Thousands March for Voting Rights in Texas
Posted by Matt Ortega on February 20, 2008 at 03:38 PM
Burnt Orange Report tells an incredible story of 1,000 young people from Prairie View A&M University who marched 7.3 miles with 1,000 community activists to the only polling location in all of rural Waller County, Texas.
The group marched to cast their ballots on the first day of early voting in Texas, and to also protest the limited access to the ballot.
The Waller County Courthouse in Hempstead is the only polling location and reportedly has only two voting machines. However, the actions of the students from Prairie View A&M and their community allies did not go unnoticed. From the Houston Chronicle:
Under pressure from the federal government, Waller County on Tuesday added three temporary polling places for early voting, ditching plans to open only one voting site in advance of the March 4 primary.
The Justice Department questioned the county's January decision to cut early-voting sites from a half dozen throughout the county to just one in Hempstead. The county's about-face came on the same day that vocal critics announced a mass march to the polls next week.
Commissioners made the change in an emergency session Tuesday to address questions from federal voting officials about whether one site would infringe on the rights of minority voters.
Early voting begins Tuesday, but the additional sites won't open until the end of next week. They will be available for voters from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Feb. 22 and 23.
Congratulations to the students and community activists!
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Burnt Orange Report tells an incredible story of 1,000 young people from Prairie View A&M University who marched 7.3 miles with 1,000 community activists to the only polling location in all of rural Waller County, Texas.
The group marched to cast their ballots on the first day of early voting in Texas, and to also protest the limited access to the ballot.
The Waller County Courthouse in Hempstead is the only polling location and reportedly has only two voting machines. However, the actions of the students from Prairie View A&M and their community allies did not go unnoticed. From the Houston Chronicle:
Under pressure from the federal government, Waller County on Tuesday added three temporary polling places for early voting, ditching plans to open only one voting site in advance of the March 4 primary.
The Justice Department questioned the county's January decision to cut early-voting sites from a half dozen throughout the county to just one in Hempstead. The county's about-face came on the same day that vocal critics announced a mass march to the polls next week.
Commissioners made the change in an emergency session Tuesday to address questions from federal voting officials about whether one site would infringe on the rights of minority voters.
Early voting begins Tuesday, but the additional sites won't open until the end of next week. They will be available for voters from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Feb. 22 and 23.
Congratulations to the students and community activists!
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Obama’s efforts to connect to the Republican Party, specifically Bush, and Dick Chaney, of the Halliburton Company, dates back to the Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and indeed Chaney was once an executive officer of Halliburton.
The American military pounds Iraq with Artillary, bombs, and the like, destroying large sections of cities, and infra-structures, then Halliburton comes in to rebuild. Halliburton and Halliburton associated companies have raked in ten’s of billions.
Obama is just like the BIG HALIBURTAN. Haliburton has contracted to build detention centers in the U.S. similiar to the one in Quantanammo Bay, Cuba. Halliburton does nothing to earn the Two Dollars for each meal an American Serviceman in Iraq eats.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
Halliburton was scheduled to take control of the Dubai Ports in The United Arab Emiirate. The deal was canceled when Bush was unable to affect the transfer of the American Ports.
Now we see what some might suspect as similiar financial escapading from the Democrats.
Two years ago, Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity gave a $50 million contract to a start-up security company - Companion- owned by now-indicted businessman (TONY REZKO) Tony Rezko and a onetime Chicago cop, Daniel T. Frawley, to train Iraqi power-plant guards in the United States. An Iraqi leadership change left the deal in limbo. Now the company, Companion Security, is working to revive its contract.
Involved along with Antoin “Tony” Rezco, long time friend and neighbor of Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, and former cop Daniel T. Frawley, is Aiham Alsammarae. Alsammarae was accused of financial corruption by Iraqi authorities and jailed in Iraq last year before escaping and returning here.
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Recently, Obama's campaign staff have been vetted by the IRS to disclose his connection to the criminal money generating underworld. Besides, his connections to the REZCO MAFIA types, his up-coming tax fraud charges — Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" and disclose Obama's MUSLIM Farrakhan mob connection to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said "truly epitomized greatness." That man is Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church are trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. Obama should stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It’s time to introduce this false, fake Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke "GLORK" Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He is MAD!!! --
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RE: HILLARY CLINTON - soy una mujer jubilada que cuidando de a mi marido incapacitado que yo sólo quiero decir: HILLARY CONSEGUIRA EL TRABAJO HECHO. ELLA TERMINARA LA GUERRA, ELLA CONSEGUIRA NUESTRA ESPALDA de la ECONOMIA EN el VESTIGIO, ELLA FIJARA LA CRISIS de ASISTENCIA SANITARIA, ELLA ASEGURARA CUIDADO MEDICO, ELLA AYUDARA a LOS VETERINARIOS. ELLA ES UNA MUJER DE SU PALABRA. SE que ELLA HARA TODO ESTAS COSAS. NOSOTROS LA NECESITAMOS.
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