know. this is about evolving as human beings. wh what do we want? do we want democracy, people to participate? people have to feel that in the fiber of their being. there may be an answer to that question. do we want people to participate, bill? i just wanted to show here our map about the strictest voter i.d. laws in eight states, alabama, kansas, mississippi, rhode island, south carolina, tennessee, texas, wisconsin, some of these preclarence states, others not preclearance states. but all of them saying, maybe we actually don t want people to participate. we would like to limit the number of people who can participate to just folks who have photo i.d.s, which we know will impact at least 21 million people who don t have i.d.s. that s right. this all strikes me as a solution for which there is no known problem. right. voter fraud, right? voter fraud, are we hearing sensational incidence of voter fraud? in a couple of places maybe. it isn t a widespread issue.
birth control fewer uror that t notion that we are now seeing and what felt like to me, this young woman, a law student from georgetown, it s not even so much her testimony but the attacks on her testimony. it s not even the march but it s the attack on the march ors that pique the consciousness, the sense there s humiliation, literally blood on bloody sunday and this case we have a young woman being attacked and sort of the willingness or the ability of protest for us to see how ugly the repression is. well, i think the job of activists is to really bring out into the public eye, as bill has said, exactly what is going on. otherwise, you never are going to deal with a problem unless it s exposed. even in the north, when we marched in howard beach or whatever, people never thought there was racism in the north. i knew if we went and marched in these neighborhoods and they threw bananas and watermelons at us, people wouldn t like me for
in ohio the same deal, republicans passed something called senate bill 5 last year to strip union rights in ohio. ohio voters repealed it at the ballot box in november before it could go in effect. they repealed it overwhelmingly by a huge margin. in maine, again, in an overwhelming vote to recall what the republicans did there, mainers got rid of same day registration, got rid of the law precluding same day registration for voting. same day registration for voting is something mainers were doing for four decades. the republicans got rid of it and mainers gave itself back the right of same day voter registration that the republicans elected in 2010 had taken away. also in michigan, perhaps the most radical proposal to emerge from the big red tide of the 2010 election, rick snyder s emergency manager law, giving him unprecedented power to in
governor. a lot of people thought it could not be done, but it looks like it s going to be on the ballot. in ohio the same deal, republicans passed something called senate bill 5 last year to strip union rights in ohio. ohio voters repealed it at the ballot box in november before it could go in effect. they repealed it overwhelmingly by a huge margin. in maine, again, in an overwhelming vote to recall what the republicans did there, mainers got rid of same day registration, got rid of the law precluding same day registration for voting. same day registration for voting is something mainers were doing for four decades. the republicans got rid of it and mainers gave itself back the right of same day voter registration that the republicans elected in 2010 had taken away. also in michigan, perhaps the most radical proposal to emerge from the big red tide of the 2010 election, rick snyder s emergency manager law, giving him unprecedented power to in
republicans passed something called senate bill 5 last year to strip union rights in ohio. ohio voters repealed it at the ballot box in november before it could go in effect. they repealed it overwhelmingly by a huge margin. in maine, again, in an overwhelming vote to recall what the republicans did there, mainers got rid of same day registration, got rid of the law precluding same day registration for voting. same day registration for voting is something mainers were doing for four decades. the republicans got rid of it and mainers gave itself back the right of same day voter registration that the republicans elected in 2010 had taken away. also in michigan, perhaps the most radical proposal to emerge from the big red tide of the 2010 election, rick snyder s emergency manager law, giving him unprecedented power to in effect overrule local elections, to get rid of local officials to make it not matter who you vote