Since NPR got less than their goal in the last pledge drive, they have been giving more programs of interest to the 99%, like they mostly do just before and during a pledge drive. I guess right now they are in a continuing pledge drive.
But we can still see the influence of their corporate sponsors in what they leave out. Eg., this afternoon, in an interview with two people about whether the big push in Reublican-controlled states to require photo id is politically motivated, no mention was made was that there is no push in these states to toughen standards for absentee voting, which are much more amenable to fraudulent voting.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/10/675161/new-mexico-voter-purge/
By Annie-Rose Strasser posted from ThinkProgress Justice on Aug 10, 2012 at 6:10 pm
More than 170,000 people have been purged from New Mexico’s voter rolls — and among them are a prominent voting rights activist, as well as the wife of a Democratic state representative.
State Rep. Brian Egolf (D) told the AP that his wife received a letter saying that the state government considered her an inactive voter, and that she would need to, essentially, re-register before she could vote in the fall.
In an even more ironic move, a woman whose job is to ensure voting rights for New Mexicans was rendered an “INACTIVE” voter by the state. Diane Wood, the Voting Rights Director for Common Cause New Mexico, has been an active voter since 1971, and has dedicated her life to making sure other people have the same right.
.....
No comments:
Post a Comment