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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

Brisketexan
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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, Chad Fuck said:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/campaign-worker-arrested-after-iding-his-candidate-as-democrat

 

 

I saw the twitter thread about that last night and was wondering if it would get any exposure.  There was some sort of attempt to disenfranchise Prairie View A&M Students over an issue with the address they were told to use by a previous official when registering, and a guy goes to deliver a letter with a proposal to fix the problem and gets arrested and put in 48 hour investigative hold (and then the lawyers swoop in and he's released).  Some bullshit.

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Just now, Celery Man said:

I saw the twitter thread about that last night and was wondering if it would get any exposure.  There was some sort of attempt to disenfranchise Prairie View A&M Students over an issue with the address they were told to use by a previous official when registering, and a guy goes to deliver a letter with a proposal to fix the problem and gets arrested and put in 48 hour investigative hold (and then the lawyers swoop in and he's released).  Some bullshit.

Fucking police state bullshit.

Texas, Georgia, on down the line.  The reason we needed the VRA is because there's some un-democratic racists fucks outside the cities.  

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Just now, Celery Man said:

I saw the twitter thread about that last night and was wondering if it would get any exposure.  There was some sort of attempt to disenfranchise Prairie View A&M Students over an issue with the address they were told to use by a previous official when registering, and a guy goes to deliver a letter with a proposal to fix the problem and gets arrested and put in 48 hour investigative hold (and then the lawyers swoop in and he's released).  Some bullshit.

They're just running the time-honored plays in the book.  Nothing new here. 

Anyone who expected anything different probably thinks that we're a functioning Republic. Spoiler: we're not.

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Republicans are so popular they have to rig elections to win 

I get the irony here, but you know that's actually what they're doing, based on their internals, right?  They see that in terms of absolute popularity, their chosen demographic is fading away (old people die), and the future doesn't look bright. The only way to win is to change the rules, and/or break them.  That's it.  That's the GOP future electoral strategy, pure and simple.  It doesn't matter if the people don't like them.  They'll just make sure that the people don't get a say in the matter.

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9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I get the irony here, but you know that's actually what they're doing, based on their internals, right?  They see that in terms of absolute popularity, their chosen demographic is fading away (old people die), and the future doesn't look bright. The only way to win is to change the rules, and/or break them.  That's it.  That's the GOP future electoral strategy, pure and simple.  It doesn't matter if the people don't like them.  They'll just make sure that the people don't get a say in the matter.

Violence is coming.

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Violence is coming.

Which will okay right into their hands. They’ve been telling the old white folks that they better vote republican to protect them from those dangerous....people.

Then, the Republic abuse those....people...to the point of inciting violence. Thus fulfilling the repub prophecy, see, you need us to protect you!
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Violence is coming.


Which will okay right into their hands. They’ve been telling the old white folks that they better vote republican to protect them from those dangerous....people.

Then, the Republic abuse those....people...to the point of inciting violence. Thus fulfilling the repub prophecy, see, you need us to protect you!


Or Georgians could just vote for his opponent.
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Buzz isn't a troll.
I think he just got out over his skis on that one and forgot the root problem.  He'll correct me if I'm wrong. 
 


Well as I stated before, technically those people can vote (and trust Kemp not to “lose their provisional ballots in the shuffle”). But 53,000 out of 7 million shouldn’t be enough to make a difference if Abrams can play it right down the stretch.

Oh and Kemp is now being sued. This is not going to go well for him. He’s a dumbass.
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In Georgia employers have to give two hours. And there are several early voting days.
In Harris County, we have two weeks of early voting, including polling places staying open on a Saturday. If you cant get there over a period of two weeks, you are a lazy piece of shit. FYI, there are 46 locations in Harris County, and they are very widespread, including minority majority areas.
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In Georgia employers have to give two hours. And there are several early voting days.

 

That's cool. 

It should still be a national holiday. 

People still work during the week and people have to work on Saturdays. 

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32 minutes ago, Pancho Negro said:

That's cool. 

It should still be a national holiday. 

People still work during the week and people have to work on Saturdays. 

It's a holiday in Puerto Rico and they always get crazy high turnout.

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Mike Siegel and his field director Jacob Aronowitz (who was arrested delivering a letter making issue of Waller County attempting to impede the ability of Prairie View A&M students to vote, again) on Maddow tonight, along with a history of the voting issues with students in that county.

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1 hour ago, Jack Burton said:

This thread is one sided. Can someone post all the Dem states doing shady things to predominately R voters?

The Dems are so disciplined that millions of them can travel across state boundaries to vote illegally without anyone taking a photo or posting about it on Facebook. 

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13 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Doesn't sound good ^^

Especially not in 2018, when this stuff is hard to cover up thanks to social media, etc.  Republicans can’t hide this anymore with a phonecall to the local media outlets. 

This sucks, and could cost her the election, but it’s going to make a lot of people get off their asses, and while it may protect a Republican or two, it damages the Republican brand. 

When you look at all of these actions by Republicans  (voter suppression, Senate stuff, House shenanigans, stripping various federal regulations, etc.), and the language they use these days, it really feels like the GOP knows their time is coming to an end.  They are desperate as hell.

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11 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

The Dems are so disciplined that millions of them can travel across state boundaries to vote illegally without anyone taking a photo or posting about it on Facebook. 

FCHorn is on the case, watch your ass

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3 minutes ago, Pancho Negro said:

Oh Republicans...

 

remember all those accusations of voter fraud from republicans? remember that alabama walking around money for black voters? remember all the accusations of illegals and dead people voting in droves? 

remember all those accusations of voter fraud from republicans?

i do.

because every republican accusation these days is a projected confession.

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13 hours ago, Satchel said:

The Supreme Court should be ashamed of its gutting of the VRA. Texas does not deserve to be free of preclearence mandates. (See Waller County)

Waller always run into issues of accusation of suppressing Prairie View A&M students from voting.  for example in the past, the county has tried to say that students are not allowed to vote there because they're not really residents.   I don't think any court has every backed the county.  If you regularly sleep in a location, you have a right to say that is your resident.

Anyway Waller is at it again.  PV A&M students don't have an unique mailing address so a compromise has been that the students can all list 1 of 2 addresses on their voter registration form.  The city has previously agreed to this.  Now it's been discovered that one of the addresses falls in a precinct that requires the student to vote at the courthouse instead of the school precinct.  The city/county has said that the student can vote at the school but have to complete a change of address form before election day.  

TLDR: Waller screwed up so now students have to complete another form in order to vote in the precinct on campus.   just allow them to vote on campus.   

 

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3 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

It's astounding that in such a 'free' nation that voter registration is even a thing. We have to fix this.

Well, we WOULD, except for one tiny little thing: the party that controls every branch of our Federal government, and countless local and state governments, DOESN'T WANT PEOPLE TO VOTE.

It is really and truly that simple: the foundation of the GOP's strategy for holding onto power is to do everything in their power to prevent people from voting.

But man, they LOVE them an American flag and stuff, so it's all cool.

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15 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

The Dems are so disciplined that millions of them can travel across state boundaries to vote illegally without anyone taking a photo or posting about it on Facebook. 

And they’ve figured out a way to make the enormous convoys of busses that are required completely invisible. Must’ve stolen that F-35 technology.

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What is taking place in Georgia and Waller County would not have been permitted in a preclearence environment. Even so, a decent and competent AG could provide legal guidance to states that are intent on suppressing minority voting:

The fat end is, obviously, Shelby County v. Holder. There, the allegedly incrementalist, allegedly institutionalist Roberts gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, ruling that Southern states no longer needed to get preclearance before changing their voting districts to disenfranchise minority voters. The “institutionalist,” “incrementalist” ruling overturned 40 years of settled law, and overlooked the fact that Congress actively voted for the preclearance plan as recently as 2006.

For Roberts, none of this mattered. He decided, by fiat, that racism was not as big of a problem in the South as it used to be.

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