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Voter suppression
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 9, 2020, 2:48 am
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Post by 90sRetroFan on Dec 4, 2018 at 4:32pm
Developing:
www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-group-can-prove-illegal-voter-purge-k
emp-leader-says-100002969.html
[quote]The leader of a group formed by Georgia Democrat Stacey
Abrams says it can prove that voters were illegally removed from
state rolls over the past few years by the office of former
Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who defeated Abrams in a close
race for governor.
...
The U.S. Supreme Court in June upheld the legality of removing
voters from the rolls because they have failed to vote in an
election cycle or two. Only six states, Georgia included, do
this.
But the Fair Fight Action lawsuit lists at least nine ways in
which Kemp created “an obstacle course for voters” that
primarily affected counties with large numbers of poor and black
citizens.
The obstacles include:
The “exact match” system that placed voters in a “pending”
status based on minor discrepancies between their registration
forms and state records.
Long lines at polling places due to lack of sufficient voting
machines, or because machines malfunctioned.
Reports of voters being told incorrectly that they were not
registered, or that they were registered in other counties.
No paper receipts for votes tallied by electronic machines,
making it impossible to check the results. (Georgia is one of 14
states without a paper trail.)
The closure or relocation of over 300 polling locations since
2012, often in majority-black counties.
Shoddy training by the state for local officials, who gave some
voters inaccurate information about whether they could vote.
Insufficient numbers of provisional ballots, leaving some voters
without any recourse.
Absentee ballots mailed to voters too late for them to use them.
Absentee ballots thrown out over minor typographical errors in
Gwinnet County, which is 60 percent minority, at a higher rate
than the rest of the state.
Kemp “facilitated and permitted different elections systems in
different counties in Georgia,” the suit says. Fair Fight Action
has roughly 10,000 individual stories that it has documented,
and “hundreds” of signed affidavits from voters who say they
encountered one of the many obstacles to voting that Fair Fight
has catalogued.
The lawsuit says that Kemp violated the Constitution’s First,
14th and 15th amendments, as well as the Voting Rights Act of
1965 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002.[/quote]
And will Americans apply the Second Amendment to Kemp's head if
he refuses to resign no matter what?
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Also North Carolina:
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/north-carolina-election-fraud-in
vestigation-centers-on-operative-with-criminal-history-who-worke
d-for-gop-congressional-candidate/2018/12/03/7b270a90-f6aa-11e8-
8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html
[quote]Unusually high numbers of mail-in ballots were requested
in the county — and unusually high numbers of those requested
ballots were never returned, according to state records.
A disproportionate number of unreturned ballots had been sent to
voters of color, who tend to vote Democratic. Nearly 55 percent
of ballots mailed to Native American voters and 36 percent
mailed to African American voters were not returned, while the
non-return rate among white voters in the district was just 18
percent, according to state records.
...
Dowless told him he had a crew of about a dozen workers — many
of whom he saw at the office — who moved from one precinct to
the next, knocking on voters’ doors and offering them ballot
request forms.
Once the absentee ballots were mailed to voters, Dowless used
public lists of mail-in ballot recipients and sent his crew to
collect them and promise to turn them in, Smith said.[/quote]
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Ha!
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/mitch-mcconnell-admits-hes-against-20115
6868.html
[quote]Mitch McConnell Admits He’s Against High Voter Turnout
Because He Suspects People Will Vote for Democrats
Republicans have long had an election problem. The more people
vote, the worse they tend to get beaten. So the solution, since
at least the 1970s, has been pretty cut and dry: Figure out
who's likely to vote against them, and prevent them from voting.
...
On Wednesday, Mitch McConnell once again articulated his
commitment to limiting voter turnout, but this time he didn't
try to hide behind "security concerns." He took to the Senate
floor to voice his opposition to a proposal that Election Day be
made a federal holiday. It's a move that would go a long way to
improving voter turnout and drastically cutting down wait times.
Or, as McConnell sees it, it's a "power grab" by Democrats.
Video of the comments is no better. He mocks the suggestion that
federal employees be granted time off to volunteer at polling
places because, in his words, they're likely to support
Democrats. McConnell doesn't even bother to come up with a
half-assed excuse—instead he exposes his blanket contempt for
government workers because, he suspects, they vote for
Democrats, and for that reason alone, it shouldn't be easier for
them to cast a vote.
This has absolutely nothing to do with voter fraud, the mythical
excuse Republicans keep giving for ever stricter and more
draconian voting rules. McConnell isn't saying here that making
Election Day a federal holiday would compromise election
integrity or that federal employees shouldn't volunteer at
polling places because they would intimidate people. He's
saying, openly and mockingly, that these are bad things because
they could benefit Democrats.[/quote]
At least the issue is increasingly coming to light:
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/stacey-abrams-democratic-rebuttal-state-
180850224.html
[quote]Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was
tapped by Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer
Tuesday, January 29, to give the Democratic rebuttal to
President Trump’s upcoming State of the Union speech — a move
that’s both a genius party strategy and a call to action.
...
Although the former Georgia state representative doesn’t
currently doesn’t hold office, her valiant fight against voter
suppression in Georgia during the midterm elections sends a
clear message to the Republican party. Democrats are keeping an
eye out for Republican attempts at extreme gerrymandering and
the obstruction of electoral participation from Black and
underserved communities throughout the US.
When Abrams finally ended her historic 2018 run for governor
after initially contesting the election’s results, she did so in
order to further fight for voter rights. Generally speaking,
voter suppression happens when parties in charge either change
the rules of who is eligible to cast a ballot or otherwise pose
barriers to voting. The Center for American Progress reports
that some of the suppressive tactics voters encountered during
the 2018 midterm elections included voter record purges,
stricter ID and ballot regulations, purposeful confusion,
intimidation and harassment, poll closures, and malfunctioning
equipment. The Center for American Progress also notes that
“severe voter suppression” was “perhaps uncoincidentally”
reported in states with “highly competitive political races,”
including Texas, Florida, North Dakota, and, of course, Georgia.
After Republicans lost several key votes during last year’s
midterms, reports surfaced that the GOP in at least four states
was working to undermine voting rights in order to maintain
power. Legislatures in states like Wisconsin, Ohio, North
Carolina, and Michigan have all approved measures that make it
harder for people to vote, which could play a major role in the
2020 election cycle.
Former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (who lost during the
midterms) oversaw a series of voting changes that tilted the
state’s elections toward the GOP. Just after he took office in
2011, Wisconsin state Republicans oversaw aggressive electoral
redistricting that seemed purpose-built to ensure the GOP would
maintain two-thirds of the state legislature’s seats. Walker
also signed a bill that broke apart the state’s nonpartisan
ethics and elections commission, replacing it with two separate
bodies staffed by mostly Republican appointees.
In Ohio — a key swing state — Republicans won big in 2018. And
in a state with a record of purging over two million names from
voter rolls between 2011 to 2016, implementing strict voter ID
rules, and cutting early voting access, voter suppression seems
like a major possibility for 2020.
Nationwide, the GOP has defended these suppressive electoral
tactics by arguing that such measures protect against voter
fraud. But claims of high voter fraud are simply not true. In
fact, a Columbia University study found that in the rare cases
that fraud was reported, the culprit was “false claims by the
loser of a close race, mischief and administrative or voter
error.” Voter fraud is actually so rare that courts across the
US have declared it virtually nonexistent, and efforts to cull
it, purposefully discriminatory.
By tapping Abrams to deliver the rebuttal to Trump’s speech,
Democrats are not only acknowledging the work that Black voters
(particularly Black women) continue to do in the name of
progress, but also showing the GOP that their key goal is to
push for equality and voter rights, and that they are ready to
fight.[/quote]
Still, as I keep saying, Abrams' activism does not imply any
less reason for leftists to purchase firearms.
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And we're told by rightists like James O' Keefe (Gentile), that
they're the ones who are getting purged. Gimme a break.
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Busted!
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/21/18231981/north-carolin
a-election-fraud-new-nc-9-election
[quote]Over the past four days, state investigators laid out in
detail an “unlawful,” “coordinated,” and well-funded plot to
tamper with absentee ballots in a US House election that
remained uncalled more than three months after Election Day —
finally bringing some clarity to one of the strangest election
scandals in recent memory.
State investigators established their theory of the case — that
a Republican operative, Leslie McCrae Dowless, directed a
coordinated scheme to unlawfully collect, falsely witness, and
otherwise tamper with absentee ballots — and workers who say
they had assisted him in the scheme delivered damning testimony
describing their activities. Dowless himself refused to testify,
on the advice of his lawyer.[/quote]
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dl2lgpnUZg
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lzrIsQecKY
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/01/voter-purges-us-election
s-brennan-center-report
[quote]US election jurisdictions with histories of egregious
voter discrimination have been purging voter rolls at a rate 40%
beyond the national average, according to a watchdog report
released on Thursday.
At least 17 million voters were purged nationwide between 2016
and 2018, according to a study by the Brennan Center for
Justice. The number was basically unchanged from the previous
two-year period.
...
A federal court for North Dakota on Wednesday upheld a law
requiring voters to have a residential street address, rejecting
a complaint by a Native American group that the law amounted to
voter suppression, because many of its members had no such
address.
A dissenting judge said the law had a “devastating effect” on
Native American voters. The Columbia University professor
Katherine Franke tweeted that the ruling was a “huge setback for
Native American voting rights”.
...
“As the country prepares for the 2020 election, election
administrators should take steps to ensure that every eligible
American can cast a ballot next November,” the Brennan Center
said in a statement. “Election day is often too late to discover
that a person has been wrongfully purged.”[/quote]
Guess which side this helps?
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Re: Voter suppression
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 9, 2020, 2:58 am
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OLD CONTENT contd.
Some history:
news.yahoo.com/how-a-criminal-investigation-in-georgia-set-a-dar
k-tone-for-african-american-voters-090000532.html
(I recommend reading the whole thing)
[quote]Dennard, a county school board member who had just turned
50 and recently helped elect a slate of new candidates, slept in
that morning and was still in bed when her husband left for work
a little after 7 a.m. She thought it odd when he returned a few
minutes later to wake her. “There’s some people here that want
to see you,” he told her. “They’re law enforcement.”
Dennard was taken away in handcuffs, placed in a squad car and
spirited into the police station.
The early-morning arrest began a multiyear nightmare for the
mother of two. The state government, operating under the
authority of a newly appointed secretary of state named Brian
Kemp, arrested Dennard and 11 of her political allies and
charged them with 120 separate felonies.
To Dennard and her allies, who became known as the Quitman 10+2,
the reasons for their arrests were simple. They were black
candidates who won an election in the Deep South, upsetting a
white-dominated power structure.
“They thought they could make an example out of me, and that
would kill the spirit of this movement,” said Dennard, who has a
master’s degree in speech pathology, as well as an educational
doctorate. “I knew we had done nothing wrong.”
Yet the mug shots taken at the jail that first day of
African-Americans wearing orange jumpsuits would be an enduring
image. The photos were plastered across newspaper front pages,
broadcast repeatedly on local TV news and finally displayed on
the screens of Fox News viewers as evidence of voter fraud.
...
It created an impression in the African-American community that
any attempts to aggressively claim the right to vote would be
punished, and the punishments portrayed as an act of justice.
...
The Quitman story also helps explain why many, especially in the
African-American community, look at the policies Kemp enacted
during his time as secretary of state and see them as part of a
larger pattern in Georgia — and in many other states around the
country — where the law, government authority and conservative
media are used to try to intimidate them away from exercising
political power.
It’s incidents like these that prompted Stacey Abrams, when she
ran for governor against Kemp in 2018, to say during their
debate that “voter suppression isn’t only about blocking the
vote, it’s also about creating an atmosphere of fear.”
...
Quitman is the seat of Brooks County, which is named after Rep.
Preston Brooks, who was not even from Georgia. Brooks, of South
Carolina, infamously beat Sen. Charles Sumner within an inch of
his life on the floor of the Senate, in 1856, for his criticism
of slavery. Brooks was seen as a hero in many parts of the South
for his brutal caning of Sumner, who was from Massachusetts. In
1858, when the Georgia Legislature decided to divide Lowndes
County into two, it named the new locale after Brooks, the man
who almost killed a fellow member of Congress. A grammatically
incorrect plaque standing today in the town square of Quitman,
erected in 1954 by the Georgia Historical Commission, describes
Preston Brooks only as a “zealous defender of States Rights.”
After the Civil War, Brooks County was a hotbed of racial
terrorism by white supremacists bent on maintaining the ethnic
caste system that had been in place during slavery. Of all
Georgia counties, it had the third-highest number of lynchings
from 1877 to 1950, according to the Equal Justice Initiative.
This was due in large part to two outbreaks of violence by white
mobs, one in 1894 and the other in 1918. In the second episode,
mobs lynched at least 13 people over a two-week period after a
black worker murdered an abusive white plantation owner. One of
those lynched was Mary Turner, a 33-year-old mother of two who
was eight months pregnant.
Turner’s lynching, which occurred just over the Brooks County
line in neighboring Lowndes County, was one of the most horrific
in American history. She was hung upside down, burned alive, and
her unborn child was cut out of her and stomped on. The mob then
riddled her body with bullets.
In 2010, a marker was erected by the Mary Turner Project — a
group created to remember Turner and to advocate for social
justice in the local community — at the spot where she is
believed to have been killed. In the few years since then, the
plaque — made out of a heavy metal material — has been shot at
by those who apparently resent the memory of that history. There
are 13 bullet holes in all, matching the number of known victims
in the century-old rampage.
...
In the 2010 election, the July primary was the key contest,
since most voters, including white conservatives, still all
voted Democratic at the time. Dennard had recruited two
African-American women to run for two seats on the school board:
Diane Thomas, a middle-school math teacher, and Linda Troutman,
a lifelong educator.
...
black turnout tripled from the previous two midterm elections,
going up to 1,461 votes. That was more than the 1,259 whites who
voted in the Democratic primary. Troutman and Thomas both won.
Absentee ballots made the difference.
...
In the meantime, the two white Democrats who had lost to Thomas
and Troutman in the Democratic primary — Mayra Exum and Gary
Rentz — got permission from a circuit judge to run again in the
fall general election as write-in candidates. The decision
ignored a sore-loser law in the state that usually prevents
candidates from running in the same election twice.
...
When voters went to the polls a few weeks later, Troutman and
Thomas won again, even though white turnout was higher than
black turnout by a little more than 300 votes.
Six weeks later, state and local police showed up at Dennard’s
home at 7:39 a.m. and arrested her. Within an hour, Thomas and
Troutman — the two new school board members — had been arrested,
as had Smart. And by 10:15 a.m., authorities had rounded up 10
people in all.
It was almost a full year before any charges were brought
against Dennard and the others. The same week that those charges
were filed, authorities arrested two more women: Debra Dennard
and Brenda Monds, making the Quitman 10 into the Quitman 10+2. A
different district attorney, Joe Mulholland, filed 120 felony
counts against the 12 individuals on Nov. 22, 2011.
...
In an interview with Yahoo News, Mulholland grew agitated when
asked about whether it had been appropriate to talk about the
Quitman defendants as if they were already guilty before a trial
had taken place. “I think that’s pretty much the most ridiculous
question I’ve been asked by a journalist in the last 16 years.
Congratulations! You can quote me on that too,” he said.
Nancy Dennard was charged with eight counts of “unlawful
possession of ballots” and three counts of “interfering with an
elector.” Smart was the biggest target. She was charged with 25
counts of “unlawful possession” and seven counts of
“interfering.”
Each felony charge carried at least a year in jail, and the
charges of interfering — or marking an actual ballot for someone
else — carried up to 10 years in prison. Nancy Dennard was
staring at potentially three decades in jail, and Smart was
looking at possibly the rest of her life in confinement. Every
member of the group, in fact, was facing at least two decades in
jail.
...
When Yahoo News asked Mulholland why he charged Debra Dennard
with felonies for helping her disabled parents, Mulholland
maintained that what she had done was not legal, and based this
assertion on the fact that a grand jury had indicted her.
“You don’t charge and indict people with something that’s legal.
That would be a violation of my oath as an officer of the
court,” Mulholland told Yahoo News.
...
the state held on to the case, and offered a series of plea
deals to the Quitman 10+2, according to Dennard.
“If you've got 10 people, surely of the 10, you can just get one
person to say, ‘I'll take a guilty plea,’” Dennard said, musing
on the thought process of Kemp’s office and the prosecutors.
“That’s all they would have wanted to get out of that.”
...
In the fall of 2014, Troutman and Thomas, still under
indictment, were both defeated in their attempts to seek
reelection, and the board flipped back to majority white
control.
...
For the next four years, the Quitman 10+2 lived under a legal
cloud as the prosecutors dragged their feet. One of the Quitman
10+2, Latashia Head — facing five felony counts — died during
this time. Diane Thomas’s mother, Rosie, had to close her
restaurant, in part because her daughter Lula Smart could no
longer work there.
Smart fell into despair during this period. “I was actually
thinking about killing myself,” she said. “I thought, ‘If I just
commit suicide, this will be over for Diane and them.’”
In the fall of 2013, Smart went to trial, but that ended in a
mistrial. But the prosecution wanted to try her again. A second
trial in April 2014 also ended in a mistrial.
When Smart’s third and final trial finally began in August 2014,
the only evidence of an infraction were five cases in which
Smart appears to have helped voters fill out their ballot
without filling out the oath on the back of the ballot saying
she had done so. After a nearly monthlong process, the jury
returned a verdict in September 2014: not guilty on all counts.
...
Prosecutor Lalaine Briones maintains to this day that Smart was
guilty.
...
Smart said that despite the stress and trauma of the ordeal,
their refusal to seek a plea deal and then their exoneration in
the court of law was a huge victory for the African-American
community. “Now the people know that you don’t have to just be
afraid to vote,” Smart said. “They’re not used to black people
being in charge, and that’s something they don’t like because
they’ve been in charge their whole lives. It’s hard for them to
deal with it. But we’re doing good.”
...
The Quitman 10+2 said there has never been an apology or
restitution from the local or state officials who pushed the
case forward.
...
Kemp, who spent eight years as secretary of state, has seen his
political future soar — in part, according to his critics, by
suppressing the minority vote. In the 2018 gubernatorial
election, Kemp ran as the Republican candidate while also
overseeing the election as secretary of state. His Democratic
opponent, Stacey Abrams, called him an “architect of voter
suppression,” and her allies said Kemp erected an “obstacle
course” of hurdles to voting for poor people and minorities in
Georgia.[/quote]
Moral: If you are "non-white", you are guilty until proven
innocent, they will force you to waste literally years of your
life proving your innocence (all the while tempting you to plead
guilty in order to end the torture), and even after that they
will still believe that you are guilty (and that you were able
to prove your innocence only confirms that the system is as
"anti-White" as they claim it is).
Real moral: NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET. And buy firearms.
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Update from Abrams:
www.huffpost.com/entry/stacey-abrams-fair-fight-2020_n_5d532e54e
4b0c63bcbeed757
[quote]Stacey Abrams, the former Democratic candidate for
Georgia governor, is not running for president in 2020 ―
instead, she’ll be launching an initiative to better protect
voters in battleground states ahead of the election.
In a speech Tuesday at the International Union of Painters and
Allied Trades convention in Las Vegas, Abrams announced her new
Fair Fight 2020 project, which aims to fund and train teams to
develop a “voter protection infrastructure” across 20 states
nationwide, according to a news release.
“I’m going to use my energy and my very loud voice to raise the
money we need to train people in states to make sure [President
Donald] Trump… take a hike,” said Abrams, a former state
representative. “To make sure every ballot gets counted … we are
going to fight to make sure every voice is heard, every eligible
American who should have the vote will be able to."[/quote]
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqNvVI6ACVs
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX1RBe7xswE
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOiSLBsKSLg
Also, another thing we should raise awareness of is
gerrymandering:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6GTpyhCL80
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ftFGJy2ms
North Carolina has recently stood up against this:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feIcj2onFZo
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"I see it is going to be a struggle for the True Left to
convince non-whites to give up on democracy now that this
demographic shift is swinging in non-whites favor. The thought
that could come to many non-whites mind I imagine would be
something similar to: "How convenient for you to be
anti-democracy now that democracy is swinging in non-white
favor"
Firstly, we are not just anti-democracy in the US. Our
anti-democracy allows us to attack states such as Israel,
Hungary, Myanmar, etc.. Are the pro-democracy "non-whites" you
speak of willing to also support those democratic states, having
seen the cruelty against their minorities that their majorities
proudly support?
Secondly, this is why I consider promoting an anti-Western
consciousness - which is what we are doing here - preferable to
a mere "non-white" consciousness. A "non-white" can still be a
Westerner, and hence pro-democracy (since democracy is a
uniquely Western idea). (Aung San Suu Kyi is the best example of
this.) A anti-Westerner, on the other hand, has a duty to
cleanse the world of Western ideas, certainly including
democracy. Therefore those who think of themselves as
anti-Westerners (or at least non-Westerners) first can be
expected to be more reliable anti-democrats than those who think
of themselves as "non-whites" first.
Thirdly, we should emphasize that Demographic Blueshift is not
just for voting. Demographic Blueshift also manifests in
personnel ratios within the armed forces and other institutions,
as well as simply about the ratios of firearm owners on each
side. Therefore abandoning democracy does not negate the
advantages of Demographic Blueshift. On the other hand, if our
side is misled into believing that Demographic Blueshift is
solely about voting advantage, they may lazily neglect to join
the armed forces etc. and/or own firearms, and thus be really
caught off-guard when the conflict moves from elections to war!
Turning our side anti-democratic should actually increase their
motivation to join the armed forces etc. and own firearms as
they must consider how to make Demographic Blueshift work should
voting be taken out of the calculation.
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Abrams quote of the day:
news.yahoo.com/why-stacey-abrams-still-wont-concede-194648579.ht
ml
[quote]Stacey Abrams lost her 2018 bid for the Georgia
governorship last November in a contentious race against
then-Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
And despite acknowledging Kemp as the legal victor, Abrams has
refused to officially concede the election.
“Concession in the political space is an acknowledgment that the
process was fair,” she told Yahoo News. “And I don't believe
that to be so.”[/quote]
This is the attitude I like to see!
Also:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmsXwB1EOHo
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www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/news
/107242/jeremy-corbyn-accuses-ministers-trying-%E2%80%98suppress
%E2%80%99
[quote]Under a new electoral integrity bill, revealed in
Monday's Queen's Speech, voters will need to present
photographic ID before casting their ballot at any election.
But the Labour leader said the move was “clearly discriminatory”
as the proposals would “disproportionately” hit minority groups.
Speaking ahead of a visit to the Black Cultural Archives in
south London, Mr Corbyn said: “These plans are clearly
discriminatory and a blatant attempt by the Tories to suppress
voters, deny people their democratic rights and rig the result
of the next General Election.”[/quote]
What else is new?
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9h63EBjs2k
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Re: Voter suppression
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 9, 2020, 3:03 am
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OLD CONTENT contd.
Abrams on the case:
news.yahoo.com/im-not-convinced-fair-elections-110109125.html
[quote]“We are in a different era of voter suppression,” Abrams
says. “But unfortunately it is a continued lineage of voter
suppression that began with the inception of our country.”
...
We first meet on a bright and humid summer’s afternoon in an
upmarket Atlanta suburb a few blocks from the headquarters of
her new national voting rights campaign, Fair Fight 2020.
The campaign is now in its infancy, but aims to create a vast
voter protection drive across the country, supporting teams in
20 battleground states to aid with registration and boost
turnout among minority groups next year.
In September she appeared on stage at a concert with the pop
artist Lizzo in New York, delivering a rousing speech urging
young attendees to become part of the campaign. This was part of
a broader goal of engaging younger communities of color by
pushing the voting rights struggle into popular culture.
“Every one of you is responsible for finding a rule that is
wrong,” she told the crowd. “I want you to break that rule and
write a new one.”[/quote]
fairfight.com/fair-fight-2020/
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www.courthousenews.com/trial-begins-in-alabama-over-claims-of-ra
cially-gerrymandered-election-districts/
[quote]Under questioning by Perkins Coie attorney Bruce Spiva,
Cooper said the state’s 2011 congressional redistricting map
placed about a third of the black population of the state in the
7th District, and three districts – districts one, two and three
– had black voting-age populations ranging between 24% to 28% of
the districts’ overall populations.
The populations in those three districts, Cooper said, was a
“clear example” of cracking – or breaking up – pockets of voters
in order to break up their voting power.
Altogether, the black populations in districts one, two and
three totaled more than 575,000 – which could almost make up an
entire congressional district.[/quote]
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Abrams interviewed:
www.politico.com/news/2019/11/20/stacey-abrams-voter-suppression
-2020-obama-072235
[quote]Talk about what steps you'll take beyond this initial
phone banking to address these voters, and how else you're
fighting this purge?
So voter purges, when they happen, the most important part of
the process is ensuring that the people who are likely to be
purged know what's coming and know what their rights are. We
have been combing through the list since it was released a few
weeks ago...verifying names, doing our initial vet of who should
have been purged and who should not. There were [some] people
whose names were [put] on the list improperly because they've
recently voted.
And so what we will be doing is an initial texting and phone
banking and that's what's happening on Thursday. That's a
massive event where we're taking advantage of the attention
that's being paid in the state and the capacity to reach people
because they are going to be more alert to this. We're working
with other organizations, we're working with the state party and
we're working with anyone who has an interest in this across the
aisle because voter purges are not [partisan] — in Georgia you
don't register by party and so we don't know who's being purged.
But our mission is to make certain that no one is taken off of
the rolls improperly.
Has voter suppression gotten enough attention this cycle?
On their own I think almost every one of the top-tier candidates
has made a statement about voter suppression. [But] we have not
heard enough of it on the national stage, and that's why I've
been trying to bring the debate to Georgia, and more importantly
making certain that this is a [national] conversation. It's hard
to come to Georgia and not have a conversation about voter
suppression.
What do you hope to hear from candidates?
I hope to hear, one, an acknowledgment from the moderators that
this is a national scourge and deserves the same degree of
attention as any other topic. Because all of the progress we
speak of as Democrats rests on the ability of voters to be heard
and to participate in our process. You cannot have an effective
health care system or laws that move our health care system
forward, you cannot pass laws to address climate change if we do
not have the right to vote. So I want the moderators, because
they control the tenor of the debate, to put that forward. And
then I want thoughtful answers from those men and women standing
on stage. Because because it's how they've gotten their jobs if
they've been elected to office. And it's how they will get this
job.[/quote]
At least our enemies have made Abrams famous:
www.yahoo.com/entertainment/stacey-abrams-building-kind-politica
l-130008042.html
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us.yahoo.com/news/black-woman-faces-prison-because-110019317.htm
l
[quote]Lanisha Bratcher was finishing breakfast at home one
morning at the end of July when there was a knock on her door.
She had been discharged from the hospital the night before
following a miscarriage that left her mourning the loss of her
child.
Her partner opened the door – it was the police. They burst into
their North Carolina home “like the Dukes of Hazzard”, Bratcher
said. There was a warrant out for her arrest, they told her.
Bratcher had no idea what for.
Her crime? Voting in the 2016 presidential election.
Bratcher faces up to 19 months in prison because she did not
realize she had actually been stripped of the right to vote. Her
lawyer says she’s being punished based on a Jim Crow-era law
that was intended to disenfranchise African Americans.
Bratcher was on probation after being convicted of assault and
North Carolina law mandates that people convicted of felonies
can only vote once they complete their criminal sentences,
including probation and parole, entirely.
...
The state’s policy of banning people convicted of felonies from
voting is rooted in a late 19th century effort by North Carolina
Democrats to limit voting power of newly-enfranchised African
Americans as whole. In 1898, the North Carolina Democratic party
spoke of the need “to rescue the white people of the east from
the curse of negro domination”.
Since then, North Carolina lawmakers have tweaked the law, but
its core – stripping felons of their voting rights while they
serve criminal sentences – remains in place.
John Carella, Bratcher’s lawyer, noted the vast majority of the
people caught up in the law are African American. “A law that is
intended to racially discriminate against a group is
unconstitutional,” he said. “We also know it continues to work
that way in its modern application to the 2016 election.”
Carella argues that the goal is to dissuade black voters from
going to the polls. That could make a big difference in North
Carolina, a fiercely politically competitive state expected to
play a key role in the 2020 election.
In Bratcher’s case, it seems to have worked. She’s not sure if
she’ll ever vote again, even once she’s legally allowed to.
“It seems really dangerous,” she said.
...
Torris Jones, Bratcher’s husband, said he understands her new
apprehension about voting, but sees it differently.
“If you don’t vote again, then the law would have done exactly
what it was supposed to do, which is to suppress your vote,” he
said. “If they’ve got you afraid, then the law did what it’s
supposed to do.”[/quote]
Also:
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/31/voter-purges-republicans
-2020-elections-trump
one of Trump’s reelection advisers was caught on tape telling a
Wisconsin Republicans that the party has “traditionally” relied
on voter suppression. “Traditionally it’s always been
Republicans suppressing votes in places. Let’s start protecting
our voters. We know where they are,” the adviser, Justin Clark,
said in audio obtained by the Associated Press. “Let’s start
playing offense a little bit. That’s what you’re going to see in
2020. It’s going to be a much bigger program, a much more
aggressive program, a much better-funded program.”
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More and more skeletons fall out of the closet:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/27/arizona-republicans-inte
ntionally-discriminated-against-minority-voters-court-rules
A federal court has ruled Arizona Republicans’ ban on mail-in
ballots is illegal and unconstitutional, calling it
intentionally discriminatory toward people of color, who already
face increased barriers to voting.
The ruling is a major victory for the Democratic party, which
filed the suit, and will likely make it easier for minorities to
get their ballots counted in the largely red state.
Four years ago, Arizona Republicans made it a felony, punishable
by prison time, for third-party groups to collect mail-in
ballots during elections – a process often called “ballot
harvesting.”
Marginalized communities in the state may rely more on ballot
harvesting, the court noted. Native Americans, for example,
benefit significantly from third-party ballot collection efforts
because just 18% of registered voters have mail service at home,
and reservations can be far from polling stations. Some minority
communities also have widespread distrust in the mailing system:
in San Luis, a city that is 98% Hispanic, a major highway
separates 13,000 residents from the nearest post office.
“The adverse impact on minority communities is substantial.
Without ‘access to reliable and secure mail services,’ and
without reliable transportation, many minority voters ‘prefer
instead to give their ballots to a volunteer’,” the court said.
And Hispanics and Native Americans make up nearly 37% of the
state’s population – promising to be a key demographic in this
year’s presidential election.
The ruling noted that the Republican effort to restrict
third-party ballot collection appeared to be part of a
longstanding effort to suppress black, Hispanic and Native
American votes. Republicans passed a similar law in 2011, but
abandoned the effort after a state election official admitted
that the measure was designed to target voting activity in
Hispanic areas.
The court also struck down a separate state policy that required
election officials to throw out ballots if someone voted in the
wrong precinct. But voters faced some egregious challenges. At
times they were directed to the wrong precinct, without being
told their vote wouldn’t count, the court noted. And Arizona
changes its polling locations with unusual frequency and
rejected 38,355 ballots from people who voted in the wrong place
between 2008 to 2016. (Minority voters were more than twice as
likely than their white counterparts to cast a ballot out of
their precinct.)
This is why it is so important to have fair judges in the
courts. Unfortunately:
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Not all bad news, though:
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Re: Voter suppression
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 9, 2020, 3:09 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ9irKMyUok
More details:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/texas-polling-sites-clos
ures-voting
The solution requires the Second Amendment.
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his takes the cake:
www.bet.com/news/national/2020/03/10/kansas-city-mayor-quinton-l
ucas-told-by-poll-worker-he-wasnt-in-.html
[quote]Moments after making a plea for people to get out and
vote in the Missouri primary Tuesday, Kansas City Mayor Quinton
Lucas was turned away from the polls and told by a poll worker
that he “wasn’t in the system” to cast his ballot.
Lucas showed up to vote at 7am in the same place he said he has
voted since 2009. Soon after, he posted a message on Twitter
saying he was not allowed to cast a ballot because a poll worker
could not find his registration.[/quote]
Still think voter purging targeting "non-white" voters is a
conspiracy theory?
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For Reds, the coronavirus pandemic is an opportunity for even
more voter suppression:
www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-block-most-aid-to-help-states-pla
n-for-presidential-election-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-223136209.
html
[quote]WASHINGTON — Voting reforms that would make it much
easier to cast ballots by mail in the fall presidential election
were left out of the $2 trillion rescue package that was
unveiled Wednesday
...
“In times of crisis, the American people cannot be forced to
choose between their health and exercising their right to vote,”
Klobuchar and Wyden said in a statement. “We must enact election
reforms across the country as well as secure more resources to
guarantee safe and secure elections. We will continue to fight
to pass the Natural Disaster and Emergency Ballot Act of 2020 to
ensure every eligible American can safely and lawfully cast
their ballot.”
...
The idea of broadening access to voting by mail has yet to be
embraced by Republican politicians in Washington. No GOP members
of Congress have backed the reforms, and some hard-line
Republicans have railed against the idea.
Conservative think tankers said universal mail voting would
“make it easier to manipulate election outcomes and commit
fraud.”[/quote]
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www.vox.com/2020/4/6/21211378/supreme-court-coronavirus-voting-r
ights-disenfranchise-rnc-dnc
[quote]a dozen other states have chosen to postpone similar
elections to protect the safety of voters. Democrats hoped to
defend a lower court order that allowed absentee ballots to be
counted so long as they arrived at the designated polling place
by April 13, an extension granted by a judge to account for the
brewing coronavirus-sparked chaos on Election Day, April 7.
Republicans successfully asked the Court to require these
ballots to be postmarked by April 7.
...
The April 7 election is shaping up to be a train wreck. Most
poll workers have refused to work the election, out of fear of
catching the coronavirus, which forced Gov. Tony Evers (D) to
call up the National Guard in order to keep polls open. But even
this measure appears woefully inadequate. In Milwaukee, election
officials announced that the state only has enough election
workers to open five poll locations — when the city would
normally have 180 polling places.
Meanwhile, the state has received a crush of absentee ballot
requests — about 1.2 million, when it typically receives fewer
than 250,000 in a spring election. That’s left state officials
scrambling to send ballots to voters in time for Tuesday’s
election. And on top of all these complications, a state law
required all ballots to be received by election officials by 8
pm on April 7, or else those ballots would not be counted.
Tens of thousands of voters are not expected to even receive
their ballots until after Election Day, effectively
disenfranchising them through no fault of their own.
In response to this brewing catastrophe, Judge William Conley,
an Obama appointee to a federal court in Wisconsin, ordered the
deadline for receiving ballots to be extended to 4 pm on April
13. In response to this order, the Republican Party asked the
Supreme Court to modify Conley’s decision to require all ballots
to be postmarked by April 7 or they will not be counted.
The Supreme Court’s Republican majority granted the GOP this
very specific request.
...
It means that if voting rights advocates discover in the final
days before an election that a new state law is disenfranchising
African American voters — or a pandemic keeps away most voters —
federal courts most likely would not intervene. It means that
many problems that are unlikely to be discovered until Election
Day itself will go unaddressed.
...
The Supreme Court’s decision in Republican is the capstone of a
weeks-long effort by the Republican Party to make it difficult
for voters to actually cast a ballot in Wisconsin. Last week,
Gov. Evers called the state legislature into session and asked
it to delay the election. But the Republican-controlled
legislature ended that session just seconds after it was
convened. After Evers acted on his own authority to delay the
election, the state’s Supreme Court voted along partisan lines
to rescind Evers’s order. Republicans also rejected Evers’s
proposal to automatically mail ballots to every voter in the
state.
The background is that Republicans hope to hold on to a seat on
the state Supreme Court, which is up for grabs in Tuesday’s
election. As law professor and election law expert Rick Hasen
recently noted, “only 38% of voters who had requested an
absentee ballot in heavily Democratic Milwaukee County had
returned one, compared with over 56% of absentee voters in
nearby Republican-leaning Waukesha County.” So there’s at least
some evidence that if additional voters are unable to return
their ballots, Republicans will be overrepresented in the
ballots that are counted.
It’s also worth noting that if Wisconsin had free and fair
elections to choose its state lawmakers, Evers would most likely
have been able to work with a Democratic legislature to ensure
that Tuesday’s election would be conducted fairly. In 2018, 54
percent of voters chose a Democratic candidate for the state
Assembly. But Republicans have so completely gerrymandered the
state that they prevailed in 63 of the state’s 99 Assembly
races.
There is far more at stake in Wisconsin, moreover, than one
state Supreme Court seat. Wisconsin could be the pivotal swing
state that decides the 2020 presidential election. The question
of whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden occupies the White House
next year could easily be determined by which man receives
Wisconsin’s electoral votes.
And the Court’s decision in Republican suggests that the Supreme
Court will give the GOP broad leeway in how US elections should
be conducted.[/quote]
Which is why I said that application of the Second Amendment by
civilians should have become involved in this long ago.
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It doesn't get more serious than this:
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/23/coronavirus-fight-to-vot
e-us-voters
[quote]This early work is critical to campaigns trying to build
a support base for election day. But this year, the Covid-19
pandemic has made it nearly impossible to register new voters.
Limited voter registration is most likely to affect young
people, minority groups, and naturalized immigrants, groups
projected to contribute to record-high turnout in November.
Freezing them out is likely to benefit Republicans, who tend to
see a more diverse and younger electorate as a threat.
In Kentucky, where Mitch McConnell faces a closely-watched
Senate re-election battle in November, just 504 people
registered in March as Covid-19 restrictions went in to effect.
By comparison, more than 7,200 voters registered the month
before.
...
It is almost impossible, for example, to register to vote in New
Hampshire right now. The swing state is one of a handful that
doesn’t let voters register online. The local election offices
are closed. Last week, state officials said anyone fearful of
the virus could register to vote by mail – but the process is
complicated.
“When I called my city clerk’s office, she said, ‘Well, once
Covid-19 is over, you can register to vote,’” said Olivia Zink,
the executive director of Open Democracy, a civic action group.
It could be several more months before offices fully reopen.
Many of the missing voters may be young people. Voters aged 18
to 23 are expected to be 10% of all eligible voters this year –
a larger proportion than in 2016. But they may also be
first-time voters, unfamiliar with how to register.
Activists say states like Texas, which like New Hampshire has no
online registration, make it even harder for this group.
“Our state is living in an outdated political process. And that
political process is strategically disenfranchising a new wave
of voters,” said Antonio Arellano, the interim executive
director of Jolt, a Texas advocacy group that targets young
Latino voters. “Some of them may fall through the cracks.”
Texas is also projected to become majority Hispanic by 2022, and
Republicans fear those changes will hurt their electoral
chances, said Luke Warford, voter expansion director for the
Texas Democratic party.
...
Newly naturalized immigrants, another important voting bloc, may
also be disenfranchised this year. US Citizen and Immigration
Services cancelled citizenship oath ceremonies and in-person
interviews, which could leave about 441,000 nearly naturalized
citizens unable to vote in November, according to NBC
News.[/quote]
Demographic Blueshift vs voter suppression; which will win? The
stakes have never been higher.
www.texasdemocrats.org/are-you-registered-to-vote/
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I like to see leftists planning for the worst:
us.yahoo.com/news/trump-sows-doubt-voting-keeps-163356143.html
WASHINGTON — In October, President Donald Trump declares a state
of emergency in major cities in battleground states, like
Milwaukee and Detroit, banning polling places from opening.
A week before the election, Attorney General William Barr
announces a criminal investigation into the Democratic
presidential nominee, Joe Biden.
After Biden wins a narrow Electoral College victory, Trump
refuses to accept the results, won’t leave the White House and
declines to allow the Biden transition team customary access to
agencies before the Jan. 20 inauguration.
Far-fetched conspiracy theories? Not to a group of worst-case
scenario planners — mostly Democrats, but some anti-Trump
Republicans as well — who have been gaming out various doomsday
options for the 2020 presidential election. Outraged by Trump
and fearful that he might try to disrupt the campaign before,
during and after Election Day, they are engaged in a process
that began in the realm of science fiction but has nudged closer
to reality as Trump and his administration abandon long-standing
political norms.
The anxiety has intensified in recent weeks as the president
continues to attack the integrity of mail voting and insinuate
that the election system is rigged, while his Republican allies
ramp up efforts to control who can vote and how. Just last week,
Trump threatened to withhold funding from states that defy his
wishes on expanding mail voting, while also amplifying unfounded
claims of voter fraud in battleground states.
“In the eight to 10 months I’ve been yapping at people about
this stuff, the reactions have gone from, ‘Don’t be silly, that
won’t happen,’ to an increasing sense of, ‘You know, that could
happen,’” said Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University law
professor. Earlier this year, Brooks convened an informal group
of Democrats and never-Trump Republicans to brainstorm about
ways the Trump administration could disrupt the election and to
think about ways to prevent it.
But the anxiety is hardly limited to outside groups.
Marc Elias, a Washington lawyer who leads the Democratic
National Committee’s legal efforts to fight voter suppression
measures, said not a day goes by when he doesn’t field a
question from senior Democratic officials about whether Trump
could postpone or cancel the election. Prodded by allies to
explain why not, Elias wrote a column on the subject in late
March for his website — and it drew more traffic than anything
he’d ever published.
But changing the date of the election is not what worries Elias.
The bigger threat in his mind is the possibility that the Trump
administration could act in October to make it harder for people
to vote in urban centers in battleground states — possibilities,
he said, that include declaring a state of emergency, deploying
the National Guard or forbidding gatherings of more than 10
people.
Such events could serve to depress or discourage turnout in
pockets of the country that reliably vote for Democrats.
...
“We assume he may well resort to any kind of trick, ploy or
scheme he can in order to hold onto his presidency. We have
built a strong program to plan for and address every possibility
to ensure that he does not succeed.”
Trump has said he expects the election to be held Nov. 3 as
scheduled, and under federal law he does not have the power to
unilaterally postpone it. But a recent comment by the
president’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner about whether
the election would be held as scheduled — “I’m not sure I can
commit one way or another,” he said — renewed fears that Trump
would try to move the election or discredit the balloting
process if he thought he was going to lose.
...
The president attacked mail balloting again Sunday morning, with
a baseless claim that it would lead to “the greatest Rigged
Election in history.”
...
“We’re setting ourselves up for an election where neither side
can concede defeat,” Foley said. “That suggests that the desire
to dispute the outcome is going to be higher than ever.”
But do enough leftists understand what is required as a
countermeasure?
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Re: Voter suppression
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 17, 2020, 4:18 am
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Re: Voter suppression
By: guest5 Date: July 17, 2020, 8:02 pm
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The Supreme Court Just Stopped 1 Million Floridians From Voting
in November
[quote]The Supreme Court all but guaranteed that nearly 1
million Floridians will be unable to vote in the 2020 election
because of unpaid court debts in a shattering order handed down
on Thursday. Its decision will throw Florida’s voter
registration into chaos, placing a huge number of would-be
voters in legal limbo and even opening them up to prosecution
for casting a ballot. The justices have effectively permitted
Florida Republicans to impose a poll tax in November.[/quote]
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Re: Voter suppression
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 18, 2020, 11:28 pm
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Everyone knows it now:
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[quote]Speaking to CNN later that day, Wylie also said that
Bannon, a former advisor to President Trump both before and
after the election, had directed the political data consultancy
to conduct research on suppressing Black voters, among other
groups. [/quote]
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Re: Voter suppression
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 21, 2020, 3:17 pm
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[quote]In March, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
announced all in-person naturalization interviews had been
suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic, said Randy Capps,
director of research for U.S. programs at the Migration Policy
Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization.
The agency also suspended naturalization oath ceremonies, the
final step immigrants go through to become U.S. citizens after
passing their naturalization interview, Capps said.
...
"Everyone who doesn't get an oath ceremony or doesn't get a
completed application process by October obviously is not going
to be able to vote in the next election, at least in Arizona,"
Capps said.
Voter registration deadlines vary by state. In most states, the
deadline is in October. A handful of states allow voters to
register in person on Election Day.
About 315,000 immigrants may not be able to vote in the November
election because their citizenship applications won't be
completed in time, according to an analysis of previous USCIS
data by Boundless Immigration, a technology company that assists
immigrants navigate the immigration system.
...
Wang said immigrants tend to vote Democratic, which may give the
Trump administration less incentive to work through the backlog
of immigrants waiting to complete the citizenship
process.[/quote]
Increasingly brazen voter suppression is rightists' only
countermeasure to Demographic Blueshift.
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Re: Voter suppression
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 1, 2020, 1:52 pm
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[quote]What Happened to Stacey Abrams Will Happen to Joe Biden
...
Look alive, America: What happened to Stacey Abrams is about to
happen nationally.
If you recall, the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race was rife with
voter suppression, voter disinformation, and finally the
downright theft of an election by Brian Kemp, the secretary of
state and Republican candidate. Kemp used his authority as
secretary of state to control the allocation of resources,
ballots, and election day procedures in one of the most
egregious abuses of electoral power this side of Bush v. Gore.
What Kemp did to Abrams in November of 2018 laid out a winning
dirty playbook that the GOP is about to roll out nationwide,
with partisan officials charged with running state elections
using voter suppression and disenfranchisement tactics to chip
away at Democratic votes and the electoral process itself. As
we’ve seen in primaries over the last few months, expect long
lines, inadequate numbers of poll workers and ballots in certain
(Democratic) areas, and white nationalists serving as de facto
security guards at select polling sites throughout the South and
Midwest.
...
One of the dark and dishonest talking points the president often
returns to, most recently in his tweet Thursday musing about
just rain-checking the election, is the idea that Americans
cheat at the polls (and specifically that they cheat against
him). Although most members of his administration (and family)
routinely vote by mail, the president has insisted that the use
of the U.S. Postal Service is a means of increasing voter fraud.
In fact, not only did the president and vice president vote by
mail, so did the president’s wife and daughter Ivanka, Attorney
General Bill Barr, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, and
roughly a dozen other inner Trump circle officials. Essentially,
Republicans voting by mail is deemed safe and acceptable, but
Democrats voting by mail is cheating and a version of voter
fraud, according to the president.
His attacks on voting by mail along with his efforts to
drastically defund the U.S. Postal Service are clearly a way of
setting up a scapegoat in advance should he lose the electoral
vote along with the popular vote this time—and to increase his
legal and political options if he should lose narrowly in a
handful of key states.
In order for Biden to solidify his current lead and win by an
undisputable margin, he will need to keep a close eye on the
referees running our election. If he wins, restoring the systems
intended to protect the integrity of our elections should be one
of his first priorities.
...
After the election was taken from her, Abrams and her team
launched Fair Fight, an organization dedicated to litigation,
legislation, and advocacy in order to support voter protection
programs at state parties around the country.
Whoever Biden picks for his running mate, he should lean on
Abrams and other policy-makers who know and understand the real
threat of voter disenfranchisement and how to combat it.[/quote]
You have been warned.
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Re: Voter suppression
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 9, 2020, 11:04 pm
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This can also be considered a form of gerrymandering:
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