Voter suppression

This topic is especially disturbing to me as I feel like it puts us in the same camp as those "democratic" countries who just *happen* (through a variety of threats no doubt) to elect the same dictator year after year.

The entire campaign process in which the candidates barely tell the truth and their respective campaigns spread blatant lies is really horrible already. I guess we've just learned to deal with it via things like post-debate fact-finding teams who report on which statements are true or stretched. I'm not sure why we let this happen, but anyway, at least there are sources of political truth and enough reporters working hard to hammer it out for us.

Now, voter suppression is a whole different game. To me this is a much more serious violation of our basic voter rights. Whether or not ex-felons should vote is just one small part of this problem. More seriously, regular people are purposely tricked or pressured into not voting. Hitting close to home, the 2006 VA state election has now been linked to obvious voter suppression with people receiving threatening phone calls, deceptive phone calls, and deceptive mailings to "encourage" non-voting.

In this election, the VA college student voting is clearly a problem. Now, in desperation, McCain's campaign is blasting ACORN for voter registration fraud. While this is a valid problem, based on history, registration fraud rarely results in actual fraud at the polls. Additionally, why would they be fighting a non-profit, non-partisan social justice group. Obviously, they are suppressing likely Obama voters. However, it's ridiculously cruel to continue to lay the big hand of conservative wealth again and again to strike down anything that helps the people they abuse. This organization has been around for 40 years helping people gain access to their right to vote in addition to organizing low-moderate income individuals to change things that concern them, like minimum wage, schools, fair-housing, all those things that people need!

Our country is so on track for an uprising from the low-moderate income workers. Maybe just maybe a democratic white house could push it off a little longer.