Comments on: Educators vow to fight voter suppression

By: Norman Howell

Norman Howell — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:01:12 +0000

Erik and James have some valid points that totally lack any real support or backing. Our National history is of mostly European background but today has shifted to Middle Eastern, Asian (China, India and many others) and Latino (South Americans). Now that we have many people of different ethnic origins and backgrounds in our mix it becomes threatening to many of European ancestry. They look different, speak with an accent, eat different foods, have different religions–aaaahhh! they are not “us”. So we set about to make sure they do not upset our European apple carts. Buy our goods with their money but you cannot get involved in “our” political process. You just might change it. So attempts to limit their ability cast a vote in any election is the agenda of “preventing voter fraud.” Show us that voter fraud exists on any scale that requires such limiting measures. As FDR stated, “You can lie to all the people part of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot lie to all the people all the time.” Voters need to take a good look at all the political advertising to discern the distortions and outright lies being hammered at us to make us believe something that just is not there in real life. Voter registration limits are just the tip of the iceberg. And oh yes, people do work outside of their real job to care about each other and make this a better country to live in. They do not go home, grab a beer and watch TV all evening.

By: Erik

Erik — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:42:06 +0000

I am so glad I retired and no longer have to deal with NEA drivel. Look at the words used in the headline of this article. “Voter suppression” is the leftist I-need-more-illegal-aliens-to-prop-up-my-party code instead of what the truth is. (I’m sorry, I should have substituted “undocumented workers” for “illegal aliens” so that I could be in step with leftist propaganda instead of telling the truth.) What most Americans want is a fair and legal election. The best way for this to be accomplished is to ensure that we have registered legal citizens voting, as many as we possibly can. Therefore, I encourage the far left wing (and any part of the political spectrum) to help get voters registered, and perhaps especially those who they believe are, according to the article, less likely to be registered – “people of color, the poor, students, and the elderly” – and anyone else they can find who has not registered instead of making this into an attempt to demonize those who are trying to keep the election legal also known as “radical conservative groups” in the above article.

By: James Heath

James Heath — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:27:56 +0000

I used to live in Connecticut. I voted in the town hall of the small town I lived in. Everyone knew everyone. Nevertheless, I was required to announce my name in a full, loud voice when I presented myself to the poll watchers. Then came a year when I was asked for my driver’s license, which, of course, included my picture. No explanation. No difficulty. Here’s what I don’t remember: the Democrat party having a great hissy fit about how this was going to suppress the vote. I wonder at all if the absence of principle among Connecticut activists that year in Connecticut had anything to do with Connecticut’s being a Red state? And by the way, all the teachers in the article who have discovered their raison d’etre as voting rights activists – are they no longer teaching? Or are they giving their best efforts to contributing to making fraudulent voting just a bit easier?