Voter Suppression

[bad_teammate 13216]

3 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

Tone deaf as a head of lettuce

 

Tone deaf? No. That's not tone deafness, that's just the open manifestation of white supremacy.

[lemonlime 5503]

3 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

 

Tone deaf as a head of lettuce

 

Nope. That's exactly the message Kemp wants to send out. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19206]

I'm glad I don't live in America any more and will fight like hell any attempts by my employer to move me back.

Fuck this shit.

[wildcat09 29355]

17 hours ago, Pancho Negro said:

Boy, and to think when I started this thread on Shaggy before the 2016 election, I got all sorts of shit because "it wasn't really happening."

 

 

I remember bitching about Republican vote caging during the 2004 election back in the day on Hornfans. Back then the racists had to resort to dirty tricks like sending returned mail to black servicemen's homes while they were deployed overseas to get them kicked off voter roles and pretty much nobody talked about it, even after it came up during congressional testimony. At least they're more open about their cheating now.

[Celery Man 20967]

6:50 to skip past railing against North Dakota Native American vote suppression and on to laughing at True The Vote and talking about registration surge in Texas

[Buzzrock 14922]

49 minutes ago, lemonlime said:

Nope. That's exactly the message Kemp wants to send out. 

You guys are giving him waaaay too much credit.

[Dropout 355]

 

[Gil Bang 25975]

 

[Biff Tannen 45691]

So anything going to actually be done about this in Georgia or is everyone just going to wring their hands?

[Brisketexan 105155]

So anything going to actually be done about this in Georgia or is everyone just going to wring their hands?

I’m sure the DOJ will step in and enforce the Voting Rights Act.

[bad_teammate 13216]

3 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

So anything going to actually be done about this in Georgia or is everyone just going to wring their hands?

If you're saying the people of Georgia should rise up in violent insurrection, I agree with you.

Not sure what else you are looking for. 

[GSU&UT 1798]

3 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

So anything going to actually be done about this in Georgia or is everyone just going to wring their hands?

Several lawsuits have been filed but who knows if something will be done in time by a judge or if they retroactively say these practices made this election illegitimate (which is laughable of course).

 

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/hearing-scheduled-in-aclus-signature-matching-voting-case-in-georgia

[Message Board User 12395]

 

[Pancho 44856]

29 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

 

Just came to post this

 

really wish our resident conservatives would justify anything on the last...oh I dunno 9 pages of this thread

[Hank Scorpio 17729]

If minorities wanted to vote they should have thought about that before they chose to be minorities. 

[Chrispy 132]

Sounds like the Hispanics in Dodge City weren’t going to vote anyway. 

[Buzzrock 14922]

1 hour ago, Message Board User said:

 

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Dodge City had multiple voting locations until the American with Disabilities Act in 2002 imposed more stringent requirements for accessibility to polling places, Dunlap said.

That's fucked up.

[Message Board User 12395]

44 minutes ago, Chrispy said:

Sounds like the Hispanics in Dodge City weren’t going to vote anyway. 

Interesting you mention that, as that seems to be a reason voters were purged in Georgia.

 

 

[Chrispy 132]

2 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

Interesting you mention that, as that seems to be a reason voters were purged in Georgia.

 

 

Sadly, those purged will probably never know. 

[Buzzrock 14922]

Another dumb pointless move by Kemp you say? That's so weird.

[MixtyMotions 102]

Voters should not be purged merely for not voting.  And I SERIOUSLY DOUBT that they are.

In Alabama if they don't vote in a two year period they are notified.  If they respond to the notification they aren't purged.

[Celery Man 20967]

Well if Tahoe doubts it then nothing to worry about folks

[Hank Kingsley 20967]

27 minutes ago, MixtyMotions said:

Voters should not be purged merely for not voting.  And I SERIOUSLY DOUBT that they are.

In Alabama if they don't vote in a two year period they are notified.  If they respond to the notification they aren't purged.

And if you don't respond?  

 

[Pancho 44856]

You shouldn’t be purged regardless of how many times you don’t vote. 

How hard is that to comprehend?

[MixtyMotions 102]

8 minutes ago, Pancho Negro said:

You shouldn’t be purged regardless of how many times you don’t vote. 

How hard is that to comprehend?

Read:

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/11/618870982/supreme-court-upholds-controversial-ohio-voter-purge-law

 

[Gil Bang 25975]

11 minutes ago, MixtyMotions said:

Read:

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/11/618870982/supreme-court-upholds-controversial-ohio-voter-purge-law

 

So fucking what?  A conservative majority allows voter suppression.  Dog bites man, etc. 

[Gil Bang 25975]

he dissent, which was joined by the court's other liberal-leaning justices, noted that only 4 percent of Americans move outside the county they live in each year, and that in 2012, Ohio identified 1.5 million registered voters – nearly 20 per cent of the state's total – as likely to be ineligible, because they had changed their addresses. That would mean that vastly more Ohioans moved each year than in other states. And when sent address confirmation letters, Breyer opined, that it appears that more than two-thirds mistook the notice for junk mail and threw it out, thus losing their right to vote without even knowing it.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a separate dissent, pointed particularly to the effect of Monday's decision on minority and poor neighborhoods. She observed that, in Hamilton County – which includes Cincinnati – African-American neighborhoods in the city had 10 percent of their voters removed due to inactivity, as compared to only 4 percent in the suburban, white-majority neighborhoods.

[lemonlime 5503]

A majority of the Supreme Court also allowed concentration camps for Japanese Americans.  Doesn't mean it was a good idea.

[Gil Bang 25975]

It's the GOP gameplan, 100%.  Keep minorities from voting.  No intellectually honest person can deny it. 

[WhatTheBuck 28788]

30 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

So fucking what?  A conservative majority allows voter suppression.

Tahoe thinks that's a good thing. 

[seven 1367]

He yearns for the days when dogs and firehoses were acceptable 

[Mdhorn 5970]

3 hours ago, Message Board User said:

 

Dems provide bussing in some areas.  I'd strongly suggest this here.

[GSU&UT 1798]

1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:

It's the GOP gameplan, 100%.  Keep minorities from voting.  No intellectually honest person can deny it. 

You sure have seen a lot of tap dancing around it though, what with all "well if you want to keep your right then maybe you should make an effort!" The problem is that they're attempts this year have been so blatantly obvious that finally the media is shedding a much bigger light on it.

[Message Board User 12395]

 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

 

[Pancho 44856]

Republicans want this! Such shit people 

 

 

[Message Board User 12395]

 

[Message Board User 12395]

 

[Message Board User 12395]

 

[Lurch 5931]

2016 tweet buried in one of the above

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

The great thing about living in Trump country is there are no long lines at my early voting location, which is less than a mile from my house. 

I’m in and out in like three minutes. 

#MAGA

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

24 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

 

I’m in and out in like three minutes. 

 

I'm sure the wife is soooo happy about that

[Pancho 44856]

 

[atomheartbevo 89729]

30 minutes ago, Pancho Negro said:

 

Somebody’s internal polling is telling them to toss every ballot they can.  

[triplehorn 2664]

My signature changes when it's done two seconds apart.  It's obvious it's the same person (me) signing, but any stooge could say they aren't identical. 

Fight this bullshit.

[RayDog 682]

It looks like my vote is being suppressed. Still no absentee ballot and possibly not enough time to mail it.

[Pancho 44856]

 

[atomheartbevo 89729]

Really would love to see his internal polling.   What a fucking coward. 

[MixtyMotions 102]

The GOP's best voter suppression tactic in states with large Black populations is not to run a candidate in Black districts against Black nominees.  For example, in Houston, do not put up a GOP candidate against Sheila Jackson Lee.

The Dems try to motivate voters by hollering racism.  Just take that card away.  Sheila Jackson Lee will win anyway.  But if the GOP runs a candidate against her the Dems will run through the Black neighborhoods asserting some mortal threat by White people against Blacks, and the need to ge defend Sheila and the threat to Blacks.

If a candidate has opposition they campaign more than if they are unopposed.  All candidates do this.  If a candidate like Sheila Jackson Lee has no personal reason to campaign, she'll campaign a lot less.  It will affect voter turnout in her district.  Voters who would come to vote for her, and then vote straight Dem while they're there, don't come.  That affects candidates like O'Rourke.

One year I worked to support a candidate for a minority district in the state House.  He had been a football star in the community (and played at Michigan) and was active in local politics.  Promoting him drove up turnout in that district and probably cost us a key countywide race.

Another good voter suppression technique is to push an issue which splits the Dem electorate, forcing a candidate either to choose or wimp out.  For years the gay marriage thing worked.  It was popular with the true Left but not with Catholics, minorities or Billy Bob - all big Dem constituencies.

[Message Board User 12395]

As a reminder, voter fraud is...well...