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Dems to Win

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3. Excellent idea
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 09:34 PM
Dec 2016

Soros and Buffett should use their billions to fund pro bono lawyers and paplegals to help each individual in America get ID and get registered to vote. If that requires getting an unfair conviction overturned, put a young lawyer to work on it with the potential voter. If that requires collecting affidavits to obtain a birth certificate for a person for the first time, put a young lawyer to work on it.

Valid ID can help a person in so many ways beyond voting. Getting a checking account, accessing health care, everything is easier with the proper ID. It would be a real service to people, and build good will.

Those billions should also be used to hire a bunch of pro bono lawyers and paralegals for immigrants. They don't get representation if they can't pay for it. Many have claims that are complicated, for example if a minor offense could be expunged in court then a deportation order could be overturned, but it's pretty hopeless for people without a good lawyer.

There are a lot a recent law school grads that have a hard time finding work. All of them could be hired to help real people with real problems, if only someone with the money would step up.

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