In this article, low-income americans are being denied their right to vote in the upcomming 2008 presidential elections. State welfare offices across the country are not helping the low-wage Americans by not giving public assistance, even though it is required by federal law. "It's huge. It's another area where the administration is failing us," said Donna Brazile, chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute.
This is a blantant act of violating the rights of the people. The government should do everything in its power to help its citizens vote. Even if people are uneducated or aren't informed well enough about politics, they are still entitled to their vote. This sort of censorship or will greatly affect the popular vote in the upcomming elections by denying those who want to vote for Clinton because shes a woman or those who want to vote for Obama because he is African-American.
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This is unfair. It doesn't matter how much money you have, if you are a citizen, you have the right to vote. Bush is just being retarded and selfsh.
I agree it is very unfair. There really is no financial requirement to vote, so thease people have just as much right as the rest of us.
Denying somebody the right to vote because of their financial status is severely wrong. By doing so, it is almost as if the country is undoing all of the progress it has made with civil rights in the last one hundred years.
I strongly agree with your opinion. This type of censorship is outragious, and unconstitutional, if in fact these would be voters aren't as educated as the rest of the voters, is this not why we have our "wonderful" electoral college? Now the government is trying to deny the right to vote completely. It almost sends a message to those that are underprivleged, that you can do nothing, not even vote for the leader of your country in order to help releave you of your current predicaments.
suffrage! People have the right to vote and they should be supported to. Every single vote counts!
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