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In reply to the discussion: In 18 years since Naders run, what has been accomplished by attacking the Dem party from the left? [View all]Gothmog
(145,321 posts)Much of the voter suppression that you discuss is due to Nader and the 2000 election. Due to Nader, W got to appoint the SCOTUS justices who voted for Citizens United and for the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. I am living with the consequences of the gutting of the voting rights act. Texas has one of the nastiest voter id/voter suppression laws that had to be challenged in court by good democrats. Chad Dunn is the outside counsel for the Texas Democratic Party and was the lead lawyer in the Texas voter id litigation. Marc Veassey is a Democratic congressman who was the lead plaintiff in that case.
Even after winning that lawsuit, the GOP tried to suppress the vote. We had GOP appointed election workers greeting voters at polling places and telling them that they had to have photo id. Luckily we had poll watchers observe this and got this practice stopped.
Nader gave us Citizens United and Nader is responsible for the gutting of the voting rights act.