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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 11, 2021, 10:19 pm
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So this is what the Cuomo slander was really about:
HTML https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/05/politics/new-york-felons-voting-rights/index.html
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> (CNN)New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill expanding felon
voting rights on Tuesday, according to the state legislature,
allowing for people on parole in the state to be eligible to
vote as soon as they leave prison.
> ...
> Democrats in the legislature praised Cuomo's signage of the
measure, including Assembly Member Daniel O'Donnell who
co-sponsored the legislation and said it "removes one more
barrier to equal representation" in the state.
>
> "For too long, restricting the right to vote has been used as
a tool to silence and exclude communities of color," O'Donnell
said in a statement released Wednesday.
>
> Voting rights advocates also lauded the legislation. Sean
Morales-Doyle, deputy director of the Voting Rights and
Elections Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law,
praised the law and said it makes clear that Americans of color
"have a say in the elections that impact them and their
families."
>
> "People on parole live and work in our cities and towns, and
by automatically restoring their right to vote, New York is
finally welcoming them as full participants in society. That's a
crucial change, one that will ameliorate one of the vestiges of
Jim Crow," Morales-Doyle said in a statement released Wednesday.
"Due to the racial disparities in New York's criminal justice
system, nearly three-quarters of those disenfranchised by the
ban on voting for people on parole were Black or Latino."
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Well done Cuomo!
#Post#: 6302--------------------------------------------------
Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: guest5
Date: May 11, 2021, 10:44 pm
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I'm glad he refused to back down. He doesn't strike me as the
"harassing" type, sexual or non-sexual for that matter....
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 13, 2021, 4:01 am
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You can't make this shit up:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/huffpost/senate-republicans-voting-reform-165032893.html
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> Senator Ted Cruz Says Making It Easier To Vote Is Actually
'Jim Crow 2.0'
> ...
> It’s an absurd comparison: Jim Crow laws were aimed at making
it near-impossible for Black Americans to vote; Democrats’ bill
(the For the People Act) would make voting easier, streamline
registration processes and prevent partisan gerrymandering,
among other reforms.
> ...
> During a brief hallway interview after Cruz’s comments,
HuffPost pointed out that Jim Crow-era voting laws actually
stopped Black people from voting.
>
> “And in this instance the Democrats want to stop the voters
from voting Democrats out of power,” Cruz replied.
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 14, 2021, 12:34 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tmAXCz7LLI
About Manchin:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Manchin
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> In June 2017, Manchin co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott Act
(S.270), which made it a federal crime, punishable by a maximum
sentence of 20 years imprisonment,[154] for Americans to
encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and Israeli
settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories if
protesting actions by the Israeli government.[155]
> ...
> Manchin is opposed to the DREAM Act, and was absent from a
2010 vote on the bill.[183] Manchin supports the construction of
a wall along the southern border of the United States.[184][185]
He opposed the Obama administration's lawsuit against Arizona
over that state's immigration enforcement law.[186] Manchin
voted against the McCain-Coons proposal to create a pathway to
citizenship for some undocumented immigrants without funding for
a border wall and he voted against a comprehensive immigration
bill proposed by Susan Collins which gave a pathway to
citizenship for Dreamers as well as funding for border security;
he voted 'yes' to withholding funding for 'sanctuary cities'
> ...
> Manchin was the first Democrat to say he would vote for
Trump's first nominee for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch.
> ...
> He was the first Democrat to announce that he would meet with
Trump's second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.[219]
Manchin was the only Democrat to vote 'yes' on the cloture of
Kavanaugh's nomination, advancing the motion to a final
vote.[220] On October 5, 2018, he announced he would vote to
confirm Kavanaugh.[221] On October 6, Manchin was the only
Democrat to vote to confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in a
50-48 count.[222]
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: guest5
Date: May 14, 2021, 12:50 am
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If it were up to Manchin and the others like him there would be
mobs of "whites" hunting down non-"whites" and leftists in the
streets of the U.S., just like mobs of Jews are now hunting down
Palestinians in occupied Palestine.
Reminder:
[img]
HTML https://jewishphilosophyplace.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/jewish-neo-nazis.jpg?w=584[/img]
FASCISM IS LEFTIST, THAT IS HOW DUMB AND IGNORANT THESE PEOPLE
ARE!!! THEY ARE NOT FASCISTS, THEY ARE TRIBALISTS PLAIN AND
SIMPLE!!!
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 19, 2021, 10:26 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/vice-president-harris-denounces-efforts-234354651.html
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> Vice President Harris denounces efforts to restrict Asian
American, Pacific Islander voter rights
> ...
> “Since the start of 2021, more than 360 bills to restrict the
right to vote have been introduced in nearly every state,” she
said. “Many of these bills specifically target vote by mail. And
let’s be clear about this, (they) specifically target vote by
mail while 64% of Asian Americans vote by mail."
>
> "We must see these efforts for what they are. Let’s be clear
eyed. They are an attempt to suppress the right to vote," Harris
said.
> ...
> The record engagement from Asian Americans in 2020 can be
attributed in part to the anti-Asian rhetoric of former
President Donald Trump and members of his administration
regarding the coronavirus pandemic and other actions his White
House took on immigration and other policies, according to AAPI
Victory Alliance Executive Director Varun Nikore.
>
> “This has likely cemented a permanent shift and change within
the AAPI community that will last a while going forward. And
yet, unless continued investment happens in the AAPI community,
we can see a flattening of the turnout in future elections for
AAPIs. We have to continue engaging them,” Nikore told USA
TODAY.
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: guest5
Date: May 29, 2021, 11:36 pm
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‘It’s wrong and un-American’: Biden condemns Texas bill to
restrict voting rights
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> ‘In the 21st century, we should be making it easier, not
harder, for every eligible voter to vote,’ the president says in
response to voting rights under threat
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HTML https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-texas-voting-rights-bill-b1856455.html
#Post#: 6792--------------------------------------------------
Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 29, 2021, 11:40 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRobVUPpZio
#Post#: 6859--------------------------------------------------
Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 2, 2021, 10:08 pm
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HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/01/republican-plot-steal-2024-election/
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> Republicans have spent nearly seven months making bogus
charges of fraud in the 2020 election under the banner of “stop
the steal.” Now they have segued into a “start the steal”
offensive to ensure that they will win the 2022 and 2024
elections — even if most voters once again support the
Democratic Party.
>
> The Brennan Center for Justice reports that “between January 1
and May 14, 2021, at least 14 states enacted 22 new laws that
restrict access to the vote” and “at least 61 bills with
restrictive provisions are moving through 18 state
legislatures.” Those bills are designed not to avert nonexistent
voter fraud but to avert another election defeat for Republicans
— and they are drawing perilously close to that goal.
>
> In Georgia, for example, a new law stipulates that mobile
voting stations “shall only be used in emergencies declared by
the Governor,” who is a Republican. That will put out of
business two “mobile voting units” — a.k.a. buses — that
collected 11,200 ballots in Atlanta’s Fulton County in November.
Also, under the new law, provisional ballots will no longer be
accepted from voters who go to the wrong polling place; 11,120
provisional ballots were counted in November. “Combined,” writes
my Post colleague David Weigel, “the ballots cast by both
methods are nearly double the margin by which [Joe] Biden won
Georgia.”
>
> A new election law in Texas, which has been temporarily
blocked by a walkout of Democrats from the state House, would
outlaw many of the methods used to increase minority turnout,
such as drive-through voting and early voting before 1 p.m. on
Sundays (crimping “souls to the polls” events after church
services). But the most alarming element of the bill is that it
makes it easier to overturn election results even if there is no
evidence that fraud affected the outcome.
>
> The Georgia law, for its part, includes a pernicious provision
giving the Republican-controlled state legislature the right to
suspend county election officials and to name the chair of the
State Election Board. Previously, Secretary of State Brad
Raffensperger had chaired the board, but he incurred Republican
wrath by certifying Biden’s victory. Raffensperger is being
challenged next year by a Donald Trump-endorsed opponent, Rep.
Jody Hice (R-Ga.), who insists that Trump would have won in
Georgia if the election had been “fair.”
>
> Meanwhile, in Arizona — another state Trump narrowly lost —
Republicans are trying to strip Secretary of State Katie Hobbs
(D) of her power to defend election lawsuits. They want to vest
that authority in the Republican attorney general. If she runs
again, Hobbs, like Raffensperger, will face an election
challenge from an advocate of the “big lie.” Trump die-hards are
also running for the secretary of state posts in Nevada and
Michigan.If the challengers win, pro-Trump conspiracy theorists
will be supervising elections in key swing states.
>
> While GOP efforts are ultimately aimed at the 2024 election,
they will first make their impact felt in 2022. Off-year
elections are always tough for the party in power. This one will
be tougher still because of Republican-driven voter suppression,
reapportionment and gerrymandering. Dave Wasserman of the Cook
Political Report writes that Republicans will have full
authority to redraw 187 congressional districts, while Democrats
will control just 75. He estimates that redistricting in just
four states — Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina — could be
enough to deliver the House to Republican control.
>
> This brings us to a nightmare scenario: a
Republican-controlled Congress overturning the 2024 presidential
election results to install Trump or a Trump mini-me in the
White House. In January, 139 House Republicans and eight Senate
Republicans voted not to certify electoral college results in at
least one state. Since then, the most prominent GOP opponent of
the “big lie," Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), has been purged from the
House leadership. Willingness to lie about election fraud has
become a litmus test for Republicans, with the implicit threat
of mob violence if they don’t go along. Republicans are so
scared of Trump and his fanatical followers that most of them
just voted against a bipartisan investigation of the Jan. 6
attack on the Capitol.
>
> Many congressional Republicans will refuse to certify a 2024
Democratic win in swing states. If Republicans control Congress,
they could deny the Democrats an electoral college majority and
throw the election to the House — where each state delegation,
regardless of population, would cast one ballot. Given that
Republicans already control a majority of state delegations,
they could override the election outcome.
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This is why leftists need to be talking about using firearms
instead of complaining that rightists are doing so.
#Post#: 6908--------------------------------------------------
Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: guest5
Date: June 4, 2021, 11:58 pm
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Texas Democrats won a critical battle against voter suppression.
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> Texas Democrats won a critical battle against voter
suppression.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvBs2QBsxTc
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