Democrats -- Making Sure Every Vote Counts -- Not

By Chris Weinkopf on January 18, 2008 10:06 AM | | Comments (0) |

Remember the way certain Democrats screamed bloody murder about "disenfranchisement" in Florida because a somewhat complicated ballot design may have befuddled the easily confused? Or how about Democratic protests of laws that require voters to show ID, or bar felons from voting, which, the party insists, somehow discriminate against minorities? Remember all the Democratic post-2000 sloganeering about making sure "every vote counts"?

Well, fast forward to 2008, and the Democratic Party is denying voters in Michigan (home of 1.5 million of African-Americans) and Florida (home of 3.6 million Latinos) a role in choosing its nominee. And its leading candidate just lost a lawsuit trying to make it harder for unionized casino workers to vote in Nevada.

The Democrats: Making sure every vote counts -- except when it doesn't. (Somebody call Dennis Kucinich ...)

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