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Voter Suppression - May 2017

1 juin 2017
#unhackthevote, #Gerrymandering, #CripTheVote
Photo via @Greg_Palast
· 12 mai

Why did many States not want the help of DHS? Because they don't want their Machines Secured. They want to win Elections.

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· 8 mai

Boom! This from a Poll Judge in Texas. Just came in to us today. Please read. This is just crazy.

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· 11 mai

Kris Kobach, vice chair of "Election Integrity" commission, has been sued by the ACLU for voter suppression 4 times. Our record is 4-0.

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· 11 mai

Trump ‘election integrity’ commission w/ Kris Kobach as vice chair will lay groundwork for massive voter suppression

Trump’s Commission on ‘Election Integrity’ Will Lead to Massive Voter Suppression
It will be led by Mike Pence and Kris Kobach, who have a very long history of making it harder to vote.
thenation.com
35 réponses 476 Retweets 372 j'aime
· 11 mai

Trump, Pence and Kobach set up New Voting Commission to Assault Voting Rights. Flow Join Retweet

Breaking: Trump to Launch a Voting “Commission” with No Credibility, with Pence, Kobach, and the EAC’s McCormick | Election Law Blog
electionlawblog.org
38 réponses 946 Retweets 614 j'aime
· 9 mai
En réponse à

5. States with highest Black vote drop (MI, WI, OH, NC) had biggest vote list purges and new ID laws. It’s not "turn-out," it’s Jim Crow.

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· 9 mai

1. WaPo says won because "fewer blacks voted." They left out that Black folk TRIED to vote and were blocked

Analysis | Why did Trump win? More whites — and fewer blacks — actually voted.
New data showed who voted — and who didn't -- in key battleground states.
washingtonpost.com
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· 8 mai

"Republicans behave as if they do not expect the 2018 elections to be free and fair"

How the Healthcare Bill Exposes the Trump Administration's Chilling Authoritarian Agenda <-- my latest
· 5 mai

Reupping this thread on voter suppression for all the white male journos claiming it doesn't exist

En réponse à @sarahkendzior
Voting rights and voter suppression need to be a central issue for anyone opposing US autocracy. For moral reasons, but also pragmatically.
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· 5 mai
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Voter suppression was *already* a problem. Now we have a white supremacist admin and an AG with one of the worst civil rights records ever.

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· 5 mai
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Nothing screams willfully ignorant white privilege like smugly laughing off systemic voter suppression as a loopy conspiracy theory.

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· 4 mai
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Bill is devastating in own right, but also ominous. You don't pass something this unpopular thinking there will be free and fair elections.

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· 4 mai
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When you flaunt disregard for public will this blatantly, you're assuming public will is irrelevant. You have a lock through corruption.

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· 4 mai

The don't care about a voter reaction. Like all good authoritarians, they choose the voters, not the reverse.

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· 4 mai

Listen to - the AHCA, voter suppression, pumped up DOJ/CBP/ICE are not isolated. Fight back *now*.

And deported. But yes. Old-fashioned GOP voter suppression combined with extreme white supremacist ideology. Fight this; don't count on 2018
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· 4 mai

My representative felt totally safe voting in favor of AHCA because of the ridiculous that makes his district.

Went to look up my representative, about the Trump-Russia ties and... geez. Gerrymandering is a serious issue. This is stupid.
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· 17 mai

MT 100s of disabled voters using absentee ballots had ballots rejected over handwriting via

ACLU Challenges New Hampshire Voter Signature-Matching Law
CONCORD, N.H. — The American Civil Liberties Union today sued New Hampshire for invalidating the absentee ballots of hundreds of voters, many of whom are disabled, without warning.At issue is a state law that allows election officials — who have no handwriting-analysis expertise — to reject an absentee ballot, without giving notice to the voter, if they think there is a signature mismatch in the voter’s paperwork. People with disabilities are far more likely to have fluctuating handwriting or to require the assistance of someone to sign their name, as allowed under federal disability rights law. “People should not be denied their fundamental right to vote because of penmanship, but that’s exactly what is happening in New Hampshire,” said Gilles Bissonnette, legal director of the ACLU of New Hampshire. Voters are never even informed that their ballots have been thrown out. Over the past five years, more than 500 voters have been disenfranchised under the law. They include plaintiff Mary Saucedo, a 94-year-old Manchester resident who is legally blind and allowed to obtain assistance in completing the absentee ballot process. For that, she relies on her husband of 51 years, Gus, an 86-year-old military veteran. In the 2016 general election, he assisted her in filling out her ballot, sent it in, and assumed her vote had been counted. Unbeknownst to them, it hadn’t. “Voting means we have a say as to who should be in charge. In my household growing up during the Depression, it was very important to vote. My father instilled the importance of voting in me. It was not about the party you voted for, but about picking the most qualified candidate. He taught me that everyone who is eligible should vote. It was our duty because voting is what makes our country independent,” she said, adding it was shocking and deeply disturbing to have her ballot tossed out without notice.“The decision to throw out a ballot and deprive a citizen of their vote is essentially arbitrary. There are no transparent procedures for evaluating voter signatures,” said Julie Ebenstein, staff attorney with the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project. “New Hampshire cannot create barriers that prevent individuals with disabilities from voting and having their votes counted. Period.”The lawsuit, Saucedo v. Gardner, cites violations of the federal Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act. It was filed in U.S. District Court of New Hampshire. The complaint is at: https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/saucedo-v-gardner-complaintMore information is at: https://www.aclu.org/cases/saucedo-v-gardner
aclu.org
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· 20 mai

Let us count the ways disabled people r prevented from voting. Here is an example of one way we're kept from voting:

How Disabled People Are Prevented From Voting
A new lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union alleges widespread disability discrimination in New Hampshire's absentee process.
psmag.com
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· 22 mai

Kobach's sweeping search for Voter fraud turned up 9 people. 6 GOP! Now he is on a nationwide search

‘Kris Kobach Came After Me for an Honest Mistake’
Trump’s pick to investigate his theories about voter fraud has a record of targeting older conservatives.
politico.com
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· 22 mai

Huge victory for North Carolina black voters: SCOTUS strikes down two GOP-gerrymandered districts. & his legal team fought &won

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· 21 mai

Those illegal voters Kobach found? Total=9, 6 were Republicans. He disenfranchised 20,000+ LEGAL voters to do it.

‘Kris Kobach Came After Me for an Honest Mistake’
Trump’s pick to investigate his theories about voter fraud has a record of targeting older conservatives.
politico.com
30 réponses 1 795 Retweets 1 366 j'aime
· 22 mai

Hasen explains why this is so huge: the ruling paves the way for treating race and party as interchangeable in the American South.

Breaking: 5-3 Vote Affirms NC Racial Gerrymandering Case, w/ Thomas in Majority. Roberts Dissent
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· 22 mai

The North Carolina gerrymandering ruling by is actually huge. Way huger than it looks at first. Let me explain.

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· 18 mai

On I told story of 58 year-old black man in WI who made 7 trips to 2 states trying to get voter ID

Trump's Election Integrity Commission Could Have A 'Chilling Effect' On Voting Rights
Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot, says the new commission will keep alive the idea that voter fraud is rampant — despite the fact that "all the studies show the opposite."
npr.org
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· 22 mai

this story makes a nice response to the "what's so hard about ID" crowd

On I told story of 58 year-old black man in WI who made 7 trips to 2 states trying to get voter ID
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· 22 mai
En réponse à

This map was arguably the single most aggressive congressional gerrymander in modern history. GOP won 10 of 13 seats in a 50-50 swing state

SCOTUS upholds decision striking down NC GOP's 2012-2014 congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander
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· 22 mai

Reminder: most black elders never got birth certificates because white doctors refused to allow black mothers into hospitals to give birth

On I told story of 58 year-old black man in WI who made 7 trips to 2 states trying to get voter ID
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· 22 mai

Yep. Be wary when ppl scoff @ criticism of Voter ID laws w/"How hard can it be?" That's some1 who's never contemplated systemic oppression.

Reminder: most black elders never got birth certificates because white doctors refused to allow black mothers into hospitals to give birth
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· 23 mai

Nothing is more urgent for Texas GOP than preventing blacks & Latinos from voting

Texas voter ID law struck down 5 times by courts, so Greg Abbott called legislative emergency to pass new one
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· 25 mai

Gonna take a break from Gianforte bodyslam to talk about something in Montana that’s super underreported: Native American voter suppression

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· 30 mai

SCOTUS agrees to hear Ohio voter purge case. Ohio has purged 2 million voters since 2011, more than any other state

As the GOP Convention Begins, Ohio Is Purging Tens of Thousands of Democratic Voters
Democrats are twice as likely as Republicans to be purged from the voter rolls in the state’s largest counties.
thenation.com
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· 30 mai

We are a center-left nation with a massive vote suppression problem.

SCOTUS agrees to hear Ohio voter purge case. Ohio has purged 2 million voters since 2011, more than any other state
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· 30 mai

"Dems lost OH because of economic anxiety!!!" Or....

SCOTUS agrees to hear Ohio voter purge case. Ohio has purged 2 million voters since 2011, more than any other state
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· 30 mai

"Democrats are twice as likely as Republicans to be purged from the voter rolls in the state’s largest counties."

SCOTUS agrees to hear Ohio voter purge case. Ohio has purged 2 million voters since 2011, more than any other state
· 30 mai

Every state should do this. Automatic voter registration would be country's single most effective registration drive

GOP Illinois Governor Will Sign Automatic Voter Registration After Vetoing It Last Year
Advocates tried again. This time, they succeeded.
huffingtonpost.com
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· 30 mai

Voter suppression should be main election focus not only of Dems who want to win but of anyone who cares about justice and civil rights.

SCOTUS agrees to hear Ohio voter purge case. Ohio has purged 2 million voters since 2011, more than any other state
40 réponses 1 553 Retweets 2 340 j'aime
· 31 mai

This from about the ongoing (minority) voter suppression efforts led by is important.

Trump's electoral commission is a sham
Jason Kander writes that the President's Commision on Election Integrity is actually an initiative to suppress Democratic voters and secure an electoral win in the next presidential election.
cnn.com
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