The Right Votes

As a child I marched to get rid of State laws that stopped Black and poor people from voting- primarily in Southern States- Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia come to mind .  Now it is Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida  but the idea is the same- take Black and poor voters off the voting rolls and  Republicans  win-- in the case of those States add up to virtual certainty in November for Romney.   I have endured one stolen election in recent years when Bush lost to Gore but the Florida votes were not properly counted and the next thing you know we have 2 wars, hundreds of thousands of deaths, and a few trillion $ wasted in the process-- so these election laws matter.  Romney has this way it seems, to buy the election is bad enough, but to take away the vote from American citizens: including elderly people,  combat veterans, or families that lost their children in our wasteful wars - if they can't produce an official ID-  seems heartless but more to the point reflects a profound unworthiness to lead a Democracy.