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

[MagnarTheGreat]

Why it's so hard for young people to run for office

The 2024 presidential campaign wasn’t just the strangest campaign our country has ever seen, it was also the most expensive political operation in history. That has pro-...

www.dailykos.com

 

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[blueharvest]

How GOP rule in Washington might reshape election law

Republicans don’t have big majorities, but they have ideas, from cleaning up voter rolls to eliminating electronic voting.

www.votebeat.org

 

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[Herofan]

Election denialism emerges on the left after Trump’s win

Conspiracy theories that the election was miscounted, hacked and stolen have spread in some left-leaning online communities.

www.nbcnews.com

There easily can be a few, even a lot of bad wrong things without them reaching the very high threshold of enough to effect the outcome(s).

 

[blueharvest]

Federal Judge Dismisses Right-Wing Lawsuit Seeking Access to Wisconsin Voter Rolls

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

 

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How Trump’s New DOJ Could Shape the Future of Voting Rights

How will a Trump DOJ run by loyalists and possibly purged of career attorneys impact voting rights?

www.democracydocket.com

 

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A 150-Year Critique of the Electoral College

As far back as the 1870s, The Nation opposed the existence of the Electoral College as "so grotesque as to be almost ludicrous.”

www.thenation.com

 

[blueharvest]

‘Disenfranchised and demobilized’: Native Americans face ballot box barriers in Arizona

Navajo Nation sued Apache county for a second time over alleged scramble to cure mail-in ballots – on top of other systemic hurdles like long lines and translation issues

www.theguardian.com

 

[squeekness]

How Trump’s New DOJ Could Shape the Future of Voting Rights

How will a Trump DOJ run by loyalists and possibly purged of career attorneys impact voting rights?

www.democracydocket.com

I'm sure the voting rights of the whitest and richest are perfectly secure. The rest of us? Not so much.

 

[blueharvest]

Christian Nationalism’s First Item on the Agenda: Repeal Women’s Right to Vote

Right after the election, Pastor Joel Webbon, President of the Right Response Ministries, said that half of his vote was stolen from him by the 19th amendment—that would be the 1920 amendment that enshrined women’s right to vote. As Webbon noted in his podcast, he does “allow” his wife to vote...

msmagazine.com

 

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[blueharvest]

Pardoned felon Dinesh D'Souza apologizes for election conspiracy movie

Months before the MAGA filmmaker apologized to a Georgia voter for wrongly accusing him of election fraud, his widely debunked film and book was pulled by the publisher as part of a defamation lawsuit settlement.

www.independent.co.uk

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Vance, GOP committees ask Supreme Court to strike down coordination limits

Vice President-elect JD Vance and Republican committees asked the Supreme Court to overturn federal limits that restrict political parties from coordinating spending with candidates on the grounds that they violate the First Amendment. Limits on contributions to candidates are much lower than...

www.yahoo.com

 

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[blueharvest]

NC Democratic Party sues over GOP efforts to toss 60,000 votes. Race for Supreme Court seat hangs in balance

Democratic Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs leads Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin in the race for Riggs' seat on the NC Supreme Court, according to results of a recount. But the election is still far from decided.

www.wral.com

 

[blueharvest]

Six Republicans in Nevada again charged for 2020 fake elector scheme

Judge had dismissed original indictment, ruling that Clark county was wrong venue for filing charges

www.theguardian.com

 

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[squeekness]

To what end? Harris lost and conceeded.

 

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[blueharvest]

The GOP stoked fears of noncitizens voting. Cases in Ohio show how rhetoric and reality diverge

Ohio's Republican secretary of state and attorney general sought to reassure voters before the November election that the state's elections were being vigorously protected against the possibility of immigrants voting illegally.

apnews.com

 

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[blueharvest]

Delco woman accused of fraudulently trying to register 4 people to vote, including dead father

A Delaware County woman is accused of trying to fraudulently register four people – including her dead father and a person who died inside her home -- to vote in the 2024 presidential election.

www.nbcphiladelphia.com

 

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[squeekness]

It's gotta be some kind of evil to go out of your way to make it so people can't vote.