Discussion: Voting Rights and Election Law

[MagnarTheGreat]

Next up (hopefully): protecting absentee (AKA mail) voting after a lower court threw it out.





Notice how the map doesn't look as weird as gerrymandered maps do.

 

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Democracy in decline worldwide | DW | 23.02.2022

New North Carolina Map Eliminates GOP Edge

 

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Raw Story - Questions raised about [Trump Chief of Staff] Mark Meadows using a mobile home as his voting address

However, as the report continues, there appears to be no evidence that Meadows owns the mobile home or has ever made an appearance there.

 

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The bad and disturbing news is at least 3 Justices said that state Supreme Courts should be banned (have no role at all) from taking up cases about election maps from the state legislatures.

NY Times - Supreme Court Allows Court-Imposed Voting Maps in North Carolina and Pennsylvania
State courts had ruled that earlier maps for congressional elections had been warped by partisan gerrymandering. Democrats stand to benefit from the justices’ decision.

But in the North Carolina case, there were signs that at least four of the court’s more conservative justices could later rule that state courts are powerless to change congressional maps adopted by state legislatures.

Such a ruling would fundamentally alter how congressional elections are conducted and amplify partisan gerrymandering, allowing the party that controls the legislature to draw voting districts favoring its candidates.

 

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Denver Post - Tina Peters, Mesa County clerk, and deputy Belinda Knisley indicted in election system breach investigation

 

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Vox - Democrats’ fears about restricting mail-in voting were confirmed in Texas

 

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CNBC - North Carolina investigating Trump [Chief of Staff] Mark Meadows over voter fraud allegations

• North Carolina authorities have opened an investigation into possible voter fraud by Mark Meadows when he was serving as White House chief of staff to then-President Donald Trump.
• Meadows claimed in 2020 that his legal residence was a mobile home, which The New Yorker magazine says he never owned or apparently ever stayed at.
• “The allegations in this case involve potential crimes committed by a government official,” wrote Macon County DA Ashley Hornsby Welch in a letter to the state attorney general’s office.
• Trump, who lost his bid for re-election to President Joe Biden, has falsely claimed since that he was swindled out of a second term in the White House by widespread ballot fraud in several swing states.

 

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The Washington Post - Researchers warn that Christian nationalists are becoming more radical and are targeting voting

 

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[Teelie]

Sounds like Georgia. Any way a Republican can steal an election, they will.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The RepubliQan Court are behaving in a blatantly partisan fashion.

 

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Alaska Supreme Court rules against gerrymandering

The Alaska Supreme Court Monday ruled against political gerrymandering on the grounds it violates the equal protection clause of the Alaska State Constitution. The ruling sends a legislative map back to the Alaska redistricting board to set it right.

Alaska Supreme Court rules Senate map for Anchorage unconstitutional and ‘political gerrymander’

 

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The Daily Beast - Judge Blocks Florida’s Racist Voting Laws in Blistering Ruling

 

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Associated Press - Trump aide seeking NH House seat voted in 2 states in 2016

 

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The Hill - Arizona Supreme Court declines GOP request to end early voting

Here's hoping the PA Supreme Court does the same.

Mediaite - Whopping 71 Percent of Americans Say Officials Supporting Trump’s Election Lies Are Committing a ‘Crime’
A stunning 71 percent of Americans say officials who support former President Donald Trump’s election lies are guilty of a “crime,” and similar majorities want the Justice Department to take action.