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14 Pa. Republican lawmakers go to court to challenge mail-in voting law 11 of them voted for

HARRISBURG — Fourteen Republican state lawmakers have filed a new lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law, calling it unconstitutional and asking for it to be thrown out — even though 11 of those lawmakers supported it just two years ago.

The legal challenge was filed just before midnight Tuesday in the state Commonwealth Court. It is the latest attempt by Republicans to invalidate the 2019 law that GOP lawmakers almost unanimously supported.
 

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2021/09/02/pennsylvania-republican-lawmakers-lawsuit-sue-mail-in-voting-law-they-supported-commonwealth-court-pa-election-2020/stories/202109020147

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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

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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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6 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

i'd bet a paycheck, that more R's than D's use mail in voting 

Historically? Yes. It was mostly for old people, outside of states with 100% mail in voting, until there was a global pandemic. 

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6 hours ago, heso said:

14 Pa. Republican lawmakers go to court to challenge mail-in voting law 11 of them voted for

HARRISBURG — Fourteen Republican state lawmakers have filed a new lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law, calling it unconstitutional and asking for it to be thrown out — even though 11 of those lawmakers supported it just two years ago.

The legal challenge was filed just before midnight Tuesday in the state Commonwealth Court. It is the latest attempt by Republicans to invalidate the 2019 law that GOP lawmakers almost unanimously supported.
 

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2021/09/02/pennsylvania-republican-lawmakers-lawsuit-sue-mail-in-voting-law-they-supported-commonwealth-court-pa-election-2020/stories/202109020147

‘Do you see me, Donald? Please don’t support a primary challenger against me!’

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14 minutes ago, Satchel said:

Abbott signed the voter suppression bill into law today as a mostly men, virtually all white crowd looked on. 

Congrats Texas Dems on coming back from your quorum breaking in DC because..................................

 

 

 

Nothing.  You lost.   The abortion bill and shitty voter suppression bill passed because you all caved.   A bunch of you will get drawn out of your Lege seats too because you caved like pussies. 

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State Sens Eckhardt and Gutierrez have a lawsuit arguing redistricting can only be done in a regular session after census results come out, hoping it will get courts to draw. Fun thing to remember, not sure how successful it will be. I’d absolutely love for Dems to get another shot in a midterm year with current maps

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1 minute ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

wait. you mean people wanna live in cities? shock! haha, but really, and hot takes on what this could mean? I don't know enough about such things to talk with any facility.

By no means am I a demographer. Taking the trends at face value, it appears sparsely populated counties are becoming even more so. It’s not clear if this is due to migration or older people aging off the database.

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It’s perfectly obvious that people especially the youngs keep moving to the cities and there’s not enough housing for it which in turn leads to homelessness at the very bottom of the chain due to supply and demand. 
 

 This is both due to incompetence at all levels (like California) and maliciousness by the government in some some states (like Texas and Florida).

Frankly the only immediate solution is to punish and vote out the republicans in the states where they currently retain power. As for states like California, the solution is not so easy because the problem of supply and demand is so entrenched and the solution would mean overturning decades of both local and state policy which have nothing to do with partisanship since both parties caused it. 

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Maps could be coming tomorrow. Danny boy wants 20-11 R in senate. Gonna be a lot of Rs stepping on other Rs toes IMO. Will probably be a severe undercount in cities too due to the pandemic and people moving everywhere. 

Looks like the new map for the Texas Senate is -1 D in the short term but Dems could flip 3 seats by mid-decade. It’s an ugly map. 

 

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2 hours ago, Js1 said:

Looks like the new map for the Texas Senate is -1 D in the short term but Dems could flip 3 seats by mid-decade. It’s an ugly map. 

That's probably about as good as the Rs could do to benefit themselves, without weakening way too many R districts.

You know their data people went through hundreds/thousands of combinations to arrive at that.

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4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

That's probably about as good as the Rs could do to benefit themselves, without weakening way too many R districts.

You know their data people went through hundreds/thousands of combinations to arrive at that.

The problem the republicans have with redistricting this cycle in Texas is the trump effect from 2020. Will that year mirror the future.  It cuts both ways. 

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Why do all those unpopulated blocks in the northwest exist? Shouldn't they be combined into fewer districts based on population?  It would be like if the national elections had 20 North Dakotas for no reason.

it's a jobs program for selfish cunts.

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In 2020, the texas senate districts went 16-15 in favor of Trump but due to Senator Huffman and Sen. Paxton not being up for re-election they avoided taking those Ls.

Huffman is leading redistricting in the Senate. Huffman’s district map is going from Biden +4.6 to Trump +16.8. Senator Paxton’s from Biden +4.4 to Trump +12.

Senator Beverly Powell, D, went Biden +7.7 to Trump +14.8. She is the most junior Dem and in Tarrant County.

There are currently 21 majority white districts and that would go down to 20.

There are currently 7 Hispanic majority districts and that would stay the same at 7.

There is 1 majority Black district and that will stay the same.

There is 1 district with no majority and that will become 2 in the new map.

95% of population gains in the state were due to minority growth.


Texas Senate opens redistricting debate with proposed map one senator labels “intentional discrimination”

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/18/texas-senate-redistricting-map/

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I tell ya. This is as bad as the heyday of Jim Crow. Black people have to stay wok, regardless of how mad it makes Bill Maher:

An elections board in a rural county in northeastern Georgia is looking to close six of its seven polling stations for next year’s elections, a move that was made possible by a controversial state law passed earlier this year.
https://truthout.org/articles/georgia-gop-plans-to-close-all-but-one-polling-station-in-lincoln-county/

If passed, the measure would create just one place for residents to vote in the county seat of Lincolnton, The Augusta Chronicle reported. Although Lincoln County’s population is small at just 7,690 residents, the single voting location would mean that some residents would have to travel up to 23 miles, making for a 46-mile round trip, just to vote, according to activist and former county school board member Denise Freeman.

Board members say that creating a single place to vote will make things “easier and more accessible,” adding that it will reduce the need to transport voting equipment to multiple sites in the county. But many residents aren’t sold on the idea, arguing that it’s disenfranchising and harmful to the area’s Black population, which makes up about 29 percent of the county’s total.

“This is not about convenience for the citizens,” said Freeman. “This is about control. This is about the good old boys wanting to do what they’ve always done, which is power and control.”

“The citizens are looking at the disenfranchisement of the body of the people that now have to go to a place outside of their area to vote,” said Rev. Chris Johnson, head of the Augusta Interfaith Coalition.

The proposal being considered is a result of a state law passed in Georgia this last spring, Senate Bill 202, which allows state lawmakers to dissolve county boards they view as being unfit. Local boards were dissolved in six counties across Georgia (including Lincoln) under separate bills passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature using the powers that were delegated under SB 202. The newly-formed Lincoln County board agreed with a “consolidation” plan that was offered under the legislation.

Changes to who is appointed to elections boards were also made. In Lincoln County, for example, the new law allowed for its election board to be picked entirely by the county’s Republican-led county board of commissioners. Previously, Democrats and Republicans were given equal apportionment to the election board.

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Idaho Republicans are scared of Republicans

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The proposed rule gives the Idaho Republican Central Committee (IRCC) the power to decide who represents the republican party on the Nov. General election ballot, instead of a vote by registered Idaho voters. 

The IRCC is made up of 210 people, representatives from each county and legislative district in Idaho. 

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The resolutions and rule committee both must approve the rule, then the general state central committee can vote on the rule. Meaning the 210 IRCC members will vote on whether or not the same 210 IRCC members should have the power to decide the Republican nominee for the entire state of Idaho.

Also LOL at how many times Republicans is spelled with a little r.

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for a group so worried about socialism taking over America, they sure use "Central Committee" a lot.  Haven't seen that many references to that name since the USSR broke up.  

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28 minutes ago, Lobo said:

for a group so worried about socialism taking over America, they sure use "Central Committee" a lot.  Haven't seen that many references to that name since the USSR broke up.  

Coincidental, but there actually are quite a few immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe in Idaho and the PNW, particularly Washington state.

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Couldn't find a gerrymandering thread, but didn't we already go through this a few years back with North Carolina?  Am I taking crazy pills?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/11/politics/north-carolina-redistricting-gerrymander-decision/index.html

 

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(CNN)A state court in North Carolina refused on Tuesday to disturb the state legislative and US congressional redistricting plan drawn after the 2020 census, in a case that is expected to be decided by the North Carolina Supreme Court.

In the decision handed down on Tuesday, the trial court panel rejected the arguments made by the challengers, who alleged that the maps were an extreme partisan gerrymander that violated the North Carolina constitution and unlawfully diluted the political power of voters of color.
Addressing the partisan gerrymandering claims, the court said it did not have a role to play in policing partisan gerrymanders, as it borrowed from the language of US Supreme Court decision that said that partisan gerrymander challenges could not be brought in the federal judiciary.
"Were we as a Court to insert ourselves in the manner requested, we would be usurping the political power and prerogatives of an equal branch of government," the panel of North Carolina judges said in its opinion. "Once we embark on that slippery slope, there would be no corner of legislative or executive power that we could not reach."

 

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Couldn't find a gerrymandering thread, but didn't we already go through this a few years back with North Carolina?  Am I taking crazy pills?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/11/politics/north-carolina-redistricting-gerrymander-decision/index.html
 

(CNN)A state court in North Carolina refused on Tuesday to disturb the state legislative and US congressional redistricting plan drawn after the 2020 census, in a case that is expected to be decided by the North Carolina Supreme Court.

In the decision handed down on Tuesday, the trial court panel rejected the arguments made by the challengers, who alleged that the maps were an extreme partisan gerrymander that violated the North Carolina constitution and unlawfully diluted the political power of voters of color. Addressing the partisan gerrymandering claims, the court said it did not have a role to play in policing partisan gerrymanders, as it borrowed from the language of US Supreme Court decision that said that partisan gerrymander challenges could not be brought in the federal judiciary. "Were we as a Court to insert ourselves in the manner requested, we would be usurping the political power and prerogatives of an equal branch of government," the panel of North Carolina judges said in its opinion. "Once we embark on that slippery slope, there would be no corner of legislative or executive power that we could not reach."
 

NC State Courts - “Checks and balances? What are checks and balances?”
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Headline in New York Times 100 years ago:

FILIBUSTER KILLS ANTI-LYNCHING BILL

The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was re-introduced in subsequent sessions of Congress and passed, 230 to 119, by the U.S. House of Representatives on January 26, 1922, but its passage was halted in the Senate by a filibuster by Southern Democrats, who formed a powerful block.

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Schumer just announced that he’s postponing the Senate’s recess and will instead debate and hold a vote on suspension of the rules to consider voting rights. Not sure what this will do, but we’re about to find out.

Unless we’re about to get Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski from the top rope or some shit, this feels like it’s about being able to say they tried. Maybe use it as a motivator for the case in Senate races.
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25 minutes ago, gmr548 said:


Unless we’re about to get Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski from the top rope or some shit, this feels like it’s about being able to say they tried. Maybe use it as a motivator for the case in Senate races.

You make an interesting point. I’m not sure why Republicans are not being taken to task for supporting outright voter suppression? When did that become acceptable?

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10 hours ago, Satchel said:

Headline in New York Times 100 years ago:

FILIBUSTER KILLS ANTI-LYNCHING BILL

The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was re-introduced in subsequent sessions of Congress and passed, 230 to 119, by the U.S. House of Representatives on January 26, 1922, but its passage was halted in the Senate by a filibuster by Southern Democrats, who formed a powerful block.

need to print copies of this and mass mail them to manchinema

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9 hours ago, Satchel said:

You make an interesting point. I’m not sure why Republicans are not being taken to task for supporting outright voter suppression? When did that become acceptable?

They are, their voters just dont give a fuck. Because what they hear form their selected echo chambers is that it isn't voter suppression, it's voter integrity. It's keeping illegals from voting. For fucks sake, man, IT'S NOT HARD TO GET A DRIVERS LICENSE AND GET OFF WORK TO VOTE, YOU FUCKING COMMUNIST. 

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The plan to uproot democracy is proceeding as planned:

The Travis County Clerk’s office said that as of Thursday it “has rejected about fifty percent of applications for ballot by mail that have been received for the March 1, 2022 primary election."

“Many other counties are experiencing the same high rejection rate,” it said in a press release.

Election administrators in San Antonio have rejected 42 of the 80 mail-in ballot applications they've received so far due to new ID requirements, according to the San Antonio Report.

Texas’ new law, Senate Bill 1, requires that voters provide the same ID number — driver's license, Social Security, etc. — on their vote-by-mail application that they provided on their voter registration. Many folks who registered a long time ago may not remember what ID they used. Under the new law, if the ID numbers don’t match, officials must reject the application.

https://www.kut.org/politics/2022-01-13/texas-senate-bill-1-election-officials-vote-by-mail-identification

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The plan to uproot democracy is proceeding as planned:

The Travis County Clerk’s office said that as of Thursday it “has rejected about fifty percent of applications for ballot by mail that have been received for the March 1, 2022 primary election."

“Many other counties are experiencing the same high rejection rate,” it said in a press release.

Election administrators in San Antonio have rejected 42 of the 80 mail-in ballot applications they've received so far due to new ID requirements, according to the San Antonio Report.

Texas’ new law, Senate Bill 1, requires that voters provide the same ID number — driver's license, Social Security, etc. — on their vote-by-mail application that they provided on their voter registration. Many folks who registered a long time ago may not remember what ID they used. Under the new law, if the ID numbers don’t match, officials must reject the application.

https://www.kut.org/politics/2022-01-13/texas-senate-bill-1-election-officials-vote-by-mail-identification

Do they get to find out which ID they used originally?  Or is it just a crapshoot over and over?

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