Between the fraudulent national voter suppression commission run by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and a plethora of state-level voter suppression and voter ID laws, many U.S. citizens are encountering roadblocks on their way to the voting booth.
The American Civil Liberties Union aims to change all that.
Coming less than a week after #NationalVoterRegistrationDay (not that we should limit that to a day, a week, a month, or a year), the ACLU is launching its own nationwide events to promote and expand voting rights and increase voting participation. The events are being started in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, since voting rules are established at the state level.
Oct. 1 marks the start of the ACLU “Let People Vote” campaign. Ground Zero is in Lawrence, Kansas, right in Kobach’s backyard, since he’s been one of the driving forces of voter suppression.
It’s no surprise that Donald Trump picked Kobach to rev up the conservative base against the nonexistent problem of voter fraud. Trump and Kobach are trying to cast doubt on the fact that Trump received nearly 3 million fewer votes than Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, claiming that those votes must have been illegal.
Voter suppression—in multiple forms—has long been Kobach’s specialty.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2yClrwN
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