Discussion: Voting Rights and Election Law

[squeekness]

Numbers 'impressive' in Franklin County as early voting begins for August special election

Early voting officially underway for special election on Issue 1

Good to hear.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Daily Kos - Appeals court orders new Congressional lines in New York, a potential boon for Democrats

 

[mclay18]

Good to hear.

It must be doing GREAT since it's aggravating Ohio SOS Frank LaRose, who keeps sniping at "liberal activists" calling out his hypocrisy on social media.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Huffpost - House GOP Wants To Make It Harder To Vote, Easier To Give Dark Money

 

[squeekness]

Huffpost - House GOP Wants To Make It Harder To Vote, Easier To Give Dark Money

Nothing to see here, folks.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Cleveland.com - Shaker Heights attorney, a Trump supporter, tells judge he voted twice in last two elections by accident

 

[squeekness]

Right. Because it's so easy to forget you voted....

 

[Teelie]

But it's okay, he's Republican. Now if he were a Democrat, that'd be a different story.

 

[InCali]

Right. Because it's so easy to forget you voted....

 

[squeekness]

Lol, I got that reference.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Daily Beast - Can We Please Make Presidential Elections Shorter and Less Stupid?
There is no reason campaigns should run for a year and a half, and Congress actually has the power to end this political insanity.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[Teelie]

Republicans are totally okay with ignoring the law when it suites them.

 

[squeekness]

They know they have to cheat to win.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

House and Senate Democrats Reintroduce the Freedom to Vote Act

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Ohio Issue 1: Poll finds most Ohio voters oppose August ballot issue
Nearly 60% of Ohio voters oppose an August ballot measure that would make it harder to change the constitution, according to a new poll.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

NPR - A Mississippi law limits who can help mail-in voters. A federal court struck it down

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[squeekness]

Good, because it was stupid.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The era of Protasiewicz can finally begin.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Republicans took nothing but Ls in trying to litigate to get rid of the mail voting law that Republicans passed in the PA legislature in 2019.

 

[squeekness]

Republicans took nothing but Ls in trying to litigate to get rid of the mail voting law that Republicans passed in the PA legislature in 2019.

Sooner or later they will figure out that what they want isn't the same as what the people want.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

Oh they already know that; that's why they're trying to stop people from voting.

 

[mclay18]

Gerrymandering petition filed with Wisconsin Supreme Court

 

[InCali]

Gerrymandering petition filed with Wisconsin Supreme Court

Well, that didn’t take long.

Our country is increasingly being run by the courts.