http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/21/democrats-take-charge-push-in-50-states-for-voting-reforms/
The GOP may have out-foxed itself on the voting rights issue. Having maneuvered for years to achieve their dream of a conservative U.S. Supreme Court, they were thrilled with the SCOTUS decision in June that seemed to gut enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. What they probably didn’t anticipate was that the Democratic Party would be spurred to find a solution, and fast — a fact they might have tuned into were they not so allergic to the word “solutions.”
Last week, a 50-state initiative was rolled out by a new nonprofit organization run by Michael Sargeant, the executive director of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. The group takes back language co-opted by conservatives, naming itself American Values First. The intent of the group is to push voting reforms that will make it a whole lot easier for all who are eligible to vote.
are the republicans seeing another GOP by the GOP (GREAT OL PLAN) get put to the test, remember it failed and floundered two time in a row, they keep trying same things over and over even a mouse will avoid the trap it its caught even once, maybe science needs to implant mice brains into republicans can't do any worse.
First of all, Democrats will push states to adopt legislation that requires all elections to be conducted by mail. Colorado finalized such a law early this year. Washington and Oregon already hold all-mail elections. The result in those two states was stunning. Before the change in their laws, both were considered swing states. Since enactment of vote-by-mail legislation, they’ve become solidly blue.
they of course have to do something about congress's effort to kill the USPS as we know it or the corruption they ae doing now will be like playing marbles, can you imagine how much harm they can do make NSA look like toddlers.
Secondly, Dems will push for states to enact universal registration, putting the responsibility for registration on state governments — for instance, by tying automatic registration of eligible voters to issuing drivers’ licenses. Such a bill failed by just one vote in Oregon last year. Rep. Lew Frederick, D-Portland, will reintroduce it in January, 2014. He said:
there must be a very good chance of this countering their effort to suppress or they wouldn't be all up in a tizzy.”It’s a pretty simple bill. Unlike some of the Republican efforts, there’s actually a problem to be solved. This is not something we’re making up.”
