Under Attack

The recent assault on our voting rights

Takes manipulation to ultimate heights.

Since 2010, twenty-two states--

Red states especially--have opened the gates

To laws restricting the rights of voters--

Supported by cunning rights-tromping promoters

Who try to justify with fatuous excuses

Their attack on what they call “voting abuses.”

The actual rate of our voter fraud

Is INFINITESIMAL. Yet how very odd:

The restrictions have slyly disenfranchised

Minorities, students, and seniors--Surprised?--

Precisely the ones who tend not to dote

On a right-wing candidate when casting a vote.

The REAL fraud here comes from politicians

Hell-bent on undemocratic missions

To take away rights under the guise

Of protecting our nation. Beware of their lies!

Too bad more people can’t see through the schlock

And perceive how these new voting laws are a crock.

 

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