Laws Being Passed By Republican Legislatures To Suppress The Vote In Democratic Leaning Precincts

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This thread is designed to be a place for the discussion of day-to-day efforts by Republican majority legislatures to suppress the number of Democratic votes in Nov 2022.

While this thread's main purpose is new information. The discussion of previous voter suppression laws, especially those still legal, are welcome.

What brought this to my mind was when I read here in one of the threads that a new law being considered makes providing food and water for those waiting ten hours to vote to now be illegal.

I'm hoping that there will be posters here in the various states that can give more information than what we can gather from national news.

For instance, in Texas for sure and I think Georgia as well, somehow, the number of precincts for Democratic leading neighborhoods is less than for Republican leaning precincts.

For instance in this fictional comparison:

How can a law that provides one poll worker and one voting machine per 2000 voters be legal while providing one voting machine per 10,000 voters in another precinct?

How can a court not rule that a state is violating the Constitution when in all Republican leaning precincts there is a 30 minute wait to vote while there is a ten hour wait to vote in Democratic leaning precincts?

How could any court rule that this is equal access to voting! When it is shown that all Democratic leaning precincts have only one poll worker and one voting machine for each 10,000 voters while every Republican leaning precinct has one poll worker and one voting machine per 2000 voters?

Surely, this is unconstitutional!

I will post some of my ideas in my next post.
 

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Argued this week before the supreme court:
Justice Kagan: "A state has long had 2 weeks of early voting and then the state decides that it's going to get rid of Sunday voting...Black voters vote on Sunday 10x more than White voters. Is that system equally open?"
Attorney Michael Carvin: "I would think it would be..."
 

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Whites are no longer the majority in Texas. The percentage white dropped below 50 % several years ago. All I can figure is that there must be a significant percent of Texas' population that are either legal or illegal immigrants and can't vote in elections for Texas to be a Deep Red State.

Democrats may not be able to prevent these new voting restrictions. However, Democrats can and should go over those voting restrictions with a fine tooth comb and hiring the very best legal minds to take these laws to court right now so it gets to the Supreme Court in time to have a ruling before the election cycle of 2022.

I know that the conservatives have a 6-3 edge. The justices do not want to be on the wrong side of history.

Also, the Supreme Court is aware that the number of justices is set by Congress. If the Supreme Court becomes too conservative the Congress and Biden can add 4 new justices and change the makeup of the Court. This is legal to do!

Democrats also need to devise a plan to get every Democrat leaning citizen of each state registered to vote right now. Go to homes and find all voters in Democratic leaning precincts.

On election day, Nov 2022, if that means giving out "coupons" to fast food, pizza parlors, etc. for those who vote; if that means getting vans to pick up voters; if whatever I left out; we Democrats must do.

I mentioned the ten hour wait with providing any food or water for those in line being prohibited by some of these laws in the opening post. I suspect that these kind of laws also state that if a person gets out of the line for any reason they have to go get at the end of the line. This would mean no restroom break for ten hours. Some can do this. Most older people can not hold urine that long.

The Supreme Court has ruled that even prisoners have the right to a toilet when needed. Courts have ruled that students in school have a right to the toilet when needed. Prisons and schools can't take away toilet breaks as a punishment or to show who is boss.

To make it legal to take away toilet visits, food and water for ten hours would require that the Supreme Court to also take that right away from prisoners, students and employees.

As I recall, there were voters standing in line in 2020 for ten hours. This information can be used in a court of law to show how this is a deliberate action on Republican legislatures to discourage voting in Democratic leaning precincts.

Should be unconstitutional!

I do not like the next possibility at all, but I can be convinced that it needs to be done. That is, do whatever is legal to make it more difficult for voters in Republican majority precincts to vote.

Park vehicles in every available space and make those Republican majority precinct voters have to walk 100 or more yards to vote. Stage peaceful and legal protests at Republican precincts. Do anything legal and peaceful to discourage people voting in majority Republican precincts on election day.

Fight fire with fire. I don't like some of these suggestions at all. However, we may not have any other reasonable choice that is legal.