In critical swing states with Republican governors and election officials, laws are being made to require a voter ID in order to vote in the Presidential election. This is a blatant effort to prevent certain groups of voters from voting, for example house-bound elderly people to whom it would be difficult to get the ID in time, or poor inner-city voters.

I have noticed the increasing amount of republican lawmakers and who have felt the need to suppress the vote or outright try to make unsubstantiated claims to get President Obama off the ballet. I think this is unamerican and veiled racism. If Mitt is so presidential and worried about the people of this country then he needs to stand up to this fringe of his party.

If there is no paper trail how can the vote be verified?

We need to make sure votes are counted fairly with a paper trail. We cannot trust the voting machines.

Rhode Island residents are urging the state Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Senator Michael McCaffrey to allow a pivotal gay marriage law to move out of his committee and onto a general vote. Rhode Island has been primed for a vote on gay marriage, yet McCaffrey has stalled the process. As a lesbian living in Rhode Island, I am ashamed of RI's current laws on gay marriage and rights especially in light of the rights provided to our closest neighboring states. RI gay and lesbian couples are currently second class citizens and we deserve the same rights and responsibilities as everyone else. Moving this vote forward will be a step in the right direction to correct the current inequality in Rhode Island.

Idaho requires photo ID to vote, but voters can sign an affidavit verifying their identity in lieu of producing photo ID. Votes cast with an affidavit are to be treated as a valid vote rather than a provisional ballot. People at all polls should be informed of this right. All poll workers should be informed of this right and tell all voters at the poll.

The state of Arkansas needs to stop paperless voting and implement paper records for each vote. We need to see proof/evidence of each vote.

In an attempt in Iowa to suppress the rights of voters in a last minute bid to turn Iowa Red, Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz passed several questionable rules earlier this summer. A judge has temporarily "frozen" these laws without actually ruling on their merits. The judge stated: The rules "have in fact created confusion and mistrust in the voter registration process," she wrote, and "have created fear that new citizens will lose their right to vote and/or be charged with a felony and caused some qualified voters to feel deterred from even registering to vote." PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION to IOWA ATTORNEY GENERAL TOM MILLER and GOVERNOR BRANSTEAD INFORMING THEM THAT YOU ARE WATCHING THIS ISSUE AND WILL VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE IN NOVEMBER, AND THAT VOTER SUPPRESSION IS NOT ACCEPTABLE IN IOWA OR AMERICA.

Waukegan has a Daytime truancy law that states no child is allowed in public during school hours, unless they are with a parent or school official. You may not give your child permission to be out in public for any reason without you, and according to Public schools you also do not have the right to take them out of school unless the are sick or there is a religious holiday, effectively taking your rights as a parent away and denying children their 1st amendment rights.

This Petition is about JUSTICE and FREEDOM in the United States, a nation beset by fascistic power-grabbing cabals involving violators of law, the US Constitution and international conventions on human rights, such as Bush eminence grise Karl Rove, Governor Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania, Judge Dale Wells of California, and Judges Kline and Tylwalk of Pennsylvania. The international community should insist that President Obama pardon Don Siegelman immediately, and appoint a FIST Prosecutor for any States in which the people request an emergency bypass around the atherosclerotic heart of Government, the US Justice Department.

Does religious freedom mean that individuals are free to follow their own consciences, faith or morals in their conduct of their lives? Or does it mean that individuals who sign the paychecks and provide health insurance benefits as part of compensation for work performed get to impose their religious beliefs on their employees as a condition of employment? This seems a very flawed understanding of religious freedom to me. I oppose the efforts of evangelical christians or others who seek to impose their religious beliefs on those who don't share them and call it religious freedom. Such actions are the opposite of religious freedom. So when Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday challenging the federal mandate that they provide their employees no-cost access to contraception that conflicts with their religious beliefs, I consider it an attack on the religious freedom of their employees, not a defense of the religious freedom of the company's owners. I decline to patronize such a business. When they drop their lawsuit and learn to mind their own business and stay out of the bedrooms of their employees, they will get my business back.

Having a legal marriage is our constitutional right. All men are created equal. We have the right to pursue happiness. There are many real legal and economic benefits of marriage that gays and lesbians are denied because they are not allowed to marry. What are the legal rights and benefits of marriage? Answer: According to Lambda Legal Defense, more than 1,400 legal rights are conferred upon heterosexual married couples in the United States. By not being allowed to marry, gays and lesbians are denied these rights. Even in the state of Massachusetts, the only US state with legalized gay marriage, most of the benefits of marriage do not apply, because the Defense of Marriage Act states that the federal government only recognizes marriage as "a legal union of one man and one woman as husband and wife". Here are some of the legal rights that married couples have and gays and lesbians are denied: Joint parental rights of children Joint adoption Status as "next-of-kin" for hospital visits and medical decisions Right to make a decision about the disposal of loved ones remains Immigration and residency for partners from other countries Crime victims recovery benefits Domestic violence protection orders Judicial protections and immunity Automatic inheritance in the absence of a will Public safety officers death benefits Spousal veterans benefits Social Security Medicare Joint filing of tax returns Wrongful death benefits for surviving partner and children Bereavement or sick leave to care for partner or children Child support Joint Insurance Plans Tax credits including: Child tax credit, Hope and lifetime learning credits Deferred Compensation for pension and IRAs Estate and gift tax benefits Welfare and public assistance Joint housing for elderly Credit protection Medical care for survivors and dependents of certain veterans These are just a few of the 1400 state and federal benefits that gays and lesbians are denied by not being able to marry. Most of these benefits cannot be privately arranged or contracted for within the legal system.