Al Jazeera goes where the MSM fears to tread, reports that millions of Americans are being kept from voting.

Courtesy of Al Jazeera:

 The US Presidential race is being fought out most visibly in its "air war" - the barrage of TV ads concentrated in swing states, and the televised debates reaching tens of millions of viewers at once. But in the end, the outcome may well be determined by its trench warfare, a crucial component of which, for the GOP, consists in an intensively-fought effort to prevent as many Democrats as possible from voting. 

It's a throwback to a bygone era, when similar efforts throughout the North - stopping short of the blood-stained mass terror favoured in the South - were employed to suppress the votes of thousands, perhaps millions of naturalised working class voters. 

With roughly seven million voters effectively prevented from voting in 2008, according to the Co-operative Congressional Election Study, and perhaps five million more imperiled by new voter-suppression measures, according to another study in 2011, this should be a dominant campaign story. 

Instead, it's marginalised, partly because it can't be squeezed into the US media's sacred "both sides do it" frame, and partly because those most impacted are primarily poor, low-income, and/or young. In 2005, for example, figures showed that only 59 per cent of citizens in households earning $15,000 or less were registered, compared to 85 per cent in house' earning over $75,000. 

 It's also the case these would-be voters are much less likely to have driving licences, birth certificates, or any other sort of documentation required by the avalanche of voter-ID laws, being marketed to "protect the vote", so those figures are probably only going to get worse, and the US media is not going to help you understand how or why. 

Now I know that MSNBC HAS been reporting this, but I don't believe that many other news outlets have given it any coverage, and of course Fox News is doing everything they can to cover it up.

In fact our situation is so dire that UN affiliated election monitors have been requested by the State Department, which of course has freaked the Right Wing out and caused them to fear that they might get caught red handed suppressing the vote or outright stealing the election:

Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote appeared on Fox News on Monday claiming that the monitors’ presence was actually intended to prevent and discourage U.S. voters from exercising their rights. Fox’s Megyn Kelly readily agreed, stressing the left-leaning nature of the civil rights groups, seemingly unaware of the State Department’s role in inviting the monitors. It’s worth mentioning that True the Vote, itself a Tea Party group voter suppression effort, is currently under investigation for possible criminal conspiracy.

I cannot stress the importance of getting as many Democrats as possible to the polls, but also of making sure that these that we make sure that these naked attempts to destroy our democracy fail.

I am beyond being surprised by the depths that those on the Republican side of the aisle will sink to in order to retain power and am now at the stage where my opinion is, if it's a fight they want, then by the Gods it's a fight they will get!

The right to vote is a sacred honor in this country and we need to impress on every family member, friend, and acquaintance that we know, that if they want to retain that right they need to exercise that right, despite whatever obstacles are thrown in their path by those who want to take that right away from them.