Even corporations oppose voter suppression
By Bill Knight
More than 100 leaders from airlines, manufacturers, the NFL and retailers on Saturday met online to discuss action to fight state bills they see as discriminatory. Corporations including Coca Cola, Delta Air Lines and UPS are considering delaying investments in states trying to suppress the voter or curtailing campaign contributions.
Recent struggles concerning the right to vote in free and fair elections – key to self-governance – include the U.S. Supreme Court on March 2 hearing arguments about an Arizona law limiting voting access; the House on March 3 passing the “For the People” Act (HR 1) protecting voting; and President Biden on March 7 signing an executive order to promote voting access.
Defend voting rights!
By Editor posted on March 17, 2021
The former Republican president may be absent from the corporate media these days, but his racist and pro-rich ideas live on in all reactionary political institutions and organizations. This ideology flourishes in the Republican Party’s current assault on the universal right to vote.
We are well aware of the limitations of elections in capitalist society. In the United States, election winners, even locally, are nearly always from the two major capitalist parties. Big money dominates. The billionaire-owned corporate media enforce pro-capitalist ideology and trash anyone promising even mild social reforms.
The U.S. Constitution itself imposes inequality by disproportionately empowering states with small populations. It traps the presidential contest in the Electoral College. It fills Senate seats with the rich and reactionary.
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Protecting Voting Rights for All Civil rights lawyer Myrna Pérez made the case, in a Thursday night talk for Bowdoin, that the protection and enhancement of voting rights must be the bedrock for all other political projects.
Myrna Pérez is the director of the Brennan Center for Justice s Voting Rights and Election Program and a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School.
With a large portion of her audience in mind, Pérez made several appeals to students to get involved in bolstering our democracy by ensuring every vote is counted and everyone has equal and unhindered access to the polls.