The Next America Whines About Your Elections: Ask Them About Their's

American has always taken the high road when it comes to elections across the global.  Pointing out the irregularities while ignoring those same problems in America.   Under the original Constitution only white males 21 years of age or older and landholders where aloud to vote.  Changes would come slowly.  On 18 August 1920 the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was approved by a majority of states and women finally achieved the right to vote.  45 years later the Civil Rights Act of 1965 was passed it outlawed the discriminatory laws enacted by the Southern States following their defeat by Union forces during the Civil War.  Among the laws passed included literacy tests and poll taxes all aimed at eliminating the African American vote.  Even the passage of that law conservatives in America continued to fight and enact various methods at preventing African Americans and other minorities form voting.  In 1970 President Richard Nixon with the help of aids Kevin Philips and Pat Buchanan created what became known as the Southern Strategy a policy meant to appeal to white southern racist voters into switching their party affiliation from Democrat to Republican it worked and the South became a solid voting block for the Republican party. 

In 1980 the Democratic National Committee accused the Republican National Committee of voter suppression in the state of New Jersey to this day  the RNC is still enjoined in the case with the court refusing to lift the consent decree. 

Fast forward past North Carolina Senator Jessie Helms, Rodger Allies, Lee Atwater  and George H. W. Bush's Willie Horton add and you still have considered efforts of by the Republican party to suppress the vote of African American's, other minority groups through intermediation.  Which gives you this:

GOP To Iowans: Your Neighbors Will Know If You Don’t Vote Republican

 
The GOP is trying to convince Iowa voters on Facebook that their neighbors will know if they voted Republican.

Screenshots of Facebook ads, promoted by the official Facebook page of the Republican National Committee feature an ominous message: “NOTICE: All Voting Is Public.” The ad tell voters that “In a few months, Iowa will release the list of individual who voted in this election.” Most troublingly, the ad includes an arial view of a neighborhood with checkmarks indicating that “These People Voted GOP.”

It is true that voter participation in elections in public information. But how a someone voted, including what party they voted for, is not. The secret ballot has long been considered a hallmark of American democracy.

The Enormous, Secretive Effort To Purge Thousands Of Minorities From 27 States’ Voter Rolls

In a story that has grown all too common as an election draws near, election officials across the country are engaged in an ambitious effort to purge voters from state voter rolls. Moreover, voters from racial minority groups are especially likely to be targeted by this purge. As Al Jazeera America reports, after examining the purge lists from 3 of the 27 states participating in the purge, the purge lists “are heavily weighted with names such as Jackson, Garcia, Patel and Kim — ones common among minorities, who vote overwhelmingly Democratic.”



The premise of the purge, which is the “pet project” of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R), is that a list of almost 7 million voters are suspected of casting a ballot during the same election in two different states. Thus, to accept this list as plausible, one has to believe that a massive chunk of voters, potentially amounting to nearly 6 percent of the voters who cast a ballot in the 2012 presidential race, cast two votes in a past election. If true, this would be voter fraud on a truly epic scale.

Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes has filed for an immediate injunction to stop Mitch McConnell from sending out a mailer that is designed to keep people from voting on Election Day.
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The mailer looks like an official document, but it’s not. The presentation is designed to scare voters with “ELECTION VIOLATION NOTICE” in all caps across the envelope. The letter warns the recipient that, “You are at risk of acting on fraudulent information.” The mailer is clearly voter intimidation and suppression tactic.
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McConnell’s voter suppression effort has caused election officials in Eastern Kentucky to issue an alert, “Tonight, an alert for Eastern Kentucky voters. The Perry County Clerk and others called us today concerned about a campaign flyer mailed to folks across the coverage area…Perry County Clerk Haven King says you should not worry if you received one of these. “This means nothing; I don’t know what people are trying to do. There’s nothing fraudulent to my knowledge going on and the people in Perry County if you are registered to vote, you will be able to vote and you will be able to vote at your precinct.”

Just remember America is just another hypocrite when it comes to free and fair elections and voting rights.