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Why Don't the Republicans want the People to Vote?

House Bill 4549 would throw up serious barriers to third party groups registering voters and require keeping and reporting weekly to the election commission.

It is bad enough that the Republicans passed the onerous Voter Id bill last year when there was (and the courts have suspended the law already), but now Republicans want to stop organizations like the League of Women Voters from registering citizens of South Carolina.

House Bill 4549 would throw up serious barriers to third party groups registering voters and require keeping and reporting weekly to the election commission. The bill would in effect keep Churches, Boy Scouts, the League of Women Voters and AAUW from registering people to vote due to the heinous fines imposed for record keeping. For example if a person picks up a registration form from your stack and sends it in and, you don't record it and report it, it's a $100 fine.

I wish the Republican leaders would work on real problems, like making our public schools better, fixing our infrastructure, and tackling the unemployment problem.

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Does anybody in Summerville really think we need to stop the Boy Scouts, League of Women Voters and AAUW from registering voters? Please post your comments!

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