Showing posts with label voter ID laws. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voter ID laws. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Republicans, Crushing American Votes
From The New Yorker today. Their cartoon.
If only it were funny. If only it were only funny.
Monday, March 1, 2021
We Must Outlaw Gerrymandering and Voter ID Laws
Republicans don't feel they've gerrymandered enough or put into place enough voter ID laws and disenfranchised enough Americans. They want to do it still more, after this last election they lost.
We must stop them. We must not allow it. It's un-American.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Quote of the Day -- Right Wing, Republican Party Racist Vote Suppression Edition
Saturday, February 6, 2021
Republicans Lost In This Election -- So What Are They Doing?
They are trying to disenfranchise as many American votes and voters as they can.
That is, ladies and gentlemen, they, Republicans, are trying to make sure that fewer and fewer of us can and do vote. They are trying to take away our vote. It's the only way they can get into office and then stay there. The fewer of us that can vote, the more likely Republicans can gain and keep office. Most usually, this is done by disenfranchising the votes of minorities, Blacks and Hispanics and Latinx citizens and voters.
Already this year, 106 bills have been introduced in 28 states—including 17 under complete GOP control, where passage is more likely—to undermine access to the franchise. According to the Brennan Center's report, "These proposals primarily seek to: (1) limit mail voting access; (2) impose stricter voter ID requirements; (3) limit successful pro-voter registration policies; and (4) enable more aggressive voter roll purges."
"These bills," the report argues, "are an unmistakable response to the unfounded and dangerous lies about fraud that followed the 2020 election."
...The GOP has been trying to undercut efforts to expand voting access for years. "A decade ago," Berman wrote, "Republicans passed new voter ID laws and other efforts to curtail voting rights when they took power in the states following [former President] Barack Obama's election."
But now, he added, "Republicans are taking their assault on voting rights to the next level." Like the Brennan Center, Berman attributed the surge in anti-democracy legislation to Trump's failed bid to subvert the will of the people in last year's election.
According to Berman, the GOP is "trying to accomplish through legislation what Trump couldn't with litigation. All in all, these efforts amount to the most concerted attempts to roll back voting rights since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965."
Our path forward this moment:
"Democrats have a clear choice. They can get rid of the filibuster to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the For the People Act to stop GOP voter suppression, or they can allow the GOP to undermine democracy for the next decade."
"Democrats have a clear choice. They can get rid of the filibuster to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the For the People Act to stop GOP voter suppression, or they can allow the GOP to undermine democracy for the next decade."
We have to stop this. We have to stop them. We can't let them take our vote, our votes. We can't let them disenfranchise Americans. We can't let them steal elections any more than any other political party should be able to.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Our Next National Hurdles Once Trump Is Gone
From The New Yorker yesterday.
Along with cleaning up so very many messes after this President and his presidency, we need to make sure that nothing, nothing even remotely close to Donald J Trump ever, ever happens again in America. And the way we do it is by, first, overturning Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court and then ending campaign contributions entirely in our nation. After that, also outlawing gerrymandering and voter ID laws that disenfranchise fellow American citizens from voting. Finally we need to bring back the Fairness Doctrine in our government and media.
I'm not hopeful. We could do it, we could it all but no, I'm not hopeful.
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Sunday, November 29, 2020
Great Time to Point Out What We Need To Do As a Nation
Three things, three big and important things, at minimum, we need to do to and with our government given the new administration that will be comind in. Next year couldn't be soon enough. First up--
We need to do this and badly. We need to first overturn Citizens United and then end the legalized bribery we call "campaign contributions." We could easily do this if we but have the will, too. We should do what the UK did long ago and make our elections only, say, a month or 3 months long. This would have many benefits besides killing the need for our government legislators to beg for and raise and have so much money for their political campaigns. It would also end the nearly constant campaign cycles we have now. Those two right there are huge benefits.
Next up--
We need to do this so, of course, no political party even can let alone does gerrymander any political district so they can win reelection in perpetuity. It needs to be illegal for both political parties, everywhere, period. This only make sense.
And yes, end voter ID laws since they only disenfranchise fellow taxpaying American citizens and are frequently racist, too.
Then, third--
Finally, we need to get the division and ugliness out of our media, out of what is still called "news" but which, because of ending the Fairness Doctrine, has become the likes of Fox "news" and Breitbart and so much Right Wing, even literally hate radio and media. It needs to be illegal, again, to not show at least 2 sides of any issue or story and not just one. Lying on the news should be illegal.
So there you are. With a new Presidential administration coming in soon, these are 3 things, at minimum we need and need so sorely. I doubt we do them but there is talk of changing things and now is the time. We are long, long overdue on these.
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Friday, November 13, 2020
Taking Disenfranchisement to a Whole New Level
Breaking today.
Judge denies GOP lawsuit to halt certification of Detroit election results
Gerrymandering wasn't enough for RepublicansSo they added "voter ID" laws.
That wasn't enough. Republicans felt they didn't disenfranchise enough Americans, taxpaying, voting American citizens.
So now they want to completely ignore or disavow our vote, our votes, our election. They've taken it all to a whole very new, ugly, higher level with this most recent Presidential election. Very, very, very un-American.
Thanks, Republicans!
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Companies Had to Form an Organization to Counter This President's and His Political Party's Efforts Against Our Voting
This is what this has all come down to.
This Republican Party President and that political party have been working so hard against we Americans, we citizens and taxpayers voting and for so long, they had to form an organization to work for helping us vote. Check it out.
Civic Alliance
From their website:
We are the Civic Alliance,
a non-partisan group of businesses
working together to build a future
where everyone participates in
shaping our country.
Participation is fundamental to a healthy, functioning democracy.
Yet, in recent U.S. elections, nearly half of eligible voters didn’t participate.
In 2020, a global pandemic, growing civil unrest, and polarizing politics are challenging our democracy in new ways.
As a growing coalition of businesses, we strengthen our democracy by supporting safe, healthy and trusted elections, and by inspiring our employees and customers to participate in civic life.
We aspire for historic voter turnout in 2020 and beyond, with a goal to achieve 80% voter turnout by 2028.
We aspire for historic voter turnout in 2020 and beyond, with a goal to achieve 80% voter turnout by 2028.
We have a ways to go, but by working together, we will create a culture where civics matter and every vote counts.
More than 60 Civic Alliance member companies – including Starbucks, Target, Old Navy, Salesforce, Microsoft, Expedia, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, and Warby Parker – are taking concrete steps to encourage their employees or consumers to serve as poll workers.Each of our companies has unique values. Yet, we are united by these shared beliefs:
- Every American has a voice in our democracy.
- Voting should be safe and accessible to all.
- Elections must be fair and transparent.
As business leaders, we’re committed to strengthening our democracy by encouraging nonpartisan voter participation. Here are unique ways each of us is activating our companies and communities.
How cool is that, that they would do this but ladies and gentlemen, how sick is it that this is necessary? How sick is it that the Republicans could, would and are fighting our voting, what with their gerrymandering and then voter ID laws and so much, how sick is it that this is necessary?
Anyway, I was so glad to see their full, double-page ad in Sunday's New York Times. Very cool. Great on these companies. I'm going to do what I can to support them. Hoping you will, too.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020
On This President, His Political Party and Voting
From the interwebs today.
Thanks, Republicans.
Thursday, April 26, 2018
What Gerrymandering Is, What It Does, Why You Should Care and What We Need To Do
And for that matter, we also need to press, push, fight to end "voter ID laws", too.
How Voter ID Laws Are Being Used
to Disenfranchise Minorities
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