The Power of Your Vote
While I pay attention to politics (still), in the past four years it has become so vile that I rarely comment on it. But as I was reading an article tonight on The Huffington Post about voter ID laws, a few lines caught my attention that I just had to share. The link to the article is below. Read and ask yourself WHY. If the race of our President is not the issue. If there is not a deliberate and powerful effort underway to diminish the rights of people of color to vote then please explain this amazing phenomena to me. Seriously. I welcome a rational, logical explination. In fact, my heart prays for it. Your vote is power. Don’t ever doubt it.
Between 1965 and 2010, nearly half a century, only eight challenges to [the provision] were filed in court,” Holder said. “By contrast, in the last two years alone, we’ve seen nine lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of that provision.”
Voter ID laws, which requires voters to present official government identification before they cast a ballot in an elections, have become a hot-button issue this election cycle. Since 2008, voter ID laws have either gone into effect or are pending in at least 11 states. Five other states had measures that were eventually vetoed by governors. Some form of photo ID laws are now on the books in at least 30 states.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/30/eric-holder-voting-rights-cbc_n_1556955.html
