To: The Honorable Eric Holder, Esq., United States Attorney
States' Voter Suppression
Much has been done in the state houses of some very critical states to affect their voting outcomes in our November presidential election. I see very little making the news about these new voting laws from state to state on the part of national media, nor remedial review by the U. S. Justice Department to slap down the obvious impediments to registered voters in these states having access to their polls to cast their vote for President of the United States this year. Florida has purged their rolls, much like what happened during the George Bush election, to ensure the desired outcome. And we all know what happened in the 2002 election in Florida.
Despite being ordered to cease and desist this activity by U. S. Attorney Eric Holder, the governor of Florida continued his activity in purging the voter rolls with impunity! Florida and Pennsylvania are very important states!
Likewise, Ohio has decided that the three days prior to the election, when black churchgoers usually conduct what they refer to as "Souls to the Polls" and vote early after church on the Sunday before the Tuesday elections, in heavily black demographics early voting will not be permitted. However, in dominantly white Republican voting blocks, early voting will go on as usual.
There are many other states that are prohibiting the photo ID of college students who live out of state are being forbidden to vote this fall.
Many elderly people who cannot even obtain their birth certificates (required to obtain a photo ID from their Division of Motor Vehicles) are just simply out of luck ~~ they cannot vote this fall, even though many have voted in every election in their adult lives!
I hope that if you agree that our United States Attorney, Eric Holder, should verify that these states' voting changes are in compliance with the 1995 Voting Rights laws, and are indeed discriminatory in the extreme on the face of it, will ask the High Court of the United States to review these states activities on a state-by-state basis to ensure that willing registered voters are permitted to exercise their RIGHT TO VOTE in November.
If you agree, please add your signature to this petition and forward it to your friends so that it can be timely presented to Attorney Holder to express our hope that these states not be permitted to bar voters from the polls!
Why is this important?
In recent weeks and months, we are hearing more and more states are making it exceedingly difficult for registered voters to be permitted to vote in the November presidential election. Some states, such as Pennsylvania, have come right out and said the purpose was to ensure the election of Mitt Romney (although the stated reason for their actions was to prevent voter fraud.