This just in from our friend and hero Jonathan Adler:
June 5 Tuesday 7pm, Laguna Woods
Concerned Citizens “Voter Suppression Laws: The New Jim Crow,” talk plus Q&A by Kathay Feng, Exec. Dir. Calif. Common Cause.
Posing as needed to “stop voter fraud,” lots of recent laws and practices of many kinds have been passed and taken across the country to deny citizens’ right to vote. They include requiring just a few types of official photo IDs to register and/or vote; tighter residency and other limits on registering, early voting and vote-by-mail; big, late purges of rolls for alleged non-citizenship or prior felony that voters must disprove quickly or be dropped; dis-franchisement of a lot more prior felons who served their time; etc.
All occur in states the GOP took over or again fully controlled (both houses + governorship) after 2010 elections; none in Dem or split control states; and all those laws and practices hit millions harder in demographics tending to vote Dem – racial, ethnic and language minorities, students, other young folk, elderly, disabled, poor, inner-city non-drivers, etc.
These laws and practices threaten democracy itself as much as Citizens United, super PACs, limitless secret money, etc. Come hear an expert tell those attacks’ details; US Justice Dept. and civil rights/liberties orgs’ defenses, in courts of law and public opinion, and what you can do.
6:30pm refreshments; members free, guests $3. Info contact Jonathan, 949-581-2178, LawGuruLaguna@yahoo.com.
Clubhouse 7, 24111 Moulton Pkwy, Laguna Woods, CA 92637 (outside any gate). Click here for GoogleMap “pinned” to venue.
Click here for event flyer.
www.dscc.org/act4?action_KEY=509&track= SEM_GS_Voter%20 Suppressionv3-S_VS-law_voter%20suppression%20laws_25896330092
https://www.aclu.org/secure/sem-stand-aclu-protect-every-citizens-right-vote?ms=gad_SEM_Google_ Search-Voting%20Rights_Voting%20Rights%20Laws_voter%20rights%20law_b_14261121262
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Interesting paradox!…. coming from a moron mongoloid.
According to the 2010 census, there’s 24 Blacks living in Laguna Woods.
I think the folks there are concerned about this issue in the entire nation, which does contain well over 24 blacks.
Should they not be?
According to the times I’ve attended, people come from far away to attend talks in Laguna Woods. Not from the Reconstruction Era south, admittedly, but still an appreciable distance.
I’d meant to add two things:
Cathay Feng and Common Cause deal with the entire nation, which, again, has many more than 24 black people. She just happens to be speaking at lilywhite LW Tuesday evening.
And also, even though we’re using the comparison to “Jim Crow,” which inspired my choice of offensive image, this voter disfranchisement doesn’t only affect blacks but also young students, old people, poor people, and Latinos. So everyone should be concerned, even the retired white liberal bourgeousie of LW.
The New Jim Crow is actually mass Black incarceration (which Obama has been a failure in addressing) Read Michelle Alexander’s book on it.
Everyone should be concerned about that *and* voter suppression (they are related, of course) I think that perhaps the informational talk would be better suited to take place in OC communities that stand to be most effected.
I also took that opportunity to point out the demographics of Laguna Woods as an example of de facto residential segregation in OC. 24 Blacks? Appalling.
Just sayin’
Ditto on that mass Black incarceration. And you know who speaks out frequently about that? UCI Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. And you know who is a frequent speaker at these LW events? UCI Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.
GSR — it’s a retirement community that doesn’t allow kids to reside there. That may have something to do with it, given that multi-generational households are more common in minority communities (in part due to that massive incarceration you mention.)
Retirement communities always possess a ‘strange’ dialectic. They are quite meaningful and active (including civic engagements like the one listed in the post) but at the same time reproduce exclusion.
Being that, its good that a woman of color is going there to speak about voter suppression which will effect the elderly. But with the rubric of Jim Crow, that information has to come northward too, where communities of color are more present.
Sounds like a waste of air.
In fact, it seems to me that being on Tuesday night and being targeted to the progressive left who will believe anything, it will be after the polls close that those dolts will realize they missed they chance to vote.
We have already voted, rightwing dolt.
And I suppose you won’t care about voter suppression until they start disenfranchising old white-bearded toothless Vietnam vets.
Maybe we should just go back to the old ways.
Old white property owners with white breads and no teeth and no others.
If you have no teeth, white bread is a reasonable choice. Or is that what you meant?
With no teeth, words sound diff. and smoe tmies its hrad to unredsatnd waht I siad.
With each state making its own rules as to voting, with some gound rules laid down by the fed’s, (Voter rights act, etc) and in California the responsibility being passed down to each county.
Seems to me that makes it much closer to control by the people.
But I can understand the desire to make it a top down system used in some foreign countries, where 99 percent of the people vote and they all vote for the current dictator.
If you want more citizens to vote, get rid of term limits, then the people will need to get up off they dead asses for a change.
I shouldn’t have said “until they start disenfranchising old white-bearded toothless Vietnam vets.”
Most of the people who fit that description aren’t as lucky as you, and already can’t vote because they’re homeless.
But you know that.
Homeless people CAN vote. They can register at a shelter where they can receive mail. I’ll bet that Dwight Smith would know the details — and may even be able to let people use his shelter’s address!
As for you, cook — if you really can’t see the difference between a top down voting system that preserves civil rights and civil liberties and a Stalinist or Saddamist (&c) voting system, that explains much.
Homeless people, like the rest of us, vote where we/they live, not necessary where our mail is delivered.
Hint: If you go to the polls to vote and look at the address index, you can pick out the homeless. (no house number, example SW Ross & Civic Center)
Of the hundreds of homeless at the OC civic center, there may be a dozen, not more than two dozen homeless registered to vote. And of those 1 to 2 dozen, maybe 3 to 5 go to the polls to vote. (I have never seen VBM on any homeless voter signature line in the pink roster.
One of the arguments in the links that Vern has was about college students not being able to vote at school. That is because you vote where you live not where you go to school. Most college legal residence is their parents home.
Greg, a top down voting system requires a change in the Constitution.
College students are allowed to vote at school — or have been, until states have closed us down. Giving them the choice of where to register makes sense, as that is where the brunt of their political activity will take place. Note that Mitt Romney likewise has the choice to decide at which home he will register.
L lopez found out the hard way about voting where you live (Santa Ana) and not where you want to vote (Los Angeles)
Romney will vote where he lives, as will President Obama (Washington DC)
Where does he live? He lives in more than one place — if he really isn’t a robot, of course.