The GOP war on voting - Page 119 - Politics and Economics

I live in Georgia. Went for a walk today with my 7-year old son and took the opportunity to teach him what voter suppression was.

Also, he was playing a game on his tablet the other day and came running upstairs to me in my office asking if I wanted to see something really gross in his game. It was Donald Trump as some monster. Nice.

11-06-2016 , 06:10 AM

#2952

master3004

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Quote:

Originally Posted by seattlelou

How do you know who filled out the ballot? Do you sign it in a sealed envelope?

This is how it's done in Washington state. Sign a sealed envelope. Signature has to match registration.

11-06-2016 , 06:16 AM

#2953

seattlelou

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Originally Posted by master3004

This is how it's done in Washington state. Sign a sealed envelope. Signature has to match registration.

Yeah, I remember. I didn't really put together the need to collect ballots for a mail in system. Probably just a way to get folks to not forget to fill out the ballot.

11-06-2016 , 08:41 PM

#2954

suzzer99

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Absolutely disgusting.

11-06-2016 , 08:58 PM

#2955

goofyballer

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Blue states should restrict early voting hours to only be open during NASCAR races

Spoiler:

11-07-2016 , 02:34 PM

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NCGOP are proud AF of their hard work this election cycle.

11-07-2016 , 03:44 PM

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11-07-2016 , 05:00 PM

#2958

Loki

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11-08-2016 , 02:49 AM

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sportsjefe

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11-08-2016 , 11:32 AM

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Riverman

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go **** yourself, GOP

Quote:

Consider North Carolina, the epicenter of GOP voter suppression. Just days after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder—thereby allowing the state to restrict voting without federal oversight—the overwhelmingly Republican Legislature requested data of voting preferences by race. The legislators then promptly passed an omnibus bill that, in the words of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, “target[ed] African Americans with almost surgical precision.”

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In July, the 4th Circuit blocked this legislation from taking effect this election cycle, holding that it violated both the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause as a race-based voting restriction. But Republican-controlled county election boards implemented the early voting cuts anyway. (These boards retain power over county-level voting practices and claimed they had decided independently to roll back early voting, not implement the now-blocked law that did the exact same thing.) The boards colluded to cut early voting—and Sunday voting especially—in Democrat-heavy areas, as GOP election board chairmen urged each other to follow the “party line.” When one Republican chairman agreed to open a Sunday voting site where black voters could cast ballots after church, his fellow GOP chairmen called him a “traitor.” The transparency of these suppression efforts is staggering: On Sunday, the North Carolina GOP boasted that black early voting is down this year, when that fact is almost certainly attributable to Republicans’ own attack on black voting.

11-08-2016 , 11:38 AM

#2961

PocketChads

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Riverman

go **** yourself, GOP

But how did people just stand by amd stay out of it for a hundred years of this before the Voting Rights Act? I would never have done that back then.

/everyone that's doing it now

11-08-2016 , 11:51 AM

#2962

Loki

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So NC illegally and unconstitutionally impeded people from voting. How does a challenge to that go? Quickly rushed to SCOTUS and voting redone? Suppressed voters just told "sorry you didn't get to vote, deal with it"?

11-08-2016 , 11:58 AM

#2963

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Lengthy, and nothing close to proper redress of grievances

This kind of thing has happened in many states, and even Gore 2000 proves the SCOTUS isn't going to say "ok revote" or anything remotely close

11-08-2016 , 12:06 PM

#2964

tomatoe

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i fully support states making their own laws to handle voting situations. if california wants to give amnesty and let illegals vote thats their right. even though i dont understand why a democrat would disenfranchise their own family by diluting their votes with illegals. but whatever, thats the democrat way.

11-08-2016 , 12:07 PM

#2965

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Originally Posted by tomatoe

Trololol

11-08-2016 , 12:32 PM

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The word Democrat might give a clue to why the person may want someone to vote.

11-08-2016 , 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

The word Democrat might give a clue to why the person may want someone to vote.

Oh my bad, thought it was short for The Antidemocratic Party

11-08-2016 , 12:46 PM

#2968

Loki

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I like that to people like tomato, the very real rigging the GOP does is just fine, but the stuff they make up on their heads that dems do, that's outrageous!

11-08-2016 , 12:50 PM

#2969

einbert

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Spread the word. We won't be intimidated out of exercising our sacred franchise.

11-08-2016 , 01:00 PM

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parttimepro

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Despite the white nationalist threats, I'm not seeing any reports yet this morning about any kind of armed intimidation at the polls. Anybody hear anything like that?

11-08-2016 , 01:08 PM

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Crossposted from gameday thread:

11-08-2016 , 01:33 PM

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11-08-2016 , 01:40 PM

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Not surprised the mayor of some ****ty little town in Georgia would tweet something ****ty.

I am surprised about Chesapeake. Still a little skeptical, though -- this is a tweet from some guy who heard something from his friends. His twitter feed is filled with media and Hillary For America folks asking to interview his friends. I can't imagine no one there videoed a police escort into a polling station. If what he says happened actually happened, we ought to have that video soon.

11-08-2016 , 01:55 PM

#2974

lycosid

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Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

Crossposted from gameday thread:

The actual police in Chesapeake have no idea what that guy is talking about

http://pilotonline.com/news/governme...e5a72aab3.html

11-08-2016 , 02:11 PM

#2975

Jake7777

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http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog...ults-coverage/

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Here’s a story that’s just breaking: It appears that the Trump campaign is filing a lawsuit against the Clark County Registrar’s Office for keeping polls open yesterday for two additional hours beyond their close time (this is being reported by CNN’s Jim Sciutto). It’s slightly confounding that they are doing so, since voters are allowed to cast ballots past the official poll closing time, as long as they were in line before the end official voting hours. As a Clark County spokesman said a couple of days ago, ““If there’s a line when closing time comes, we just keep processing voters until there’s no more line.”

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