Forum Post: "LOL" OWS Protest Party against Americas crooks and thieves
Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 6, 2011, 9:59 a.m. EST by USCitizenVoter
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I'll tell you who I think should be the next President of the USA and where she's been hiding out. "she's the lunch room lady". You all know she can throw a big meal on the plate and stay on budget and get the job done on time every day of the week. I think she is a workaholic and we should give her an applause for maintaining such a frantic schedule. Yes indeed she's the one I'm voting for to be my next President. In fact there is enuogh of them lunch room ladies around to form a whole new government. Can I count on your vote too? Together we can get those crooks and thieves out of office.
It's official! LOL. OOps sorry I forgot, we're officially non political and leaderless. Damn.
lunch room lady for president 2012
Here's todays reality a news story today on the guardian. The NAACP says voting rights are being whittled down at every stage of the electoral process. First of all, the registration of new voters is being impeded in several states by moves to block voter registration drives that have historically proved to be an important way of bringing black and Hispanic people to the poll.
Four states – Florida, Iowa, Kentucky and Virginia – continue to withhold the vote from anyone convicted of a criminal offence. In Florida, offenders who have completed their sentences have to wait at least five years before they can even apply to restore their right to register to vote.
Across the US, more than 5 million Americans are denied the right to vote on grounds that they were convicted of a felony, 4 million of whom have fully completed their sentence and almost half of whom are black or Hispanic.
Other measures have reduced the ease of early voting, a convenience that is disproportionately heavily used by African-Americans. Even more importantly, 34 states have introduced a requirement that voters carry photo ID cards on the day of the election itself.
Studies have showed that the proportion of voters who do not have access to valid photo ID cards is much higher among older African-Americans because they were not given birth certificates in the days of segregation. Students and young voters also often lack identification and are thus in danger of being stripped of their right to vote.
In Texas, a law has been passed that prevents students from voting on the basis of their college ID cards, while allowing anyone to cast their ballot if they can show a permit to carry a concealed handgun.
Benjamin Jealous, the NAACP's president, said the moves amounted to "a massive attempt at state-sponsored voter suppression." He added that the association will be urging the UN "to look at what is a co-ordinated campaign to disenfranchise persons of colour."