🇺🇸 Discussion: Voting Rights, Electoral College, Ranked Choice Voting, and Election Law

[Lily Adler]

Republicans are once again openly disenfranchising voters and nothing is stopping them because they keep rigging the system.

I would be all in on maintaining voter rolls if it weren't the GOP pushing such a thing.

 

[Teelie]

It's not like they are doing it out of respect for the law or anything, it's all about finding ways to scare away Democratic and undecided voters who aren't their base.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

How Trump’s ‘pit bulls’ in Georgia gave him a powerful tool to throw out votes

Democrats are suing over Georgia’s Republican ‘power grab’ while 2020’s election denialism continues to fuel threats to vote certification across the country, Alex Woodward reports

www.independent.co.uk

 

[blueharvest]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

'It sounds so stupid because it is' | Some election experts concerned over Texas opting out of voter registration data tool​

A Travis County official is sharing his concerns about the state's exit from the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC.

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www.kvue.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[squeekness]

Only in America.

 

[Lily Adler]

They're doing everything they can to keep people from voting.

 

[Teelie]

Only in America.

The Republican way.

 

[blueharvest]

Federal judge decries discrimination against conservative group that publishes voters' information

A federal judge says New Mexico election regulators and prosecutors discriminated against a Republican-backed group in refusing access to voter registration information.

apnews.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

This Georgia Election Official Faked Refusing to Certify an Election

As Trump’s election deniers take over local election boards, one official publicly refused to certify an election — as he quietly helped certify it.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

Early voting options grow in popularity, reconfiguring campaigns and voting preparation

Voters around the country are expected to cast their ballot long before Election Day, and experts say this change in attiude has major ripple effects.

abcnews.go.com

 

[blueharvest]

Christian group recruits ‘Trojan horse’ election skeptics as US poll workers

Lion of Judah enrolls poll workers in Trump-aligned swing state tour, which experts say could be ‘hazard to democracy’

www.theguardian.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Ken Paxton Threatens to Block Democrats From Registering to Vote

The Texas attorney general is now threatening to sue two Latino-majority counties in his mad dash to block alleged “voter fraud.”

newrepublic.com

March 2024:

Ken Paxton agrees to community service, paying restitution to avoid trial in securities fraud case

Paxton, who will not have to enter a plea under the terms of the agreement, faced the prospect of decades in prison if he had been convicted of fraud.

www.texastribune.org

 

[Sithborg]

Yeah, the GOP is panicking. I wonder what they are seeing in Texas

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

Arizona election official, a target of threats, trains a new generation as he retires

Maricopa county supervisor Bill Gates revealed he had post-traumatic stress in 2023. Now, he’s passing the baton

www.theguardian.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Election denier group True the Vote is planning to monitor ballot drop boxes with “24/7 streaming video” that will be “available for anyone”

On Steve Bannon’s War Room, Catherine Engelbrecht — founder of the election denial organization True the Vote — claimed that the organization “intend[s]” to have “surveillance footage” for monitoring ballot drop boxes in states like Michigan and Wisconsin, making it “available for anyone who...

www.mediamatters.org

 

[blueharvest]

Election denier group True the Vote is planning to monitor ballot drop boxes with “24/7 streaming video” that will be “available for anyone”

On Steve Bannon’s War Room, Catherine Engelbrecht — founder of the election denial organization True the Vote — claimed that the organization “intend[s]” to have “surveillance footage” for monitoring ballot drop boxes in states like Michigan and Wisconsin, making it “available for anyone who...

www.mediamatters.org

In other words, Republicans will be trying to cheat during the upcoming election in two of the Swing States, doing their best to disenfranchise as many people as possible.

 

[squeekness]

In other words, Republicans will be trying to cheat during the upcoming election in two of the Swing States, doing their best to disenfranchise as many people as possible.

Pretty much. Video can be distorted as we've already seen with the Georgia election workers.

 

[blueharvest]

Russia ramping up election-meddling efforts to help Trump beat Harris, intel officials say

US intelligence officials said Russia's election-meddling efforts go beyond those alleged in sweeping indictment unsealed Wednesday.

www.usatoday.com

 

[blueharvest]

GOP using great replacement fears to push "voter suppression tactics"

Republicans' noncitizen voting "drumbeat" threatens to "disenfranchise eligible citizens" who tend to vote Democratic.

www.salon.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Pennsylvania voters can cast a provisional ballot if their mail ballot is rejected, court says

A state court decided Thursday that voters in Pennsylvania can cast provisional ballots in place of mail-in ballots that are rejected for a garden-variety mistake they made when they returned it.

keystonenewsroom.com