It’s amazing how easily lawmakers sent to the state capital this year to repair the economy get side-tracked with legislation designed to preserve their own power. New Hampshire legislators are taking the next step in the movement to weed out voters they consider unfriendly to their party. It’s an object lesson for where the North Carolina advocates for a photo ID requirement could be headed if they succeed. Republicans in the Granite State have a bill to ban college students from voting in their “temporary” community unless they declare they plan to live there “indefinitely.” Such a move appears to violate US Supreme Court decisions, but of course that was before the Roberts radicals took charge of the Court. Students and Democrats in New Hampshire are outraged, and so is the president of the Dartmouth College Republicans, Richard Sunderland. The measure should be defeated, he says, even if student voters currently favor Democrats. The answer is to broaden the GOP’s appeal to students. “Attacking the right to vote is attacking a symptom, not the problem itself,” Sunderland says.
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Your assumption is incorrect. The Republicans that were elected were sent to Raleigh to reform it as well as fix the spending abuses of the Democrats. Reform is needed to safeguard the voting process and remove threats of fraud by ACORN and other groups. How can you make an outrageous statement that the legislation is designed to preserve their power? Do you have any basis for that statement or is your bias showing?
What is the meaning of the disrespectful comments on the members of the US Supreme Court? I reckon if you don’t like their decisions, you consider them to radicals.
There’s plenty of reform that needs to happen, Mr. Burns, but focussing on disenfranchising voters who tend to vote for the other party is not the reform ANY voters went to the polls to deal with this last November. Take a clue from the pres of the college GOP club, Frank.
Trolls have fun taking umbrage at simple facts – but in fact, ACORN has disbanded (after a fraudulent video went viral) and voter fraud is statistically MUCH less common than vote fraud. So pulling the boogeyman out of the box doesn’t work any more.
Where’s the sauce for the gander, Frank? Where’s your patriotic umbrage when a corporation that can give you a receipt for an ATM transaction says they can’t verify your vote was counted accurately? And I recall that when court decisions were swinging the other way, I heard a lot of “disrespect” about “activist judges”.
Stand down, Mr. Burns. Go back to the O’Really Factor website and get more talking points… and some actual facts, instead of just sound and fury signifying nothing.
Has ACORN really disbanded or have they just changed names? http://americancourthouse.com/2010/04/02/acorn-disbandedor-rebranded.html So it is premature to celebrate their demise.
Peach, does it make you feel better to refer to me as a troll? Do you think that will cause me to not speak out against unjustified remarks? I have noticed that those on the left use the tactic of denigrating those who don’t agree with their utopian vision. You fall right into that juvenile trap. There is no reason to why people can’t remain civil. I suppose when you develop a made up ID it’s easy to do that.
I don’t understand why Democracy NC is against the Republican proposal to prevent voter fraud. Surely we can implement the same safeguards for voting that we use for cashing a check.