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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 8, 2021, 10:08 pm
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 9, 2021, 10:11 pm
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The champion of election fairness* returns:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/huffpost/stacey-abrams-for-the-people-act-041826723.html
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> Stacey Abrams’ voting rights group will begin a monthlong
effort to mobilize young Americans of color to support the For
the People Act, a landmark piece of legislation that would
combat voter suppression efforts nationwide.
>
> Abrams, a former Georgia gubernatorial candidate, told
supporters on Tuesday that her organization, Fair Fight Action,
would launch an initiative called Hot Call Summer. The effort
will last through June and include a campaign to ask supporters
to call their senators and urge them to vote for the For the
People Act. Fair Fight also hopes to text at least 10 million
people in key 2022 battleground states in which Republican
lawmakers have worked to tighten voter access.
>
> “With voting rights under attack in 48 out of 50 state
legislatures across the country, the moment has never been more
urgent, and it will take all of us to ensure that Congress
passes the voting rights protections our country and democracy
desperately need,” Abrams wrote in an email to supporters first
obtained by CBS News. “We can’t wait any longer for Congress to
protect Americans’ freedom to vote.”
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HTML https://twitter.com/staceyabrams/status/1402291833414164483
(* Note the vocabulary: as True Leftists, what we support is
election fairness, not democracy. We should use every available
opportunity to clarify the difference: we would rather have no
elections, but if we must have elections, we prefer fair
elections over unfair elections. Under no circumstances must our
opposition to voter suppression be mistaken for support of
democracy.)
Related:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/red-coup/msg3147/#msg3147
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> If we have three countries A, B and C whose people have the
characteristics:
>
> A: agree to not have elections
> B: agree to have elections and then respect the election
results
> C: agree to have elections but then do not respect the
election results
>
> it is perfectly possible to consider B (which displays
commitment to keeping contract) superior to C (which fails to
keep contract) without considering B superior to A (which does
not fail to keep contract, but merely has better contractual
content). So here is how the split works:
>
> False Left worldview: B > C > A
> True Left worldview: A > B > C
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 19, 2021, 10:38 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/again-georgia-purges-100-000-171500683.html
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> Here We Go Again: Georgia Purges 100,000 Voters from
Registration Files
> ...
> Purges like this are nothing new in Georgia. According to The
Los Angeles Times, Georgia’s secretary of state’s office has
cancelled more than 1.4 million voter registrations between 2012
and 2018. But these efforts remain controversial for
disproportionately rendering Black residents unable to vote.
>
> Not only did Stacey Abrams and other voting rights activists
take then-secretary of state and now current Gov. Brian Kemp
both to task and to court over these previous purges, but the
rampant (and just outright blatant) voter suppression on behalf
of state Republicans even led to a Congressional investigation.
>
> Gerald Griggs with the Atlanta branch of the NAACP told WSB-TV
that he was worried that once again, the thousands of voters
listed in the recent purge will be improperly removed from the
state’s registration list as they were in 2019.
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Why is it still happening? Answer: because Abrams, despite all
the work she has done in raising awareness of the problem, does
not understand that the solution requires using:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/firearms/
against those such as Kemp. Why would they stop doing it so long
as there are no consequences?
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 5, 2021, 10:04 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4niJ-GSV5S8
Why are mainstream Blue politicians so useless? More people are
now asking this question:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CILeEQvyoPI
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 6, 2021, 10:57 pm
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And now for a completely different type of voter suppression:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHjEoPQWGNw
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: guest55
Date: July 10, 2021, 2:19 pm
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Texas Charges Man Who Waited Six Hours To Vote With Illegal
Voting
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> Rachel Maddow shares details of the arrest of Hervis Rogers,
who gained brief celebrity for his dedication to his civic duty
when he waited in line for six hours to vote in the Texas
Democratic primary in 2020, and has now been charged with
illegal voting and is being held on $100,000 bail.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc1zPR5M65c
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 13, 2021, 10:16 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXEj6fw3TiM
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 16, 2021, 10:09 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/congresswoman-joyce-beatty-arrested-voting-rights-senate-filibuster-black-caucus-212149145.html
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> Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, was arrested Thursday afternoon at
the U.S. Capitol while protesting in favor of voting rights
legislation.
>
> Beatty, the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, was
part of a small group urging the Senate to pass the For the
People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, federal
legislation that would curtail restrictions being set on voting
and gerrymandering at the state level.
>
> Speaking on the Hill before her march into the Hart Senate
Office Building, Beatty compared this moment to the civil rights
movement of the mid-20th century, saying, “We might as well have
the dogs and the hoses because we don’t have the Voting Rights
Act, and that’s why we need to march in these streets, we need
to march as those who were followers of Martin Luther King and
John Lewis.”
> ...
> Less than an hour after speaking, Beatty was being zip-tied by
U.S. Capitol Police, along with a small number of other
protesters.
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 27, 2021, 11:15 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DCPuum4X_8
More about Walton:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/demographic-blueshift/msg7285/#msg7285
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: guest55
Date: July 30, 2021, 12:30 am
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Texas’ Voter Suppression Bill Is The ‘Most Draconian’ In U.S.
History
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> Texas State Representative Diego Bernal shares the highlights
from his time speaking to Democrats in Congress and the Senate
to support voting rights legislation and explains why Texas’ new
voter suppression bill is one of the ‘most Draconian’ in this
country’s history
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QysDORON9GU
Georgia State Republicans Move To Take Control Of Elections In
Largest County
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> With Georgia state Republicans moving to take control of
managing elections in the state's most populous county, Senator
Alex Padilla discusses the urgency of passing federal voting
rights, possibly through a totally new bill, to backstop voting
rights.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5FD6ttnNdY
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