Republicans are pushing through voter ID and other laws intended to reduce voting among people of color and others more likely to vote Democratic. Democrats are fighting back for obvious reasons. But what if you can’t vote in the first place because you don’t have, for example, a voter ID?
But What If I Can’t Vote in the First Place?
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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As if one could actually pull oneself up by their own bootstraps from within this system rigged to prevent this.
Desperate people do desperate things ranging from taking jobs that will kill oneself or others, to becoming entrepreneurial criminals, both inside and outside of lawful injustice.
The Democrats like portraying themselves as noble defenders of our civil rights on this issue, but the “For the People Act” contains provisions that would further hobble the efforts of new parties to gain momentum, by quintupling the amount of money they need to raise on their own before they can receive federal matching funds, (and entirely eliminating some federal help for small parties) and also a provision that raises the amount of money a national party can donate to a local race from $5K to $100M, thus making it much more difficult for insurgent outsiders to challenge the party’s chosen candidate. The quote in your cartoon should be “Vote Democratic and we’ll let everyone vote for the candidates we want them to vote for.”
my source: https://www.gp.org/hr1