“Voting Rights Act is Challenged as Cure the South Has Outgrown” cries the New York Times front page headline from February 18, 2013. In my diagnosis, not only does the South remain sick while retaining a race and class based system of voter suppression, the rest of the nation including my home state of Ohio is infected with the same illness.
The U.S. election system is broken, but you’d never know how bad it really is if you read the Columbus Dispatch. Citing a recent Pew Charitable Trust study, the Republican-owned paper stresses that Ohio ranks 29th out of 50 states in terms of worst voting practices.
Find out what happens when Mr. Husted goes to Washington. He mingles
with a coterie of e-voting machine vendors and listens to the words of
NBC’s Chuck Todd who mocks election transparency and embraces
faith-based voting.
Free Press Second Saturday Salon
Saturday February 9, 2013 – 6:30pm-midnight
1021 E. Broad St. (east side door, parking in front or rear)
Join progressive friends for food, fun, drinks, music, art, socializing and networking. Presentations on efforts to stop fracking in Ohio including March 6 Statehouse event planning, a Socialist Feminist group speaker, and more.
truth@freepress.org
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Bob Fitrakis and Cliff Arnebeck Discuss Election Integrity Via Chuck Todd, NBC, U.S. Election Integrity
Throughout these past dozen years, the GOP “suppress and shift” election theft strategy has focused on two main tactics:massive disenfranchisement of citizens (mostly non-white, poor and young) suspected of voting Democratic; and the manipulation of electronic voting machines and tabulating devices with software capable of flipping thousands of votes with a few late night keystrokes.
Bob Fitrakis and Mary Jane Borden discuss the new initative to amend the Ohio Constitution so that people may use cannabis for medical illnesses and use hemp for food, fuel, paper, and other uses.
Action Alert:
City Council will be finalizing its budget over the coming days … please send a note evidencing your support for public access to the following member at your earliest opportunity. Also, please ask others in your circle to do the same.
Join your progressive friends for food, fun, music, art, and political networking or just socializing! Presentation from Green Party City Council candidate Steve Johnson. Music by Connie Harris. Let us know your plans for the new year.
It was inevitable. Those of you who have been wondering about so-called “chemtrails” need to read the December 11, 2012 article in Britain’s Daily Mail. The headline screams “Could we re-freeze the Arctic? Scientists suggest radical solution to global warming.”