Screwing more voters

Wikipedia is following the latest nitwit to try to screw up voter rights: Talk show host Laura Ingraham, who encouraged listeners to flood voter problem hotlines.

We've also got discouragment efforts from a goddamned cartoon strip, Mallard Fillmore, here and here.

A discussion on Daily Kos offers some radical, but perhaps worthwhile, ideas. One poster pasted in a picture of the coffins of U.S. soldiers flying to the Dover mortuary: "Arlington National Cemetery is full to bursting with those who paid for our right to vote. NO, it is not funny."

Another post:

I've been thinking that perhaps the only way to end voter supression tactics is to seriously up the criminal penalties. It is, in essence, a form of treason, undermining our system of government. If you can disenfranchise people, do a couple years in jail, then come out set for life by the party you put in power, there's no real penalty.

I'd say 20 years is a good starting point. Make sure that when they get out of jail the people who put them in power have long forgotten about them.

--- The path to hell is paved with good intentions. Bush invaded Iraq based on good intentions. Thus we are staying the course on the path to hell.

by sterno

Another poster argued that voter disenfranchisement amounts to sedition.

For whatever party, for whatever candidate, for whatever reason, efforts to strip away the right to vote are abominable.