Stormin' Norman wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 12:12:07 -0400, Alek
wrote:

And the Republican party's history of attempting to prevent minority
voters from voting?

The above statement is blatantly absurd. It was the party of Lincoln,
the Republicans, who championed the cause and freed the slaves. It
was the party of Ulysses S. Grant, again the Republican party, which
introduced and ratified the 15th amendment to the Constitution of the
United States of America which granted suffrage (the right to vote in
public, political elections) to African Americans.

And the modern Republican party is about as far from those ideals as
it's possible to be. They specialize in gerrymandering districts to
minimize the influence of minority voters. They look for new and
innovative ways to disenfranchise minorities and the poor.

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Tim Slattery
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