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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 19, 2021, 1:48 am
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 30, 2021, 1:06 am
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 13, 2021, 11:10 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/maps-show-republicans-blatantly-rigging-100032176.html
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> These maps show how Republicans are blatantly rigging
elections
> ...
> Although it is illegal to carve up districts that weaken the
influence of voters based on their race, sometimes lawmakers do
it anyway.
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A.k.a. it's OK for lawmakers to be "white".
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> In Texas, Republicans have drawn lines that blunt the immense
growth among the Democratic-leaning Hispanic population to shore
up the GOP’s hold on as many as 25 of the state’s 38
congressional seats.
>
> Even though people of color accounted for 95% of the
population growth over the last decade, there are no districts
where minorities make up a majority of the population.
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A.k.a. it's OK for districts to be "white".
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> The Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas is one of the fastest
growing areas in the state – and one of the most politically
competitive. Because each district must have roughly the same
number of people by law, Texas Republicans had to get creative
in how they regrouped voters.
>
> In some places, they took small slivers of heavily populated
Democratic suburbs and attached them to rural GOP areas. In
other cases, they excised Democrats from politically competitive
districts and packed them into districts that already favored
Democrats.
>
> Voting rights advocates face an uphill battle in challenging
these maps in court. In 2019, the US supreme court said there
was nothing federal courts could do to stop partisan
gerrymandering.
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A.k.a. it's OK for courts to be "white".
#Post#: 10034--------------------------------------------------
Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 7, 2021, 8:16 pm
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 12, 2021, 2:53 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqiMdIzDI78
See also:
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#Post#: 10122--------------------------------------------------
Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 15, 2021, 10:31 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/laws-aimed-voter-suppression-worst-220021579.html
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> Laws aimed at voter suppression are ‘the worst’ since Jim
Crow. How Black voter trends could be impacted.
> ...
> The USA TODAY analysis comes after some Republicans challenged
the integrity of the election process in 2020 and as more than
19 states this year have passed laws advocates say restrict
voter access.
>
> Many of those states are in the South, where most Black people
live. For example, Georgia, where Blacks make up 32.6% of the
population, adopted this year some of the nation's most
restrictive elections laws.
>
> Some of those laws, experts warn, could substantially suppress
Black voter turnout, posing one of the most serious threats to
civil rights in decades.
>
> “This is the worst we’ve seen since Jim Crow,’’ said Sean
Morales-Doyle, acting director of the Voting Rights & Elections
Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan think
tank. “There was a time in this country when people were willing
to more blatantly say they were going after Black voters. And
now what's maybe really frightening is more and more politicians
are saying the quiet part out loud again."
> ...
> The Brennan Center tracked more than 425 bills in 49 states in
the 2021 legislative session that include restrictive
provisions, such as reducing early voting hours, imposing
stricter ID requirements and limiting the number of mail ballot
drop boxes. Republicans said the bills protect against voter
fraud.
>
> “The ways in which the laws have changed often play into the
pattern that we observe in the racial disparity in registration
and turnout,’’ said Peyton McCrary, a former historian in the
voting section of the U.S. Department of Justice.
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See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/trumpism-is-an-echo/
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 18, 2021, 12:24 am
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More Blue politicians are now willing to call it what it is:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-hirono-says-republicans-want-012225553.html
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> Sen. Hirono says Republicans want to stop 'minorities, Black
people, Chicanos, Asian-Americans' from voting
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 28, 2021, 3:24 am
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Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: December 29, 2021, 7:40 pm
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> @RandPaul
> How to steal an election: “Seeding an area heavy with
potential Democratic votes with as many absentee ballots as
possible, targeting and convincing potential voters to complete
them in a legally valid way, and then harvesting and counting
the results.”
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HTML https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1475542595673763848
Rightist Senator claims that...Democrats shouldn't be allowed to
legally vote?
This is basically admitting that "steal" in Trump's "stop the
steal" slogan was literally about blocking legal votes the whole
time (you know, like Trump announced publicly on TV multiple
times).
#Post#: 10337--------------------------------------------------
Re: Voter suppression
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 30, 2021, 12:19 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/race-blind-redistricting-maps-lie-020000847.html
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> Some Republican lawmakers are claiming that recently redrawn
political maps are “race-blind” in an effort to create parity
among all voters in a given district. But several recently filed
lawsuits suggest the opposite is the case.
>
> One of those lawsuits comes from the U.S. Department of
Justice, which sued Texas earlier this month under the premise
that Republican-approved redistricting maps don’t acknowledge
growth in the state’s Latino population, discriminate against
Black voters and also violate the Voting Rights Act, the
groundbreaking 1965 federal legislation that prohibits racial
discrimination in voting.
> ...
> The 2020 census allowed Texas two additional seats in the U.S.
House of Representatives, thanks to population growth that was
spurred by 95% people of color.
>
> “However, Texas has designed both of those new seats to have
white voting majorities,” Associate Attorney General Vanita
Gupta told CNN. “Instead, our investigation determined that
Texas’ redistricting plans will dilute the increased minority
voting strength that should have developed from these
significant demographic shifts.”
> ...
> Southern Coalition for Social Justice attorney Allison Riggs,
who is involved in the North Carolina case, told CNN that
Republicans lost racial gerrymandering cases before because they
used data to place people of color into fewer districts.
>
> “No one seriously believes that legislators can or are doing
this race-blind,” Riggs said. “A representative who represents
Pitt County here in North Carolina is a representative, is an
elected official, because he, she or they knows where voters
live.”
>
> “They know where Black voters live in the county.”
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