April 2, 2021 New Orleans Georgia has managed to grab a lot of attention as the first state to successfully torpedo voting rights after the 2020 election, and goodness knows it deserves all the shame, derision, and boycotts that are coming its way. Reporters for the New York Times listed …
Tag: voting rights
Restoring Voting Rights to Former Felons
March 17, 2021 New Orleans In these times when a number of states are trying to curtail voting rights for their citizens, the governor of Virginia made some news by speeding up the process for former felons to vote in that state. By making the review of a former prisoner’s status immediately after release …
Using ACORN as the Smokescreen for Voter Suppression
Salina, KN Here’s a change of pace while we’re wending out way from Wyoming dry lands to Louisiana wetland. A piece by John Atlas and Peter Drier ran in Salon that is worth sharing it seems to me to get some context in what is now contemporary history of voter suppression since this pig is …
Is Demographics Destiny in a Democracy?
New Orleans On a radio interview I conducted on Friday discussing the impact of the DOMA and Prop 8 decisions, the young man poignantly spoke about the isolation of young homosexuals in rural areas, compared to the relative freedom in the cities, even conservative cities. I then noticed a map in the Wall Street Journal …
Pigs Flying in Florida as Even Republicans Call for Voting Reforms
New Orleans Yes, it snows in July in Florida. Yes, pigs are on the runway in Miami getting ready to fly, and it is not because of loosening travel restrictions in Cuba, but because finally after more than a dozen years of being the case study for anti-democratic vote suppression and election chaos, even Republican governor …