1.4 The Right to Vote

1. The original Constitution does not guarantee everyone or anyone the right to vote.
2.  All the amendments about voting are limits on what the states can do instead of allowing everyone to vote.
3. They needed 2/3 of the states to ratify it so they thought it would infringe on the states too much and it wouldn't get passed.
4. The forms of voter disenfranchisement are growing in this country.
5. He mentions voter ID laws, draconian purging of voter rolls and gerrymandering.
6. The party that is in the majority suppresses voters and the minority party can't do anything about it also they are suppressing the other parties votes so they can't vote against voter suppression.
7. He expects it to come from the state courts.
8. 1 out of every 10 African American votes were discounted and 1 out of every 50 white votes were discounted.
9. 15 states added photo ID laws for voters after the Obama election in 2008.
10. He suggests same day registration, anti-gerrymandering referendums and automatic registration.

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