America Needs a “Right to Vote,” as Georgia Proves Jim Crow Never Completely Ended
The right to vote is more important then owning property or guns
This week, Georgia passed the most restrictive voter suppression legislation since Jim Crow. In actuality, the Georgia legislature proves that Jim Crow never completely ended. It’s alive and well today, in part, and its principal proponent is the GOP.
The two bills end automatic voter registration, ban drop boxes for absentee ballots and radically curtail mail-in voting. They also make illegal “Souls to the Polls” on some weekends, a tradition that has led to about 10 times more African Americans than white people voting on Georgia Sundays near Election Day.
And Georgia is just the first among many Republican-controlled states that are planning to do the same and more.
America needs an absolute right to vote, like most other major democracies.
One legacy of slavery is that our Constitution does not contain an absolute right to vote for all citizens who have achieved the age of majority.
Because we don’t have a right to vote, Red State governors can radically cut back on the number of polling places and voting machines so that working class people are forced to stand in line…
