President Barack Obama: Voter Registration

Obama Dept: U.S. President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders want to make voting easier for Americans as several recent studies suggest long lineups at ballot boxes and onerous voter registration procedures cost the Democrats hundreds of thousands of votes in November particularly among African-Americans and Hispanics, according to Vancouver Sun. "Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote," said Obama, a one-time community organizer who once helped register impoverished Chicago voters and wASHINGTON - There's a new battle looming between Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. capital, and this one doesn't have to do with guns, immigration or debt reduction it's about voting rights. Obama has been signalling his intentions since election night, when he made mention of the long queues to vote and intoned: "We have to fix that." He reiterated that sentiment in his second inaugural address two weeks ago. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.