The Wifi can be acting up because there are estimates as high as 100 million people watching tonight.
The League of Women Voters has had their drives to register voters attacked and in some states to the point that they can not conducted anymore.
...Today (click here) we are experiencing an unprecedented attack on voting rights. This assault on voters is sweeping across the country, state by state, and is one of the greatest self-inflicted threats to our democracy – our way of governing – in our lifetimes. These new laws threaten to silence the voices of those least heard and rarely listened to in this country – the poor, the elderly, racial and ethnic minorities, the young and the differently abled. These new laws require photo ID and or proof of citizenship in order to vote, they restrict third party voter registration drives, decrease early voting and eliminate Election Day registration....
...In 2011 alone we have seen an exponential increase in the number of new voter suppression laws being implemented at the state level:
- Eight states (AL, KS, MS, RI, SC, TN, TX and WI) have passed new restrictive photo ID laws.
- Three states (AL, KS and TX) passed laws requiring proof of citizenship as a prerequisite to voting.
- Two states (FL, TX) have made it more difficult for groups like the League of Women Voters to register voters.
- Five states (FL, GA, OH, TN and WV) have passed legislation that would eliminate or shorten the period of early voting.
- In addition, we could see new suppression laws passed in Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, Virginia and Pennsylvania before the 2012 elections....
