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[ a cannon blast disguised as a firecracker @so_treu :: "so shut up about abandoning the South" ] .... [ Data for Progress @DataProgress :: "There is no state in the country where support for banning abortion reaches even 25 percent. (Data for Progress analysis of the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Studies)" ] #abortion #maths #maps #whitemoderates #thesouth #disenfranchisement #gop #snakeoil #siege https://www.instagram.com/p/BxnYSqABETn/?igshid=pgurg08rh613
OK WAIT SO IF POC GET STRICTER SENTENCES IN COURT… AND IF WOC ARE MORE AT RISK OF MISCARRIAGE AND GENERAL MALPRACTICE… AND IF SEX EDUCATION IS WORSE IN INNER CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS… AND IF RACIAL HOUSING DISCRIMINATION IS PRACTICED BY 85% OF REAL ESTATE AGENTS… AND IF SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE FUNDED VIA PROPERTY TAXES WITHIN EACH DISTRICT… HOLD ON………. WAIT A MINUTE
if true the entirety of the results are tainted and the whole election shld be nullified and redone, not, called for the lsst person ahead **before the fraud started** who just happens to be in your party, fraud on that scale //supports a recount, or more//, not **oh well**. (much as if 3 million voted illegally in 2016 then those results should have been rejected, wierd how the system always breaks for the gop's advantage). [ Mid-term elections 2018: Trump calls for end of Florida recounts - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46186039 ] #trumpets #florida #midterms #snakeoil #disenfranchisement https://www.instagram.com/p/BqF1o2RnXXP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xyesxxdmn2ak
because Republicans have managed to win elections in every way possible except by getting the most votes.
Check your voter registration. If you have any mutuals in Texas, specifically, inform them of the need to check their voter registrations but they are trying to pull this crap all over the country. Check your voter registration early, and check it often.
Check your voter registration
Nor should it. It’s a blight on the Democratic process.
They say they were just “cleaning up the polls” of people who haven’t voted in over three years, but I wonder how many names of people who did vote recently were “accidentally” included in the wipe.
Even if you voted in the last election, please go check your status. These changes happened over the weekend in early September.
If your not registered to vote, register
And if you are registered to vote, keep double checking that this is still the case (And if it’s not, re-register)
I know it’s annoying but it doesn’t take long to do and honestly with all the blatant dirty tricks the Republicans are pulling and their complete disregard for the law it’s better to be safe than sorry…
Can anyone explain to me any real reason to purge voter rolls? Like, it’s one thing if they drop people who haven’t voted in a decade or something. But there’s just no need to do this so much. Except it’s the only way Republicans win. Because they’re corrupt fucks.
Iwillvote.com allows you to check if you are still registered to vote or to registerif you needd to.
Election officials in a rural southwest Georgia county are defending a plan to suddenly close seven of the county’s nine polling places against allegations of racial discrimination, saying the ones it wants to close are not sufficiently accessible to people with disabilities.
Randolph County, the site of the proposed changes, is more than 60 percent black, with a little over 30 percent of residents in poverty ― more than double the national level. The Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the election board earlier this week warning of a lawsuit because the proposed closures discriminated against black voters. Those voters, the group said, were less likely to own a car and would be required to walk over three hours to one of the two remaining polling locations because there is no public transportation to get them there. The ACLU also noted the voter makeup of one of the polling places officials wanted to close was 96.7 percent black.
During a public meeting to discuss the changes Thursday evening, Mike Malone, a consultant hired by the county, said the seven polling places did not comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Officials said they don’t have time to fix them, so they would close them instead, WALB reported.
Sean Young, the ACLU of Georgia’s legal director, attended the meeting Thursday night and dismissed the suggestion that a lack of ADA compliance meant the polling places had to close. Randolph County residents who attended were also skeptical of the excuse, according to local reports.
“If a government building is not ADA compliant, the solution is to make them ADA compliant. If you cut your hand, you don’t chop off your arm, you heal the wound,” he said. “They have had decades to fix these issues and have had elections in these polling places. The better question is why haven’t these issues been fixed? And why, instead of fixing them, are you shutting them down?”
Todd Black, the county’s director of elections and registration, did not return requests for comment. A second public meeting is scheduled for Friday night. A vote is expected Aug. 24.
In the letter to the county board, the ACLU said there was evidence of discriminatory intent in the proposal. They pointed to the fact that Stacey Abrams, the first female black nominee for governor from a major party, will be on the ballot this fall.
“This is a Black Belt county that has twice the rate of African-American population as the rest of the state. With the ugly history of voting discrimination that Georgia’s a part of, you need to think twice before you eliminate 75 percent of the polling places in a majority black county,” Young said.
in which cheaters prosper
This article is critically important.
Before any deadlines for November 2018, voters must check whether they are registered, jump through any barriers conservatives states have erected, and RE-REGISTER IF NECESSARY.
“The use of voter purges is just part of a scheme by Republican politicians who vastly exaggerate the threat of voter fraud in order to push laws and policies that end up disenfranchising voters. The 2016 election was the first presidential contest without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act, and evidence of how many voters were affected by the loss in protections continues to emerge.”
If the burden is on citizens to repeatedly demonstrate why they should be allowed to exercise their right to vote, it isn’t a right. By contrast, imagine someone being told they could not purchase a handgun because they hadn’t purchased a handgun in several years. ~@smotus
LANSING — Five current and former state lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, must give sworn depositions and produce certain records in connection with a federal lawsuit over a law the Republican-controlled Legislature passed to ban straight-ticket voting, a federal magistrate has ruled.
Meekhof, R-West Olive, along with Sens. Marty Knollenberg, R-Troy, and David Robertson, R-Grand Blanc, State Rep. Michael McCready, R-Bloomfield Hills, and former state Rep. Lisa Posthumus Lyons, R- Alto, want to quash the subpoenas issued in the case, arguing “legislative privilege” protects them from having to testify or produce the records.
But U.S. Magistrate Judge Mona Majzoub ruled Thursday that the lawmakers enjoy only “qualified privilege,” and while communications between lawmakers and their staff related to opinions or motive are protected from public scrutiny, any communications lawmakers shared with third parties related to the legislation must be produced.
The case is one of two ongoing federal lawsuits with important implications for whether state lawmakers and their records are off limits in civil lawsuits. The other lawsuit, in federal court in Grand Rapids, is automaker Tesla’s challenge to a law banning direct sales to consumers by automakers.
The law banning straight-ticket voting, signed into law by Gov. Rick Snyder in January 2016, was placed on hold in July 2016 by U.S. District Judge Gershwin Drain. He is hearing the lawsuit brought by the Michigan State A. Philip Randolph Institute —an arm of the AFL-CIO union organization — and several individual voters.
Plaintiffs’ attorneys Mary Ellen Gurewitz and Mark Brewer, a former chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party, argue Senate Bill 13 of 2015 was designed to have an unfair and unconstitutional impact on black voters in large Michigan cities, partly because it would result in longer lines and waiting times to cast votes.
In issuing a preliminary injunction against the law in 2016, Drain said the plaintiffs have a good likelihood of proving their case against Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, the defendant in the case and Michigan’s top election official. She is represented by attorneys from the Attorney General’s Office.
“The court finds (the law) presents a disproportionate burden on African Americans’ right to vote,” partly because, in Michigan’s most populous counties, there is a strong correlation between the size of the black voting population and the use of straight-ticket voting, Drain wrote.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder unloaded Monday on President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission, blasting its leader Kris Kobach as a “fact-challenged zealot” during an address to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
“This commission, led by a fact-challenged zealot, will come up with bogus reasons why further restrictions should be placed on the right to vote,” said Holder, who served under former President Barack Obama. “This commission is up to no good.”
Trump’s panel, formally known as the Presidential Advisory Commission on Electoral Integrity, held its first formal meeting last week amid significant controversy over the background of many of its members and over Kobach’s request that every state send the commission voter data, including partial social security numbers and information on felony convictions.
Holder said the voter fraud narrative that the Trump administration is advancing adds to voter suppression techniques, such as the recent crop of voter identification laws. Holder said studies have found that these barriers disproportionately suppress people who are young, minorities or poor.
“Too many in this country are trying to make it too hard, to make it too difficult for the people,” said Holder, who headed up the Justice Department from 2009 to 2015. “Let me be frank. Voter fraud did not become an issue in North Carolina, as in other places, until people of color started to cast ballots in record numbers.”
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Yes, the Republicans stole another election.
Bloop bloop Felony disenfranchisement is a shell game that POC have been trying to explain to you
Since 2006, states across the country have implemented strict voter ID laws, which require photo identification at polling places. Extensive research has suggested that these laws are motivated by racism and partisanship. But many commentators (even at liberal-leaning outlets) have dismissed the impacts of these laws, despite clear evidence that they have disproportionate impacts on young people, people of color and low-income people. A new memo from Priorities USA and Civis Analytics provides evidence that voter ID laws successfully disenfranchised voters in 2016.
So if you thought that 2018 was gonna fix this…..
