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After a century of protests, marches, walk-outs and sit-ins, some of which were peaceful and some were violent, the expansion of voting rights in America have begun to recede. The backlash election of 2010 ushered in, on a national level, special interest financed congressmen and senators who were tea party "sympathetic". At the national level, their influence was very visible as they tried to obstruct and defeat any and all Obama legislation.

However, as this visible national arm wrestling was going on, the real damage was being done at the state level where many legislatures were overwhelmed by this influx. The outcome was a non-majority endorsed onslaught of legislation limiting abortion rights, collective bargaining rights, and voting rights. These were either written in advance for such an occasion by -- or influenced by -- a political action group called ALEC that was directly financed by rich ultra conservatives and oligarchs.

However, for all the legislation passed, it is the damage to voting rights that is perhaps the most important. These voting rights are the basis for all other rights when our Constitution is under assault "by people claiming to indirectly amend the Constitution because it is under assault". This attempt to limit ordinary folks the right to vote is now bubbling to the surface. Failure to check voter suppression and vote tampering may require upwards of 10 million votes to counteract.

View a video on voter suppression attempts from Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC

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Rachel Maddow on voter suppression in Arizona, Colarado and Ohio on MSNBC

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 Democracy Advocates Tripped Up In Florida Vote Suppression Law.

 Rachel Maddow Speaks with Ann McFall, Supervisor Of Elections In Volusia County Florida about voters already being victimized.

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Who's Paying for the GOP's Plan to Hijack the 2012 Election? — By Nick Baumann

Someone is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to rig the rules of the presidential election against Obama. But the source of the money is a mystery.

Over the past six months, someone—or a group of someones—has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund an effort to change the rules of the 2012 presidential election to make it very difficult for President Barack Obama to win reelection. But the shadowy lobbying group mounting this campaign hasn't disclosed its donors—and under current law, it doesn't have to.

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About the Author

bobby jennings is co-publisher of InnerSelf Publications and webmaster of InnerSelf.com. Originally a Democrat for many years, he moved to the Republican party in the mid 1980's and the Green Party in 2000. He now supports common sense initiatives from all parties and votes independently in the general elections. He supports small efficient honest government, government managed capitalism, an independent judiciary, religious tolerance, as well as social and economic justice. He is an ex-Army officer and retired small business owner. He best describes himself as a now extinct "Eisenhower Republican".

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