The Republican Attack on the Right to Vote

[StormfrontFL]

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----.

So those brainless members of the GOP would prefer to have a smaller number of people decide than a larger group. So what if 90,000 people live in 96 counties? More than that lives in the other 9. The analogy about a schoolhouse applies. Eight classrooms with 2 people each don't mean more than 2 classrooms with 20 each.

 

[deleted15807]

What else is a party bereft of ideas and morals supposed to do? Cheating is all they've got.

As we turn our attention toward the 2020 elections, Republican lawmakers across the country are asking: How can we keep people from voting? In Tennessee, which already has lower-than-average rates of turnout, the legislature is on the case:

Tennessee could penalize some paid voter registration groups with fines for too many faulty signups and criminal charges for violating new requirements under a proposal passed by the House on Monday.

The vote bucked some voting rights groups, who have voiced fear that the bill would create a chilling effect on Tennessee’s already-poor voter participation marks.​

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The problem here is obviously not that erroneous registrations create some kind of unmanageable burden on state officials, because they've always existed and always will.

It’s that too many black people registered to vote in Tennessee, and something had to be done about it.

Republicans boldly explore new frontiers of voter suppression

Where Democrats are in charge, they’ll institute automatic voter registration, same-day registration, no-excuse absentee voting, extended early voting, and anything else that will maximize turnout and make voting easy. Where Republicans are in charge they’ll employ voter ID, restricted early voting, polling place closures, and anything else that will drive voting down, particularly among African Americans.

And if all that isn’t enough, Republicans will go after the people registering voters, too.
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[Klingsor]

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

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

It's a good idea, but it doesn't go far enough. I want an electoral college system *on my block*, so my vote will count for more than those black people down the street.

 

[b.c.]

Bernie Explains Racist Voter Suppression to Racist, Vote Suppressing Senator Graham.

If he knew like US, he'd know he's wasting his fkng TIME.

 

[b.c.]

Corruption, Gerrymandering, and Voter Suppression: How North Carolina’s GOP Made a Great Big Mess – Mother Jones

“All of these different bits and pieces of the election apparatus in North Carolina have been bent in the favor of entrenchment of one party at the expense of everything else.”

"For months, North Carolina’s political framework has been plagued by scandal—a serious case of voter fraud that rendered an entire election illegitimate; legal battles over gerrymandered maps and voter ID laws; and corruption implicating top GOP officials.

But none of that has come out of the blue. The state’s electoral system has been slowly sliding the rails over the last decade. In 2010, Republicans won control of the House and Senate in North Carolina, and they’ve been working to change the democratic infrastructure of the state ever since. Albert Reynolds [a professor of political science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill] calls their efforts a “cancer…at the center of politics in the state.”"

 

[Freddie53]

We need to confront this issue boldly. Here is why.

The percent of Americans who are white is dropping. It is now projected that the white percent of the population will drop to 49 % in 2049. Whites will still be the largest ethnic group, but there will be no national majority ethnic group.

The Republican think tanks are very aware of this trend. They are trying out different strategies to see if they can find one that might work to end the American Republic with democracy as its foundation.

To make it work, democracy will have to be sacrificed.

This suggestion that the Kansas governor's race was won by the wrong person because we should count counties,, not people. That is not what the US Constitution says.

This is one reason why the Republicans want to take over the judicial system. Then the judges can rule what they like, not what the US Constitution says.

We need to look at history. Once upon a time there was this Roman Republic. One day Rome gave up its republic to be an empire with an emperor with almost absolute power. It all happened quite quickly when looking at history as a whole.

The Republican Party wants to find a way to end democracy in the US and turn the US into an authoritarian state with the Republican Party as the only real party. Democracy would become a thing of the past.

The Republicans know that they don't have much time left to overthrow the democratic government of the United States and install themselves as the absolute rulers of the American Empire.

The time to stop the Republicans becoming the absolute rulers of the US is now, not ten years from now. By that time, the Republicans may have found a way to install themselves as absolute rulers of the US.

2020 may be the most important election in our history!!!

 

[deleted15807]

This is one reason why the Republicans want to take over the judicial system. Then the judges can rule what they like, not what the US Constitution says.

Yep and we can thank Monster Mitch McConnell for his assault on the Constitution, the Senate and the American people in his relentless effort to stack the entire judiciary with Reich Wingers with nill diversity in fact negative. The president's record-shattering 84 confirmed judges are already 76 percent male and 91 percent white.

McConnell preps new nuclear option to speed Trump judges

We need to look at history. Once upon a time there was this Roman Republic. One day Rome gave up its republic to be an empire with an emperor with almost absolute power. It all happened quite quickly when looking at history as a whole.

Indeed with the Trump presidency who knew America could fall so far so fast? Countless time bombs await us as the staggering incompetence at the top of every governmental agency begins to be felt. It already is but it's not on the radar...yet. Trump's 40% of the electorate and 100% Republicans are uninterested in facts, evidence, and science which portend a perilous future for the country. And I frankly don't know how you change that. Facts, evidence and science have been downgraded to "your opinion" and as Asimov said "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge" but now it's become a national party's operating message to the masses.

The Republican Party wants to find a way to end democracy in the US and turn the US into an authoritarian state with the Republican Party as the only real party. Democracy would become a thing of the past.

The Republicans know that they don't have much time left to overthrow the democratic government of the United States and install themselves as the absolute rulers of the American Empire.

The time to stop the Republicans becoming the absolute rulers of the US is now, not ten years from now. By that time, the Republicans may have found a way to install themselves as absolute rulers of the US.

Yep. In spite of the flag they drape around themselves they are false prophets to democracy. On paper we'll have elections but they will all be rigged at the state level so that even though they get a minority of votes they will still win. You would think Americans would be upset about that but too busy taking selfies, buying guns and watching Netflix I guess.

2020 may be the most important election in our history!!!

It may be however America will never fully recover from the Trump Administration and Foxy 24/7 Propaganda and Hate Network. Every value we think we have they run it through a meat grinder...daily.

 

[b.c.]

Indeed with the Trump presidency who knew America could fall so far so fast?

Well, without meaning to sound braggadocious about it, I did, quite frankly. Said so shortly before the election, and a guy named Stam called me chicken little for saying so. Wonder what he'd say now.

 

[StormfrontFL]

Yep and we can thank Monster Mitch McConnell for his assault on the Constitution, the Senate and the American people in his relentless effort to stack the entire judiciary with Reich Wingers with nill diversity in fact negative. The president's record-shattering 84 confirmed judges are already 76 percent male and 91 percent white.

McConnell preps new nuclear option to speed Trump judges



Indeed with the Trump presidency who knew America could fall so far so fast? Countless time bombs await us as the staggering incompetence at the top of every governmental agency begins to be felt. It already is but it's not on the radar...yet. Trump's 40% of the electorate and 100% Republicans are uninterested in facts, evidence, and science which portend a perilous future for the country. And I frankly don't know how you change that. Facts, evidence and science have been downgraded to "your opinion" and as Asimov said "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge" but now it's become a national party's operating message to the masses.



Yep. In spite of the flag they drape around themselves they are false prophets to democracy. On paper we'll have elections but they will all be rigged at the state level so that even though they get a minority of votes they will still win. You would think Americans would be upset about that but too busy taking selfies, buying guns and watching Netflix I guess.



It may be however America will never fully recover from the Trump Administration and Foxy 24/7 Propaganda and Hate Network. Every value we think we have they run it through a meat grinder...daily.

There were plenty of us who saw the signs before the 2016 election. All those who refused to vote for Hillary and chose to either stay home or vote 3rd party claimed that even if Trump won any damage he could do was going to be easy to undo. They never thought of the dangerous way he could affect the judiciary.

There are "Bernie Bros" who even now are stating that if Bernie again doesn't get the nomination they'll refuse to vote against Trump. These are the same people who regularly post about how much they hate Trump.

They, like Trump's base, don't see the big picture. It's also likely that they might be the least affected by the attacks ( too old to get pregnant, not gay, not Muslim, making over $250G)
Poll: Roughly 20% of Sanders voters would rather vote for Trump if Warren, Harris, or Buttigieg win
Protest all you like, Susan Sarandon. In effect you work for Trump

 

[deleted15807]

There were plenty of us who saw the signs before the 2016 election. All those who refused to vote for Hillary and chose to either stay home or vote 3rd party claimed that even if Trump won any damage he could do was going to be easy to undo. They never thought of the dangerous way he could affect the judiciary.

There are "Bernie Bros" who even now are stating that if Bernie again doesn't get the nomination they'll refuse to vote against Trump. These are the same people who regularly post about how much they hate Trump.

They, like Trump's base, don't see the big picture. It's also likely that they might be the least affected by the attacks ( too old to get pregnant, not gay, not Muslim, making over $250G)
Poll: Roughly 20% of Sanders voters would rather vote for Trump if Warren, Harris, or Buttigieg win
Protest all you like, Susan Sarandon. In effect you work for Trump

I guess the "Bernie Bros" are a cult like the Trumpsters. Facts and reasoning can't penetrate the bubble. His dementia is accelerating which will make him and his actions even more dangerous and probably excite his delusional base even more. And with Foxy News propping him up regardless he will be hard to beat without some unexpected intervening force.

 

[keenobserver]

There were plenty of us who saw the signs before the 2016 election. All those who refused to vote for Hillary and chose to either stay home or vote 3rd party claimed that even if Trump won any damage he could do was going to be easy to undo. They never thought of the dangerous way he could affect the judiciary.

There are "Bernie Bros" who even now are stating that if Bernie again doesn't get the nomination they'll refuse to vote against Trump. These are the same people who regularly post about how much they hate Trump.

They, like Trump's base, don't see the big picture. It's also likely that they might be the least affected by the attacks ( too old to get pregnant, not gay, not Muslim, making over $250G)
Poll: Roughly 20% of Sanders voters would rather vote for Trump if Warren, Harris, or Buttigieg win
Protest all you like, Susan Sarandon. In effect you work for Trump

Preach brother!!

 

[b.c.]

Federal Court Strikes Down Republican Gerrymanders in Michigan – Mother Jones

"A federal court unanimously struck down legislative maps drawn by Michigan Republicans on Thursday, finding that they were guilty of “deliberately discriminating against Democratic voters.”

The ruling by a three-judge panel invalidated 34 congressional, state House, and state Senate districts that had been challenged by the League of Women Voters and Democratic plaintiffs as unconstitutional gerrymanders and ordered that they be redrawn before the 2020 election."
https://www.motherjones.com/politic...kes-down-republican-gerrymanders-in-michigan/
Federal Court Says Several Michigan Electoral Districts Are Unconstitutional | HuffPost

 

[TexanStar]

@b.c.

The Roberts Court Is Considering the Legal Reasoning of Jim Crow to Uphold a Rigged Census

There’s an odious Supreme Court case from 1971, Palmer v. Thompson, that most people don’t remember and that most who do remember wish they could forget. It’s a relic of a bygone era—one of the last pieces of the Jim Crow system that the Supreme Court ever sustained.

 

[b.c.]

@b.c.

The Roberts Court Is Considering the Legal Reasoning of Jim Crow to Uphold a Rigged Census

There’s an odious Supreme Court case from 1971, Palmer v. Thompson, that most people don’t remember and that most who do remember wish they could forget. It’s a relic of a bygone era—one of the last pieces of the Jim Crow system that the Supreme Court ever sustained.

Yes, I've been following that developing story on the citizenship question that was added to the census.

 

[b.c.]

Texas retracts claim of mass voter fraud touted by Trump, halts planned purge.

"On Jan. 25, Texas Secretary of State David Whitley issued a shocking advisory alleging that 95,000 noncitizens were on the state’s voter rolls, 58,000 of whom had cast at least one ballot.

Whitley, a Republican, directed county registrars to commence an immediate purge of these noncitizens using lists he would provide.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, also a Republican, promptly tweeted a “VOTER FRAUD ALERT” summarizing Whitley’s findings, and ... Donald Trump repeated Whitley’s claims two days later. By that point, counties had already begun notifying targeted voters that they would be purged from the rolls."

"On Friday, Whitley quietly promised to rescind his January advisory and halt Texas’ voter purge as part of a settlement with multiple voting rights groups. The factual basis of Paxton and Trump’s tweets has been not just undermined, but fully revoked."

 

[deleted15807]

Yes, I've been following that developing story on the citizenship question that was added to the census.

Is there any doubt Trump's Supreme Court isn't going go green light it? Roberts and Friends will spend now till June making that fig leaf fit.

The Republican War on Democracy
If you can’t win playing by the rules, you change them.​

 

[Pahhppii]

Or some, at least, who THINK they are.

One would think "intelligent people" would have at least the ability to see through the fiction of all of this alleged "voter fraud" and figure out what's really behind it all.

Or is it is your intent to try to justify systematic GOP efforts at voter discrimination by referencing Obama administration policies?

And speaking of "America under attack"... is America NOT under "attack" when the GOP seeks to block extending unemployment benefits to those long term unemployed unable to find a job, or when the GOP blocks efforts at equalizing pay for women by claiming the issue is non-existent, or when they block efforts aimed at improving the lives of the working poor, the middle class, veterans, the needy, the uninsured, immigrants, minorities, and the LGBT community, while at the same time working hard to protect the tax havens and write offs for that wealthy 1%?

Or when they seek to tell US how we should live our lives, how we should plan our families, who and what we should believe in, and try to define for US what "American values" are supposed to be??

America under attack from Obama?? THAT'S a fuckin' laugh.

It's really funny viewing Obama's fear mongering 5 years after the fact. Damn did he get those lefties all scared shitless for no reason. LOL

 

[b.c.]

??? ... moving right along:

Trump Voter Fraud Panel Can't Duck Suit Claiming Ulterior Motive - Bloomberg

"The Trump administration is being ordered to widen its search for records and cough up emails about the work of two Justice Department officials who worked with the president’s disbanded commission on election fraud.

Watchdog groups demanded the records as part of their effort to show that the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity was less about voter fraud and more about voter suppression.

... Trump created the panel after the 2016 election to look into unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. He claimed -- without evidence -- that millions of non-citizens voted in the election. He said that was why Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by a margin of nearly 3 million. After several states balked at the commission’s request for voter records, Trump disbanded the panel in January 2018."


MEANWHILE:

Patricia Crimmins: Student voter suppression undermines the purposes of federalism | Lewiston Sun Journal

"Last year’s midterm election season saw historic accounts of voter suppression. In addition to measures in the South, seen by many as racially charged, college students who cast their vote in the state of the academic institution they attend had to jump through hoops just to register."


and Bernie, on the right to VOTE:

Bernie Sanders: Everyone deserves to vote, even felons like Paul Manafort & Michael Cohen

Bernie: "I have been attacked in recent days by President Trump and others for my conviction that people who are incarcerated should be given the right to vote. I make no apologies for that position.

Our country has had a long and shameful history of voter suppression. At our founding, despite rhetoric to the contrary, only land-owning white males were given the right to participate in our democracy. Lower income people, Women, Native Americans, African-Americans, and young people were excluded."​

 

[Pahhppii]

If wanting a felon who has committed a violent crime to not have the right to vote is somehow wrongful voter suppression, then I'm happily for some sort of voter suppression.

 

[chicagosam]

Court Strikes Down Ohio Congressional Map, Says It's Gerrymandered To Benefit GOP | HuffPost

Civil Rights Groups Sue Tennessee Over New Law That Puts Voter Registration Drives At Risk | HuffPost​