After the revelation of the butterfly ballot fiasco and the Supreme Court's meeting with Karl Rove, John Roberts and other "unbiased authorities," it was no surprise to find out that with the permission of the Florida Republican Legislature, Governor Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris had happily and illegally transferred thousands of innocent voters' names to lists of matching felons' names in order to keep them from voting. Most of the names, of course, belonged to African Americans. This quite obvious "hate crime" was never followed up by President Clinton's useless acting Attorney General nor by the riff-raff eventually appointed by Junior Bush.
(5) The Constitution Fights Back
Now, thirty some states with Republican legislatures are trying to prevent minorities and Medicare/ Social Security recipients from registering and/ or voting, most by making it difficult to obtain a "voter ID." Fortunately, "federal election law takes precedence over state law in a federal election," as the 2000 Supreme Court official reminded us. Apparently, federal election laws do not require photo ID's, so I would assume that lucky voters who are already registered in those Republican strongholds will still be able to vote, no matter how difficult executives in The United States of America, Incorporated may have made it for them to obtain the new ID's. What's more, students with university ID's will still be able to vote and will not have to join the NRA to obtain valid ID's as their Republican lawmakers had intended. They did say "federal election law takes precedence over state law in a federal election," didn't they?
Al Finkelstein 4/20/12
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