Discussion: Voting Rights and Election Law

[blueharvest]

Attorney General Garland tells Alabama’s Bloody Sunday service that voting rights are under attack

It is the day Alabama law officers attacked Civil Rights demonstrators at the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

apnews.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Map: 29 million Americans live under new voter ID laws put in place since 2020

1 in 9 voting-age adults live in states with new identification laws.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

Settlement in Wisconsin fake elector case offers new details on the strategy by Trump lawyers

A settlement shows how Trump lawyers crafted a plan for fake electors to file papers falsely saying the former president won Wisconsin in 2020.

apnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

Arizona House Republicans Pass Bill Eliminating No-Excuse Early Mail-in Voting

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

 

[blueharvest]

Trump allies are quietly purging names from voter rolls in battleground states: report

Right-wing activists and allies of Donald Trump are challenging voter rolls in critical presidential battleground states, which observers say is an under-the-radar effort that could seriously effect close or contested elections. Activists are pressuring local officials in strongly Democratic...

www.rawstory.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/taylor-swift-posts-major-super-tuesday-message

 

[squeekness]

Trump allies are quietly purging names from voter rolls in battleground states: report

Right-wing activists and allies of Donald Trump are challenging voter rolls in critical presidential battleground states, which observers say is an under-the-radar effort that could seriously effect close or contested elections. Activists are pressuring local officials in strongly Democratic...

www.rawstory.com

Losers only win by cheating.

 

[blueharvest]

Encouraging Signs from Conservatives Voting Blue

— — These comments are quite encouraging. They are from former Republicans sick of Trump and the GOP — who are now voting for Biden, for the sake of sanity and the sake of the country. Republican Voters JUMP SHIP and Abandon Party MeidasTouch — Mar 3,...

www.dailykos.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Senate rejects election bill amended to force hand counts of Kansas paper ballots • Kansas Reflector

Kansas Senate rejected an election bill outlawing use of electronic equipment to vote or count ballots. It reduced the bill to veto bait.

kansasreflector.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Federal judge rules Florida can't ban noncitizens from registering voters

A federal judge handed Latino and civil rights groups a victory when he struck down a provision in a Florida state law that would have barred noncitizens from registering voters in time for the 2024 election.

www.yahoo.com

So even if you can't vote because of your age or of a conviction or undocumented status doesn't mean you can't help voters vote.

 

[blueharvest]

Republicans in a Texas county ditched technology and counted votes by hand. Here’s what happened.

The Texas Secretary of State and other election experts warned Gillespie County Republicans the process would be expensive, time-consuming and less reliable.

www.texastribune.org

 

[Teelie]

Not a single surprising thing there. They used more workers to take longer to do less secure work than what it took Democrats to do using a more efficient, consistent and secure method. 24 hours to count 8,000 votes and 300 volunteers to count?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Maine House narrowly backs ditching Electoral College for national popular vote

The bill would add Maine to the group of 16 states and Washington, D.C. that is seeking to award presidential electors based on who receives the most votes across the nation.

www.bangordailynews.com

 

[squeekness]

Maine House narrowly backs ditching Electoral College for national popular vote

The bill would add Maine to the group of 16 states and Washington, D.C. that is seeking to award presidential electors based on who receives the most votes across the nation.

www.bangordailynews.com

I would love to see the popular vote be the law of the land for real.

 

[blueharvest]

I would love to see the popular vote be the law of the land for real.

It would be nice if that were the case.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Gerrymandered Ohio Statehouse Republicans look to dismantle 111 years of open primaries • Ohio Capital Journal

The voter suppression measures to close Ohio’s primary elections are propelled by the same gerrymandered GOP hardliners who tried to rob you of your majority voting rights last August on the ruse of “protecting” the state constitution, writes columnist Marilou Johanek.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2024-03-11-Order.pdf

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Wisconsin Republicans fire 8 more Evers appointees, including regents and judicial watchdogs

Republicans who control the state Senate have fired eight more of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' appointees, including two Universities of Wisconsin regents who voted against a deal that limited campus diversity efforts.

apnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

Sen. Ossoff Introduces Bill Guaranteeing the Right to Vote For All Americans

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

 

[Teelie]

https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2024-03-11-Order.pdf

Republicans just nakedly vying for power grabs and making anyone they don't like powerless.

 

[blueharvest]

The Republican National Committee sues Michigan over the state's voter rolls

The move claiming that Michigan's voter rolls are inflated comes as Trump allies have moved into leadership positions at the RNC ahead.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

They just want to stop black people from voting which is exactly why they targeted where they did in 2020.

 

[squeekness]

They just want to stop black people from voting which is exactly why they targeted where they did in 2020.

How do they live with themselves?

 

[blueharvest]

Republicans Continue Attacks on Mail-in Voting in New Pennsylvania Lawsuit

Read more here.

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

 

[blueharvest]

Obscure legal theory could weaken voters’ protections from racist laws

A federal court has ruled private parties unable to file cases under one of few remaining curbs on racial bias in elections

www.theguardian.com