The Republican Attack on the Right to Vote

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While the GOP continues to fight on BEHALF of Jim Crow in Florida...

Andrew Gillum plans massive voter registration effort as FL Republicans try to undo Amendment 4.

MEANWHILE, in Wisconsin, yet ANOTHER example of underhanded Republican efforts to RIG THE SYSTEM and UNDERMINE THE WILL OF VOTERS

Wisconsin Judge Blocks Lame-Duck Laws That Stripped Democrats Of Power | HuffPost
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/wisconsin-judge-walker-evers-power-grab.html
Wisconsin judge blocks Republican power grab stripping power from Tony Evers.


"A Wisconsin judge temporarily blocked a set of laws Thursday that Republicans passed in a lame-duck session late last year that stripped Democratic lawmakers of their power.

The laws Republicans passed made cuts to early voting and limited the appointment power of the governor and the ability of the attorney general to withdraw from lawsuits. The laws drew national outcry as Republicans moved to quickly pass them after losing control of the attorney general’s office and the governor’s mansion.

A contingent of advocacy groups sued over the measures in January, saying the Legislature had not properly convened the session in which it passed the laws."
 
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"This is nothing short of an undemocratic power grab by a party that knows it cannot win without voter suppression and gerrymandering. And it may be illegal…"

Always from the fake "we love America" and we are the true Americans crowd. Even as they work daily to turn this country into a combo Russian oligarch/Afghanistan taliban banana republic.
 

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On how the GOP empower THEMSELVES by RIGGING THE VOTE and DISCRIMINATING against minorities. And how the CONSERVATIVE STACKED SUPREME COURT might LEGITIMIZE IT:

The Supreme Court Could Green-Light Extreme Partisan Gerrymandering – Mother Jones

In 2016, after the Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature drew maps that segregated black voters into heavily majority-minority districts, a federal court ruled that two of the states’s congressional districts were illegally racially gerrymandered.

When Republicans redrew the congressional maps, legislative leaders openly admitted their top goal was to maintain a partisan advantage:

“I propose that we draw the maps to give a partisan advantage to 10 Republicans and three Democrats, because I do not believe it’s possible to draw a map with 11 Republicans and two Democrats,” said GOP state Rep. David Lewis, who oversaw the redistricting process. He conceded: “I acknowledge freely that this would be a political gerrymander, which is not against the law.”

The question now is whether Lewis was right.

A federal court struck down Lewis’ map in August 2018, finding that the legislature “drew and enacted the 2016 Plan with a predominant intent to subordinate the interests of non-Republican voters and entrench Republican control of North Carolina’s congressional delegation.”

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will weigh in, when it hears two major gerrymandering cases: the North Carolina one, Rucho v. Common, and one from Maryland, Lamone v. Benisek.

This is likely the court’s last chance to rule on gerrymandering before the 2020 elections and the next redistricting cycle in 2021.

It could finally strike down extreme partisan maps like the ones in North Carolina—or the court’s five conservative justices could make it next to impossible to challenge similar gerrymanders in the future. Control of Congress and critical state legislative chambers for the next decade could depend on the court’s rulings.

Just look at what happened in the 2018 midterm elections.

Democratic candidates for Congress won 49 percent of the vote in North Carolina, but Republicans retained nine of 12 House seats.

The 13th seat, in the state’s 9th Congressional District, remains unfilled after the result was vacated due to election fraud that benefited the GOP candidate.

That’s because North Carolina’s congressional maps were more skewed toward Republicans than those of any other swing state, according to an Associated Press analysis."
 

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More from the files of sneaky M----- F------ :

GOP wants criminal penalties if you don't submit false voter registrations—and civil fines if you do

"Tennessee Republicans are currently working to pass a Kafkaesque bill that would heavily restrict organizers’ ability to conduct voter registration drives by imposing criminal and civil penalties that could rear their heads at many different points during the process of signing citizens up to vote.

The bill would first require those conducting registration drives to undergo a training course from the secretary of state's office, making it a crime not to do so. But how do you even take such a course? Its contents aren’t defined in any way, and it’s not even clear when and where it would be offered.

And that’s not the only perverse provision. The GOP’s legislation would also criminalize any failure to submit a voter registration form to the state within 10 days after it’s signed. At the same time, it would also assess heavy civil fines on those who submit more than 100 inaccurate forms.

Organizers would therefore be utterly damned if they do or if they don’t: If they collect forms they know to be inaccurate, they’ll risk criminal penalties if they don’t turn them in and civil penalties if they do."
 

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Simple. Bring a blank form. Knock on the door. Provide form; maybe give the registrant a free pen, too. Leave them with a properly addressed stamped envelope, and have the registrant complete the form and mail it on their own.

I am not familiar with voter registration in the state of Tennessee, but unless it involves a physical visit to a county clerk (or similar), shouldn't the above solution work and not run afoul of such laws?
 
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Simple. Bring a blank form. Knock on the door. Provide form; maybe give the registrant a free pen, too. Leave them with a properly addressed stamped envelope, and have the registrant complete the form and mail it on their own.

I am not familiar with voter registration in the state of Tennessee, but unless it involves a physical visit to a county clerk (or similar), shouldn't the above solution work and not run afoul of such laws?

Except for the fact that the "real goal" of all these type of laws is to NOT register people to vote in the first place.

If you are not registered you can not vote

These are teh same people who have been against "motor voter" since before it became the law of the land

As I recall Florida enacted or at least tried to enact similar laws a few years back when Rick Scott was in charge

So no, as they see it your "solution" would not "work"
 
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Bottom line if it's a REPUBLICAN idea it's likely designed to keep CERTAIN people from voting. This thread if FULL of the dirty, underhanded shit these b-------------ds pull REGULARLY. They cheat the fkng system then accuse poor people and minorities of voter fraud. fuck them.
 
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Except for the fact that the "real goal" of all these type of laws is to NOT register people to vote in the first place.

If you are not registered you can not vote.

Again, if the goal is to get people to vote, you need to get them registered. If laws are drafted to prevent "mass registrations by one person (or some group)", then simply deliver the paperwork to the registrants, give them a pen, give them a stamp. Done. This "law" wouldn't impact you, as a community organizer, because the organizer is not completing the form on the behalf of the registrant. The organizer is simply providing the paperwork.

Fuck, if my memory serves me correctly, I registered to vote at 18 by completing and mailing in a form that was provided in a free newspaper...
 
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MORE sneaky, conniving right winged M------------- F------------, RIGGING THE SYSTEM. What they do BEST while fraudulently seek to SUPPRESS the vote of those THEY don't want voting:

Iowa’s Supreme Court Protected Gay Marriage and Abortion Rights—and Republican Lawmakers Are Out for Payback – Mother Jones

"Conservative Iowa lawmakers are advancing a bill that would change the long-standing way judges are selected in the state. Critics of the legislation, introduced in early February, say it is motivated by displeasure over state courts blocking abortion and same-sex marriage bans.


“It’s just an extreme political power grab by legislators who are unhappy with our current system because they disagree with some court cases,” says Connie Ryan, director of the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa and chair of Justice Not Politics, a nonpartisan group aimed at protecting Iowa courts from special interest groups.

Legal experts and advocates say that this move is the culmination of legislators’ efforts to secure more influence over the judicial branch that began after the Iowa Supreme Court struck down the state’s same-sex marriage ban in 2009.

In the aftermath of that decision, well-funded conservative activists and special interest groups led a successful campaign to oust three of the Iowa Supreme Court justices, the first such instance since Iowa adopted the merit selection system 48 years earlier.

Since then, conservative lawmakers have tried to chip away at the judicial appointment process through legislation, including failed bids to re-establish judicial elections and modify the selection process..."



So the next time some misinformed asshole or Trump/GOP sycophant tries to tell you that the GOP aren't against gay rights, you can tell them to go FUCK themselves.

 
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If you recall, Donald Trump, shortly after his occupancy of the Oval Office, and still bitterly STUNG by the fact that he lost the popular vote by some THREE MILLION voters, and (like his... erm... hands) his NOT so big inauguration "crowd,"

conjured up a "commission" maliciously named "the presidential advisory committee on election integrity" (what a fkng joke) headed up by yet another Trump stooge and sycophant, Kris Kobach, one of Trump's proponents of anti-immigration policy (Muslim ban and shit like that), who wrote false and unsupported articles re. immigration and voter fraud in such "highly respected" (ahem) rags like Breitbart,

as well as the one who continued to make wildly false statements re. the so-called 3.2 million ineligible voters of the November 2016 elections who, as CHANCE would have it, all ALLEGEDLY voted for Hillary.

Only the "commission" failed to turn up proof of Kobach's claims, and was disbanded less than a year after it's creation. (Trump claimed it was because states were not cooperating with submitting personal info on millions of Americans. More likely it was because the wrong "illegal" voters were turning UP.)

And as it turns out, Kobach himself (like most of Trump's clown show), is one "piece of work":

Kris Kobach - Wikipedia

So, what's the latest on Kobach's fraudulent voters? Well...

Sad Trombone: the last of Kris Kobach's voter fraud cases falls apart

"Kris Kobach had long proclaimed he knew something about voter fraud — that it was widespread and tearing our democracy apart. He promoted wild conspiracy theories, quickly debunked, regarding thousands of illegal voters. Kobach had demanded that his office have prosecutorial powers to chase down all of these illegal voters. In the process, however, what he discovered was mostly elderly Republicans who, had little ill intent, but a lot of confusion."




 

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Bottom line if it's a REPUBLICAN idea it's likely designed to keep CERTAIN people from voting. This thread if FULL of the dirty, underhanded shit these b-------------ds pull REGULARLY. They cheat the fkng system then accuse poor people and minorities of voter fraud. fuck them.

You are cunfused.

Every legal voter should have the right and opportunity to vote.
No one other than a legal voter should ever have the opportunity.

Why is this difficult?
 
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Anyway moving on.....

If you want to know why Stacey Abrams has electrified many Democrats, take a look at an interview she gave at the Brookings Institution in February where she provided an up-close, extremely detailed account of voter suppression.

She explained that we’ve gone from Jim Crow laws and practices that blocked nonwhites from voting to a more sophisticated system of interlocking components. “Voter suppression acts as a means of denying those policies reality and it is baked into the DNA of America. It has been perfected in recent years, in the last two decades, in a way that lets us forget that it’s real because it has so many pieces, and that’s the architecture.”​

 

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Anyway moving on.....

If you want to know why Stacey Abrams has electrified many Democrats, take a look at an interview she gave at the Brookings Institution in February where she provided an up-close, extremely detailed account of voter suppression.

She explained that we’ve gone from Jim Crow laws and practices that blocked nonwhites from voting to a more sophisticated system of interlocking components. “Voter suppression acts as a means of denying those policies reality and it is baked into the DNA of America. It has been perfected in recent years, in the last two decades, in a way that lets us forget that it’s real because it has so many pieces, and that’s the architecture.”​


Stacey Abrams lost by more than 50,000 votes. We can only hope that the libs latch onto her fantasy train!
 

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Again, if the goal is to get people to vote, you need to get them registered. If laws are drafted to prevent "mass registrations by one person (or some group)", then simply deliver the paperwork to the registrants, give them a pen, give them a stamp. Done. This "law" wouldn't impact you, as a community organizer, because the organizer is not completing the form on the behalf of the registrant. The organizer is simply providing the paperwork.

Fuck, if my memory serves me correctly, I registered to vote at 18 by completing and mailing in a form that was provided in a free newspaper...
The problem is, the GOP isn't interested in FACILITATING the right to vote. They're interested in OBSTRUCTING the rights of voters likely to vote AGAINST THEM.

Huum wasn't it you who accused me of name calling and well...


What more would one expect of a troll-apologist-defender of voter suppression tactics, and underhanded right winged efforts to discrimination against and disenfranchise minority voters?

 
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Stacey Abrams lost by more than 50,000 votes. We can only hope that the libs latch onto her fantasy train!

The idea that you'd try to disparage this woman after a narrow election result, in a red state, and against the guy who CONTROLLED voter registration, tried to illegally DEPRIVE mostly minorities of their right to vote, and who has a sordid HISTORY of VOTER SUPPRESSION, lies, and underhanded tactics, only goes to show what YOU are, champ.

Say what you will. Kemp STOLE the fucking election.


"By early October 2018, more than 53,000 voter registration applications had been put on hold by Kemp's office, with more than 75% belonging to minorities.

An investigative journalism group run by Greg Palast found that of the approximately 534,000 Georgians whose voter registrations were purged between 2016 and 2017 more than 334,000 still lived where they were registered.


The voters were given no notice that they had been purged.


Kemp's office was found to have violated the law before and immediately after the 2018 midterm elections.

In a ruling against Kemp, District Judge Amy Totenberg found that Kemp's office had violated the Help America Vote Act and said an attempt by Kemp's office to expedite the certification of results "appears to suggest the Secretary’s foregoing of its responsibility to confirm the accuracy of the results prior to final certification, including the assessment of whether serious provisional balloting count issues have been consistently and properly handled."

On December 4, 2018, U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings, the incoming chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, announced that he would like to call Kemp before Congress to testify about the fairness of his actions during the 2018 elections.

"I want to be able to bring people in, like the new governor-to-be of Georgia, to explain ... to us why is it fair for wanting to be secretary of state and be running [for governor]," Cummings said.

On March 6, 2019, it was revealed that Brian Kemp and his successor as Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger are both under investigation by the House Oversight and Reform Committee for allegations of voter suppression in the 2018 election.
Elijah Cummings will oversee the investigation as chairman of the committee. Kemp was given until March 20, 2019 to comply with document requests or face a subpoena."

source: Brian Kemp - Wikipedia


 
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In the minds of Republicans, there is something "massively unequal" in someone winning with THE MOST VOTES... but only when Democrats do, apparently.

Kansas Republican editorial openly declares minority voting a problem, calls for change

And just in case our usual defenders of discriminatory right winged voter suppression dismiss the above because it's from the Kos, here (below) is the actual op-ed of the Kansas Republican's editorial and his actual words (my highlights are in RED):


kansas-should-have-system-like-electoral-college-for-governor | Opinion

"While talking politics recently with my family physician, a subject we agreed upon was Kansas has an enormous need to change how our state’s governor is elected.

We both reflected on the fact western Kansas – nay most of Kansas – has no voice in how our governor is elected. Simply said, our votes don’t count.

Democrat Laura Kelly won the governorship with 48 percent of the votes to 43 percent for Republican Kris Kobach. But here’s the massive inequality of our state’s system: Kelly only won in nine counties.

When looking at the state map, there are 105 counties, she won the election by earning the majority of votes in less than 9 percent of the state. That tells you all you need to know about “population centers.”

That is an outrage.

She won in the populous counties of Shawnee, Sedgwick, Harvey, Riley, Lyon, Crawford, Douglas, Johnson and Wyandotte.

Kobach took the other 96 counties – or about 91 percent of the state.

Talk about the need for some kind of state electoral college. Ya think?

Allowing these few nests of leftists decide who governs our state is an outrage.

Lets look into these left-leaning counties.

First, Sedgwick is at the top of populous counties in the state and full of minorities, who according to a Politico analysis of the Kansas election, went heavily for Kelly. Wyandotte and Johnson the same thing – Kansas City and again, the heavily populated counties full of minorities who always vote Democrat after being promised to receive free things."

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Riiiiiight... got to DO something about all those minority voters looking for "free stuff." You racists piece of S----.