During his State of the Union Tuesday, President Obama announced the
formation of a new bipartisan commission to fix the nation’s broken
voting system. In the audience was 102-year-old Desiline Victor who
waited for hours to cast her ballot in the last election. Victor lives
in Florida, where an estimated 200,000 voters failed to vote after
becoming frustrated by the long lines. We speak to NAACP
President Benjamin Jealous about how long lines is just one of many
forms of voter suppression that the commission needs to address.Friday, February 15, 2013
NAACP: New Election Commission Needed to Address Voter Suppression, Attacks on Voting Rights
During his State of the Union Tuesday, President Obama announced the
formation of a new bipartisan commission to fix the nation’s broken
voting system. In the audience was 102-year-old Desiline Victor who
waited for hours to cast her ballot in the last election. Victor lives
in Florida, where an estimated 200,000 voters failed to vote after
becoming frustrated by the long lines. We speak to NAACP
President Benjamin Jealous about how long lines is just one of many
forms of voter suppression that the commission needs to address.
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