4 responses to “A Photo for Friday: “The Power of the Vote””

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   Jay L Gischer

   March 13, 2020 at 11:05 am

   I love me a good mural. And that’s one.
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   gVOR08

   March 13, 2020 at 12:05 pm

   I see people starting to worry about the effect of coronavirus on voting in the remaining primaries and in the general. There’s plenty of time to expand vote by mail for the general, but I’d bet there are Republican consultants right now studying whether there’s partisan advantage in not doing so. My estimate is any restriction on voting helps Rs. The olds are more directly threatened, but my guess is it would mostly be another barrier to people for whom voting is already a pain because they can’t get off work, lack transport, need to find care for the kids, or whatever.
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   de stijl

   March 13, 2020 at 1:35 pm

   It is astonishing that that 101 years ago women could not vote here in the US.

   Depending on how old you are, you could have known women who were constitutionally inelegible to vote when they were young adults.
4. 

   DrDaveT

   March 13, 2020 at 2:22 pm

   @de stijl:

   Depending on how old you are, you could have known women who were constitutionally inelegible to vote when they were young adults.

   I knew two of my great-grandmothers; they both died when I was in my teens. One was born in 1891; the other was born in 1893. So, yeah.

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