the criticism and questioned why the NAACP would flag the United Nations over its concerns, calling that effort "a bit extreme."
"I don't know what the benefit of going to the U.N. would be," he said. "I can't imagine any authority whatsoever that they would have here in Tennessee."
But the NAACP described the new measures as part of a "concerted" effort to drive down minority turnout and is planning a multi-stage campaign to attract international attention.
To start, the group is planning a "Stand 4 Freedom" rally this Saturday across from the U.N. headquarters. Supporters are being asked to sign an online pledge which, among other demands, calls on the United Nations to "investigate and condemn voter suppression tactics in the United States."
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I’m sure all of those poor A-holes will have an ID ready when they need to cash a check or to get a TV from a rent to own shack.
The NAALCP is not the largest civil rights organization in the country. That title belongs to the NRA.
“Stand 4 Freedom”. Stand 4 is the one where you get free food stamps. Stand 5 has the free cash. Stand 6...
Bump! So true.
That’s fine, but don’t dare be an Uppity-American; they’ll deem you an enemy combatant and smoke you with a drone.
The NAACP is now a laughable self-parody.
The UN? Seriously?
Snicker.
The voter has to stick around while his prints are run through AFIS, though.
The NAACP is no longer relevant.
Who cares what they do.
Here is proof, clearly these are Republicans and they have only intimidation of voters of colour in mind:
GTMA baby (lol)
Their counter-argument is that once you register to vote by presenting ID, you shouldn’t have to re-present it at the time of voting. Slows things down; creates extra bureaucracy, etc., etc.....
Post of the day! Fat chance. :-)
Anyone taking any legal complaints to the UN should be deported as a traitor against the Constitution IMO. Get the UN out of our nation. NOW.
This is good. It will make real Americans even more furious with the Leftists.
As evidence they will enter as item one ACORN. Bwahahahaha.
The NAALCP complaint against Texas is student IDs are not valid to register to vote. I would think accepting a student ID would allow the student to vote in 2 states. I know my kid was constantly being pressured to register at college in PA while registered in OH. My kid refused.
because requiring voter id would cause voting more than once to cost money...
You did register.
Then you present you ID so the nice old ladies know that you are the same person that registered under that name.
Voter ID Laws ‘Assault’ On Minority Voters, Says DNC Chair (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/voter-id-laws-assault-on-_n_1123445.html
Republicans want Voters to have ID, go figure
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