Sometimes you actually have to write to the paper

To the Editors;

The Obama campaign has registered millions of new voters this year, including many African Americans who have never voted before. Although this strategy was clearly intended to benefit the Democrats, it benefits the country as well by expanding democracy for all.

It is shocking to learn that Michigan Republicans are gearing up an organized campaign to try to prevent many of these new voters from exercising their right to participate in the coming election. The Chairman of the Macomb County GOP announced that his organization will use lists of foreclosed homes to challenge voters at the polls, claiming that their legal residency is somehow suspect.

Just imagine that you are going through the agony of foreclosure, and when you arrive at the poll someone stands up and says you don’t have the right to vote. What would you do if this was the first election you had ever voted in? Hang your head in shame and walk back to your family home where a for-sale sign sits in the yard? What would you say to your children? That you’ve lost your home and now you’ve been turned away at the polls?

This is not something that should happen in America. We are a better country than that, and anyone who plans to engage in this kind of voter suppression is a coward and a scoundrel who doesn’t deserve to live here.

Let's see if they print it.