Thursday, March 10, 2011

New Hampshire House Speaker Wants To Cut Voting Rights For Students Because They’re “Voting Liberal”

Republican New Hampshire House Speaker William O’Brien is part of a nationwide effort to deny voting rights to students, the disabled, and the elderly. In O’Brien’s case, it’s because college students tend to be liberal.

He said that Plymouth, a college town, experiences 900 same-day voter registrations.

“They are kids voting liberal, voting their feelings, with no life experience,” he said.

So, “life experience” must mean you’re a conservative. Right, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates? Think Progress notes 22 statehouses in America where conservatives are similarly working to disenfranchise voters.

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