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Posted by caraher on March 2, 2008, at 9:30:32
In an effort to suppress the vote from this historically black college, Prairie View A&M students were assigned a polling place 7 miles from campus. Hundreds of students organized to walk together to the polls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvDAiWWuvRg
Note that they've taken over one direction of an interstate!
Winning by keeping those unlikely to support you is a disgraceful tactic well-honed by certain Americans who fear "too much" democracy. In my own state, two simultaneous moves by the powers that be were to require government-issued photo ID in order to vote (out of concerned for a form of voter fraud that a state official had to concede in court had never been alleged in even a single instance) and to "streamline" the state government by closing many offices of the agency that handles driver's licenses and state ID cards - not so coincidentally in cities with large black populations.
The video shows an inspiring, positive response to so much ugly, cynical politics...
Posted by Sigismund on March 2, 2008, at 14:36:18
In reply to beautiful sight, posted by caraher on March 2, 2008, at 9:30:32
It *is* a beautiful sight.
The previous government 'reformed and improved' our electoral act by taking the right to vote off prisoners, and closing the rolls on the day the election was called. The act was given some cynical title like you might have expected in the former USSR. They thought the hundred thousand or so votes that would otherwise go to the ALP might as well not be allowed to.
So I'm impressed when people just get jack of it.
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