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President Obama's State of Union address.Obama then pointed out in the audience Desiline Victor, a 102-year-old lady from Florida who was forced to wait in line three hours to vote. Everyone applauded. Hooray, plucky old lady!Obama announced that the non-partisan pooh-bahs would come up with a way, “to improve the voting experience”.Like, huh? Voting isn’t getting a massage in a hot tub at some Buddhist retreat for confused yuppies. It’s about getting your damn ballot counted. Voting is not an experience, it’s a right.And, Mr President, Desiline Victor didn’t have to wait in line because she’s really old, but because she’s black.It’s not some technical problem about voting procedures, it’s about the systematic use of computer-aided bigotry employed by Republicans and some Democrats to steal elections.Besides, we’ve done this “non-partisan panel” flamingo a dozen times before. Did you forget about George “Victory-in-Florida” Bush’s commission headed by Jimmy Carter and Jim Baker?Bush created a new non-partisan Elections Assistance Commission. On this panel sat the very two white guys Obama appointed to the new commission: Ben Ginsberg, Mitt Romney’s lawyer, and Bob Bauer, Obama’s campaign lawyer. (That’s “non-partisan”? Whatever.)Let me tell you about how the panel with your two pale-faces did it last time, Mr President. In 2006, they hired an expert, Dr Tova Wang, to find out what’s wrong with America’s elections. She concluded that Jim Crow still runs voting in much of America. Dr Wang titled her report, “Voting Fraud and Voter Intimidation,” detailing and quantifying widespread racist trickery.
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