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This is how fucked up all of this is: this is pretty much the only CR thread with no GRHorn or Donkey or Don Johnson or Johnny Sack, etc. playing the both sides card or trolling or telling everyone th

bolverk
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One thing that strikes me is tha lack of voices here or elsewhere to defend against this worst act against democracy. Sure, you're against the abuse of FISA warrants. Me too! We should totally ha

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Today's Wisconsin vote will go down as one of the most shameful episodes in the post-civil rights era.  And it is 100% on the GOP.  This is their baby -- they INSIST on in-person voting in the middle

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Gotta imagine Souls to the Polls demonstrations are going to warrant a shit ton of security


it’s too late this cycle, but SEC / maga states will attempt to pass laws to ban Souls to the Poll 

 

most states, you must register 60 days before the election. I don’t see the SEC / MAGA states getting this message out 

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The good news is that with all the voter supression changes, Republicans will also be too uninformed and stupid to keep up. I'm guessing the energized groups Harris has brought back to the table will be prepared. 

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Example #5,673,967 of Republicans trying to disenfranchise voters:


Republicans Ask Supreme Court to Block 40,000 Arizonans from Voting in November 

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-08-19/republicans-urge-supreme-court-to-block-40-000-arizonans-from-voting-for-president-in-november

WASHINGTON —  

The Republican National Committee is urging the Supreme Court to intervene in an Arizona election dispute this week and block up to 40,000 of the state’s registered voters from casting ballots in the presidential race. 

Republican state lawmakers say these voters did not provide proof of their citizenship when they were registered and now they should be barred from from voting in person or by mail. 

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Although Congress made it easier for Americans to register to vote, those federal rules cannot override “the Arizona Legislature’s sovereign authority to determine the qualifications of voters and structure participation in its elections,” they said in an emergency appealfiled Aug. 9.

The fast-track appeal may signal whether the conservative court is ready to intervene in partisan election disputes. The Arizona Republicans asked for a decision by Thursday because counties will soon begin to print ballots. 

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said the appeal should be rejected. 

“There is no evidence of fraud and undocumented voting. The 2024 election is weeks away and acting now to restrict the voting rights of a large group of Arizona’s voters is undemocratic,” he said in a statement. 

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Many of the affected voters are “service members, students and Native Americans who did not have birth certificates while registering,” Fontes added.

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Predawn raids. Fuck you, Ken. And fuck you, Audrey Gossett Louis.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/25/us/texas-latinos-democrats-raids-paxton.html

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A Latino civil rights group is asking the Department of Justice to open an investigation into a series of raids conducted on Latino voting activists and political operatives as part of sprawling voter fraud inquiry by the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton.

The League of United Latin American Citizens, one of the nation’s oldest Latino civil rights organizations, said that many of those targeted were Democratic leaders and election volunteers, and that some were older residents. Gabriel Rosales, the director of the group’s Texas chapter, said that officers conducting the raids took cellphones, computers and documents. He called the raids “alarming” and said they were an effort to suppress Latino voters.

In a statement last week, Mr. Paxton, a Republican, described the raids, carried out in counties near San Antonio and South Texas, as part of an “ongoing election integrity investigation” that began two years ago to look into allegations of election fraud and vote harvesting. His office has said that it will not comment on the investigation because it is still underway.

That investigation, which included the creation of an election integrity unit, came as Republican-led states sought to crack down on supposed voter crime after former President Donald J. Trump began making false claims of fraud in the wake of the 2020 election. Experts have found that voter fraud remains rare.

Republican district attorneys and state attorneys general have been promoting aggressive prosecutions in voter fraud cases, sometimes making felony cases out of instances that might have been labeled mistakes in the past.

On Tuesday, Mr. Rosales said, officers raided the home of Cecilia Castellano, a Democrat running against Don McLaughlin, the former mayor of Uvalde, for a state House seat, taking her cellphone.

Ms. Castellano described her experience as “very frightening” and said she still did not know why she was targeted. “This is all political,” she said.

Last week, officers also broke down a door to raid the home of Manuel Medina, a consultant for Ms. Castellano’s campaign and the chair of the Tejano Democrats, a group that advocates Hispanic representation in the Democratic Party.

“I have been contacted by elderly residents who are confused and frightened, wondering why they have been singled out,” Mr. Rosales said. “It’s pure intimidation.”

One of those residents was Lidia Martinez, an 87-year-old retired educator in San Antonio. She said she heard a knock on her door right before 6 a.m. on Tuesday. She thought that maybe a neighbor needed milk and eggs, she said, and she fastened her sleeping gown and opened the door.

Nine officers, seven of them men, some with guns in their holsters, then pushed open the door and marched past a living room wall decorated with crucifixes, she said.

“I got scared,” she recalled in an interview on Sunday, speaking in both English and Spanish. “They told me, ‘We have a warrant to search your house.’ I said, ‘Why?’ I felt harassed.”

Ms. Martinez said that the officers told her they came because she had filled out a report saying that older residents were not getting mail ballots. “Yes, I did,” she told them. For 35 years, Ms. Martinez has been a member of LULAC, the civil rights group, helping Latino residents stay engaged in politics. Much of her work has included instructing older residents and veterans on how to fill out voter registration cards.

“I go to a lot of senior events; I explain to them what they have to do,” she said. “I’ve been involved in politics all of my life.”

The officers said they were looking for voter cards that residents had filled out, she said.

“I told them, I don’t have them here,” she said.

One of the officers handed her a copy of the search warrant and ordered her to sit at her kitchen table. Two of the agents went to her bedroom and searched everywhere, “my underwear, my nightgown, everything, they went through everything,” she recalled. They took her laptop, phone, planner and some documents.

“They asked me about my entire life,” she said. They also asked her if she knew fellow LULAC members, Mr. Medina and area politicians. “I told them, ‘I haven’t committed any crimes,’” she said. Ms. Martinez has not been arrested or charged. Mr. Paxton’s office did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday.

But in his statement last week, Mr. Paxton said that the search warrants were connected to a referral from Audrey Gossett Louis, a district attorney from the 81st Judicial District, which includes Atascosa and Frio Counties, where Mr. Paxton’s office conducted some of the raids. Efforts to reach Ms. Gossett Louis on Sunday were unsuccessful.

“Secure elections are the cornerstone of our Republic,” Mr. Paxton said. “We were glad to assist when the district attorney referred this case to my office for investigation. We are completely committed to protecting the security of the ballot box and the integrity of every legal vote. This means ensuring accountability for anyone committing election crimes.”

Leaders with LULAC and elected officials are planning to hold a news conference on Monday outside the attorney general’s office in San Antonio to demand answers.

Days after the raid, Ms. Martinez said she still felt shaken. But she said she remained committed to the cause.

“They wanted to intimidate me,” she said. “But this is important work.”

 

This might be the most punchable photo of Ken yet.

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And what fucking judge or judges signed off on the warrants as showing probable cause? The corruption runs deep.

A throwback to the days when they burned crosses in people's yards.  Need proof to get a warrant, much less accuse others of voter fraud.  Yet they never produce any, neither in court nor on their raids--just investigating (asking questions).  

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19 minutes ago, TexPx said:

https://www.fox4news.com/news/tarrant-county-judge-says-college-campus-voting-locations-a-waste-manpower

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-unt-policy-prohibits-student-led-voter-registration-in-classes/ar-AA1q0aMt

 

waller county and prairie view a&m have been at war over this issue for years 

 

‘ive heard’ that abbott / patrick want to find a way to force college students to vote ‘back home’ not at the college campus they just moved to 

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I'll put this in the pinned post as well, but I just recently figured out a avenue for someone to get removed from the voter rolls: we were sent multiple voter registration applications to our address - basically one for each variation of my fiancé's last name (she was a hyphen last name kid and has been married/divorced so there are a bunch of variations). Anyway, she is registered under a single last name (her father's) now and it's the same on all of her official documents. She presented me the multiple applications and asked if she needed to fill any of them out - we immediately checked her info online and she was registered with her current name. All of the applications were for "other people" - in other words, if she had ever registered under that name it is still on the rolls. Since this is coming from Travis County I don't think it's purposely nefarious (they can't assume people with similar names are the same people). But I could easily see this being a way someone gets flagged as double registered. Double and triple check your info, folks.

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Hays County is completely fucked up I had to wait in a 2 hour and 45 minute line to vote where only 150 people were ahead of me. It was complete horseshit. 

10 voting machines, no more than 3 at a time being used. Absolutely suppressing voters. 

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I can't even put into text how pissed I am. I went to the other 2 early voting locations and they were also fucked up. It seems like they have resorted to limiting the number of check in tablets and its taking longer to check in than it is to vote. Its completely unacceptable. 

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40 minutes ago, immamac said:

Hays County is completely fucked up I had to wait in a 2 hour and 45 minute line to vote where only 150 people were ahead of me. It was complete horseshit. 

10 voting machines, no more than 3 at a time being used. Absolutely suppressing voters. 

Jovie Belterra?

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It seems like they even fucked up the big one and didn't even open today or opened very late even though they have known about this for years. 

I counted no less than 25 people who left and that was before I was inside and couldn't see anymore. 

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43 minutes ago, immamac said:

Hays County is completely fucked up I had to wait in a 2 hour and 45 minute line to vote where only 150 people were ahead of me. It was complete horseshit. 

10 voting machines, no more than 3 at a time being used. Absolutely suppressing voters. 

Wow.  I voted in NJ about two weeks ago.  Got my ballot in the mail, filled it out, dropped it in the drop by the next day.  

I voted so long ago it almost forgot who I voted for. 😄

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49 minutes ago, immamac said:

Hays County is completely fucked up I had to wait in a 2 hour and 45 minute line to vote where only 150 people were ahead of me. It was complete horseshit. 

10 voting machines, no more than 3 at a time being used. Absolutely suppressing voters. 

 

10 minutes ago, immamac said:

I can't even put into text how pissed I am. I went to the other 2 early voting locations and they were also fucked up. It seems like they have resorted to limiting the number of check in tablets and its taking longer to check in than it is to vote. Its completely unacceptable. 

 

6 minutes ago, immamac said:

It seems like they even fucked up the big one and didn't even open today or opened very late even though they have known about this for years. 

I counted no less than 25 people who left and that was before I was inside and couldn't see anymore. 

So I assume someone is working on a fix?  Surely it won’t go on like this. Right?

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3 hours ago, immamac said:

I called but immediately is going to happen. The election workers didn't seem like they gave a shit and weren't working to expedite it even though everyone told them it was not okay. 

Well that is not good

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