Alison, I love your blog; I learn so much! Thank you for posting information about the article at freepress.org. I’ve referenced it on my FB page. Blessings! ~ Gelene (DebbieR’s mom) 🙂

Thank you, Thank you , Thank you!!!

For bringing attention to one of our rights that is taken for granted and is underutilized due to misinformation about the power of the individual vote.

Now to get folks to spend just a little time becoming informed about the issues and not just believing the rhetoric heard in sound bites and on ads.

Bravo, Alison. Next thing you know, someone will be saying police and fire unions can’t make political contributions… 😉

I firmly believe that we should never stand by silently and let some other group be singled out for exclusion — if we do, we risk someday being part of a group subjected to it

Our school bond vote failed by TWO VOTES. Doesn’t that just make me feel ashamed of those whose parents sacrificed so much to see that we had a school in our little town and even more ashamed of the two who did not vote!

All of these comments are right on the money (if you’ll pardon the expression). There are those who don’t realize that freedom is hard work!

Wow. Thanks for blogging this.

Very educational… and powerful!

Voting is a right some people in this world are ready to give their lives for – some did give up their lives so that future generations could.

As it is very wisely said in the movie Mulan (Disney): a single grain of rice can tip a scale.

Thank you for posting this.

I think what appals me the most about Romney wanting to take away the ability for teachers unions to make political contributions is that it is in light of the courts giving other companies the same “rights” as individuals to do so.

So companies like Bain (and HIG Capital) are allowed a (powerful) voice in the political proceedings, but a group looking out for teachers rights impacted by politics as much or even more than those companies are to be muzzled?

Fie, I say.

I think you’re selling Mr. Romney short, Alison. I’m sure there are plenty of other non-Republican voters he’d like to disenfranchise. Admittedly, he has been less candid about identifying them publicly.

Still catching up on blog reading after my trip. I get a chill of foreboding reading about HIG Capital. Thanks for this, and also for the background information about your grandfather (another post). Fascinating! (I, too, am a former Republican. So glad I’ve mended my ways.)

We have a state vote on voter ID on our ballot this fall. Every day I drive past a billboard that says “It’s common sense. Vote Yes for voter ID.”

Except that it only seems like common sense until you get the information that voter fraud has not been an issue here – the odds of having one’s vote cancelled by a fraudulent one here is less than the odds of being hit by lightning (League of Women Voters). Yet passing this amendment will cost many dollars and yes, many legitimate votes.

Voting machines, on the other hand, have an incredibly high rate of error (many sources, just Google it!). Seems like we are trying to ban the wrong thing.