TN Citizen Action Releases Statement on the Failure of Legislators to Protect Voting Rights
April 10, 2012 by Mary Mancini
Filed under Fair Elections, Recent Blog Posts
Nashville, Tenn. (April 10, 2012) — Tennessee Citizen Action released the following statement on the failure of legislators to repeal the photo ID to vote law:
“We’re extremely disappointed that instead of protecting the fundamental right to vote guaranteed us – not once, but twice – by the Tennessee Constitution, Republicans are taking it away,” said Mary Mancini, executive director of Tennessee Citizen Action, “The idea of ‘voter fraud’ is a fraud and they have repeatedly refused to present evidence to the contrary. Here’s what’s really going on: Republican politicians all over the country are unnecessarily rewriting our election laws to keep students, people of color, the working poor, and seniors from voting against them. And they’re manufacturing a problem to explain it away.
“The right to vote is a fundamental American right. GOP-led barriers to voting are unnecessary and extraordinarily harmful to our democratic process. We’ve never solved anything in this country with less democracy, and we still can’t.”
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I agree that voter id laws are being passed by many states to suppress the vote. I believe that these laws should be repealed but if they are not going to be repealed I believe conscious members of society should work together to help ensure all American adults who are eligible to vote have the proper id to do so. I want to help!