Fuck it. Voting should be required by law. Maybe hand out a jaywalking ticket with a $10 fine for missing. Also, vote by mail for everyone. We do that in WA and it works great. With the appropriate encryption tricks, I think we could design a system that would allow each of us to verify that the system recorded our vote correctly, and still maintain a secret ballot.
That's an excellent approach. I would hope that the fine be nominal, preferably correlated with income. You want it to annoy the slackers, but you don't want to make people (or their children) go hungry.
It's a good sign that they're so aware that they're toxic that they're beavering away to cut the vote entirely away from us. Now if we can just get enough goddamned Democrats to pass the VRA and the John Lewis VRA, we can stop some of this heinous fuckery.
The new Voting Rights Act needs to have as punishment the stripping of voting rights from anyone knowingly attempting to disenfranchise legally recognized voters, either individually or as a class.
My hunch is they do so indirectly by going with demographic features correlated with Democratic party affiliation, under the guise of them being "more likely" to be non-citizens or other groups ineligible to vote (eg has an address in a particular neighborhood, lives with non-relatives, single woman living alone/female head-of-household, etc).
During the storm in Tennessee Friday night Mexican employees where sent home when the employees parking lot was flooded. Families have not heard from their loved ones.
As times goes on with events like this, treating people without giving a damn, does not help me any compassion for the south. I'm sorry for feeling this way . When you see "leaders" purging voter rolls and all the other terrible ways ordinary people living as best they can along with a lying shitty repub party down there with their lying, sick ,moron pab . Jesus christ what is wrong with these people?
I understand, in strictly military terms, why General Sherman veered left to march to the sea and visit Savannah, but gosh, couldn't he have gone right and inflicted some pain on this fucked up state, too?
Lawsuit filed by 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵, 𝗜𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗶𝘀 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀 and an Illinois voter against the Illinois State Board of Elections and its executive director...
That Michigan disenfranchising effort:
The plaintiffs, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗲 (𝗥𝗡𝗖) and two Republican voters allege that at least 53 counties across the state have more active registered voters than adults over the age of 18, and an additional 23 counties have active voter registration rates that exceed 90% of adults over 18
Plaintiffs as usual suspects... demonstrating complete confidence in their candidates ability to compete in that "marketplace of ideas"...
Fuck it. Voting should be required by law. Maybe hand out a jaywalking ticket with a $10 fine for missing. Also, vote by mail for everyone. We do that in WA and it works great. With the appropriate encryption tricks, I think we could design a system that would allow each of us to verify that the system recorded our vote correctly, and still maintain a secret ballot.
This is how it works in Australia. You can return your ballot blank if you wish to abstain, but you must return your ballot or pay a fine.
That's an excellent approach. I would hope that the fine be nominal, preferably correlated with income. You want it to annoy the slackers, but you don't want to make people (or their children) go hungry.
In Australia it's $20
Ta, Marcie. When we fight, we win. When they can't, they cheat.
It’s the ‘little things’ that go under the radar that could cost us the ballgame. Thanks for keeping us focused on the primary objective!
My eyes and brain at first read "Alabama, The Heart of Darkness" on that illustration.
Bet some others of you did too.
Related: the Georgia suit goes to trial today!
https://www.salon.com/2024/10/01/georgia-to-decide-whether-the-states-maga-board-broke-the-law-with-late-rule-changes/?in_brief=true
It's a good sign that they're so aware that they're toxic that they're beavering away to cut the vote entirely away from us. Now if we can just get enough goddamned Democrats to pass the VRA and the John Lewis VRA, we can stop some of this heinous fuckery.
The new Voting Rights Act needs to have as punishment the stripping of voting rights from anyone knowingly attempting to disenfranchise legally recognized voters, either individually or as a class.
What I want to know is, do they segment these by party affiliation? Are they indiscriminate in their invalidations? One wonders.
My hunch is they do so indirectly by going with demographic features correlated with Democratic party affiliation, under the guise of them being "more likely" to be non-citizens or other groups ineligible to vote (eg has an address in a particular neighborhood, lives with non-relatives, single woman living alone/female head-of-household, etc).
Ahhhh..As Dorothea said, data profiling.
Data profiling.
Wouldn't it be great if states that disenfranchise voters didn't get their electoral votes counted?
Looking at you, Florida and Texas.
The 14th Amendment provides for that.
Yeah, kind of, doesn't it? I had to reread it, and Section 2 and 3 seem to at least hint at that.
WWJD. "Who Would Jesus Disenfranchise?"
During the storm in Tennessee Friday night Mexican employees where sent home when the employees parking lot was flooded. Families have not heard from their loved ones.
As times goes on with events like this, treating people without giving a damn, does not help me any compassion for the south. I'm sorry for feeling this way . When you see "leaders" purging voter rolls and all the other terrible ways ordinary people living as best they can along with a lying shitty repub party down there with their lying, sick ,moron pab . Jesus christ what is wrong with these people?
Just remember that good Wonkers live all over the South. We do what we can. Hatred of our entire state(s) does not help.
I know my friend. It's hard for a person like to understand how shitty people can be. Down there or up here.
This is the way these unreconstructed states remain unreconstructed.
Remember, your vote is powerful. Republicans know this and that's whey they try to stop you from doing it.
Check your registration in light of their malfeasance. www.vote.org or www.iwillvote.com
Be sure to mount up and let's win it for Jimmy Carter! He's holding on to see us defeat President Klan Robe again!
I understand, in strictly military terms, why General Sherman veered left to march to the sea and visit Savannah, but gosh, couldn't he have gone right and inflicted some pain on this fucked up state, too?
Alabama. The Fart of Dixie. FIFY
That Illinois disenfranchising effort:
Lawsuit filed by 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵, 𝗜𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗶𝘀 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀 and an Illinois voter against the Illinois State Board of Elections and its executive director...
That Michigan disenfranchising effort:
The plaintiffs, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗲 (𝗥𝗡𝗖) and two Republican voters allege that at least 53 counties across the state have more active registered voters than adults over the age of 18, and an additional 23 counties have active voter registration rates that exceed 90% of adults over 18
Plaintiffs as usual suspects... demonstrating complete confidence in their candidates ability to compete in that "marketplace of ideas"...
It says 'Family' right there. That's how you tell.
Judicial Watch has been a malignant tumor on this county's polity for well over thirty years.
Those rats won't fuck themselves.
Purge. It's not just a Magnum Force thing.