ACORN SOROS SEIU THUGZZZ BLAAAAARRRGGFLLL

This is why I love the ACLU.

Their voter rights pamphlet for my state got *heavy* use when I did election work. Came in real handy when a handicapped guy who lived across the street wheeled himself in so we could help him with the absentee form, and then later to help him fill out the ballot. Had to make sure I followed everything to-the-goddamn-letter on the off chance someone had paid him to try to grab us for jumping the letter of the law, no matter how accidental.

That said, this is f--ked up, Florida. Besides the fact that only three of us could even register in my AP Government class (since only three of us were 18 by November), it was still a decent learning experience and still f--ked up.

/Go ACLU Go

SkunkWerks: Now, if you get the dead pre-registered to vote in Florida, well, that's perfectly okay...

As long as they vote republican



"Because you need me, Springfield Florida. Your guilty conscience may move you to vote Democratic, but deep down you long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king. That's why I did this, to save you from yourselves. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a city to run."

/Ohh right, the voter fraud

I'm really surprised Florida is still allowed to have elections.

I've noticed some strange laws around schools and prepping students to participate in our democracy.

Oregon has a law on the books preventing school administrators from speaking out in favor of or against laws that affect school funding. They can give facts (X # of dollars will be saved or lost), but cannot actually advocate for one choice or the other.

The whole restricting free speech thing bothers me more than a little.

This Florida thing is just another in a long line of transgressions against the people.

Stupid teacher. Doesn't she know that her job is to get kids to pass the standardized tests so the schools can continue to get federal funding? She's not actually supposed to teach, or try to make the kids learn anything other than which circle to fill in on the scantron sheet.

It's impossible to do something smart in a state that's populated and run by retards and imbeciles.

Are we all actors in our community, or are we just wards of the state?

You have to fill out forms and register with the state to help people register to vote? Uhm, how about no.

I'm just glad that they were able to work some good old-fashioned partisan paranoia and conspiracy theory in there.

Bondith: 17-year-olds can vote?

You can register to vote at 17 if you'll be 18 by the time of the election.

I registered at my school when I was 17.

And once again, the very stupid wait, what? ender.

The Homer Tax: trappedspirit: I'm just guessing here but I think it's would be to prevent a teacher having to deal with the inevitable question of "which party should I register with".

"Whatever party you want, if any. That's none of my concern."

You don't need a law to prevent that.

Really? You really trust teachers (especially teachers in Florida) to be neutral?

ChrisDe: Why do Republicans hate teachers so much?

It's not hatred, dear boy. Republicans are terrified of just about everything. They wet the bed at night with the realization that Americans can become an educated populace, smart enough to see through the incessant bullshiat they peddle.

incrdbil: If you cant figure out how to register on your own, and so so without help..then you probably are too stupid to vote.

Given that this teacher was probably pushing their own politicla affiliation, I dont see any problem here.

Heck, raise the voting age to 25, or 30. The young are too stupid to vote in general.

As long as the voting age is capped at 55-60, so the scared, racist, xenophobic, obsolete segment of the population is cut out of the political process as well.