in fairness, the first example cited in the intro of the Brennan Center report on purges is the 200,000 voters disappeared from Brooklyn voter rolls in the 2016 Dem primary...
I disappeared from the roles in Texas when they “cleaned” up their lists. It took like 4 phone calls from our resident Republican volunteers to find me. I was cast off until I insisted on calls. Literally had to make a pest of myself.
200,000 is absurd high for just Brooklyn.
"Fake news" CNN trashing NY primaries:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/19/opini...ver/index.htmlNationally, some 44% of millennial voters are registering as independents rather than with a party, yet polls show this age group overwhelmingly self-identifies as Democratically-leaning. Among the millennial generation's independents, African Americans are the most likely to lean Democratic, followed by Latinos.
Why does the New York Democratic Party insist on locking them out of the primaries and creating a culture of non-participation?
The answer is simple. These closed primaries allow party bosses to exert control over the elections.
GOP edition: cleaning up voter rolls by removing living US citizens .
https://politics.myajc.com/news/stat...pNe18YGQ0hYUJ/Georgia canceled the registration of more than a half-million voters over the weekend, part of an ongoing round of maintenance to clean up the state’s voting rolls.
Each of the 591,548 voters affected by the move had already been on the state’s “inactive” registration list. That means they had not voted, updated their voter registration information, filed a change of name or address, signed a pe ion or responded to attempts to confirm their last known address for at least the past three years.
In New Hampshire, if you're a college student who fails to register your car, or don't have a state driver's license, you. You can't vote.
http://nhpr.org/post/sununu-signs-voter-residency-bill-legal-challenge-expected#stream/0in a statement, the governor said the bill, which aims to make people like college students who vote here abide by other residency requirements, like getting a drivers license or registering their cars, means "Every person who votes in New Hampshire will be treated the same. This is the essence of an equal right to vote."
wonder how that's not a poll tax.
Sununu argues it's equal treatment.
If NH requires this of everyone else, maybe he's got a legal leg to stand on.
Sounds like bs, but I don't know NH voter laws.
mass mailing based voter caging, another GOP specialty:
http://www.projectvote.org/issues/li.../voter-caging/Voter caging is the practice of sending mass direct mailings to registered voters by non-forwardable mail, then compiling lists of voters, called “caging lists,” from the returned mail in order to formally challenge their right to vote on that basis alone. Armed with no other evidence than returned mail, partisan operatives abuse state laws to file targeted mass challenges to voters.
Who does not have a driver lic ? Oh yeah illegals do not
some more
Obey laws you get the privilege of voting
I thought being a US citizen or being a citizen of a state, county or city was sufficient. Silly me.
Actually, lots of legit voters don't have IDs.
Old people, sick people, poor people, disabled people, people in rural areas far from state offices that issue them.
You want to exclude all of them because they're hard up?
you, ducks.
designed to be thrown away:
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-po...ow-voter-purgeI showed Ohio voting rights attorney Robert Fitrakis a postcard on which one’s voting rights hang, and he gave, word for word, the same response I got from another direct mail expert, Mark Swedlund (whose clientele include eBay and AT&T): “Looks like junk mail, you’d throw it in the garbage.”
check this:
the US Census Bureau’s massive study of mail return rates. Dig this:
- While 90 percent of those 65 years of age and older return the Census form, only 55.4 percent of those 18 to 24 reply.
- Homeowners are 32 percent more likely than renters to return forms.
- Only 65 percent of Latino voters mailed back an initial Census form, as did 70 percent of Black voters—versus over 80 percent of “non-Hispanic whites.”
And crucially, according to the Census study, 12 percent of mailings simply go astray—especially, says Wychocki, in poor, urban communities, where the tenants hop between apartments in the same neighborhood. And let’s not even discuss students and the homeless.
so, if you're a US citizen with no fixed address, you lose your right to vote?
ing bull .
yeah, DMC, in b4 "there's no right to vote in the USA"
so much for democracy, the pols choose the voters, not the other way around.
The judge ordered Kobach to take continuing legal education. Kobach will appeal:
http://www.governing.com/topics/poli...e-Classes.htmlRobinson's ruling amounted to a takedown of the law that Kobach had championed and lawmakers approved several years ago. She found that it "disproportionately impacts duly qualified registration applicants, while only nominally preventing noncitizen voter registration."
ducks doesn't care as long as favors team red, tbh... it's never been about Americans, but some Americans
winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. a bunch of loser citizens who don't have IDs
Voter suppression, and cheating.
Judge throws out Iowa Voter ID law and reinstates early voting, Democrats celebrate
Polk County District Judge Karen Romano
ruled that
elements of the state’s new system requiring state-issued voter identification numbers on absentee ballots could harm the rights of voters to participate in elections, “in contravention” of Iowa’s
Cons ution.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre
Romano is now in Kock Bros' cross-hairs. Kocks will spend millions to defeat her, and why not buy enough IA pols to change that bothersome IA Cons ution, too?
slave state news
Voting precincts closed across Georgia since election oversight lifted
voters trying to preserve their local precincts are losing the war as voting locations are vanishing across Georgia.
County election officials have closed 214 precincts across the state since 2012, according to an analysis by The Atlanta Journal-Cons ution.
That figure means nearly 8 percent of the state’s polling places, from fire stations to schools, have shut their doors over the past six years.
Voting rights activists see the poll closures as an attempt to suppress turnout by African-American voters,
The state doesn’t monitor the closure of polling places either.
The Georgia Secretary of State’s Office did not know how many precincts had been eliminated until told by the AJC.
The counties hit hardest by precinct closures are often in rural, impoverished areas where decisions about voting locations are made without attracting much public attention.
One-third of Georgia’s counties — 53 of 159 — have fewer precincts today than they did in 2012, according to the AJC’s count.
Of the counties that have closed voting locations, 39 have poverty rates that are higher than the state average.
Thirty have significant African-American populations, making up at least 25 percent of residents.
https://politics.myajc.com/news/stat...m0Gp9pKu7dfrN/
there were good reasons we had federal preclearance under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act..
the trend of voting laws enacted since Shelby -- restricting the franchise -- pretty much demonstrate why preclearance previously existed.
https://www.justice.gov/crt/jurisdic...ered-section-5
unelected judges clearing the barriers to restricting the franchise.
where are the conservatives complaining about unelected judges now?
the corruption, politicization of SCOTUS and the Federal judiciary is fundamental, even primary, to the strategy of the oligarchy's coup d'etat
Observers noted that so-called judge K in his first cases on SCOTUS was actually arguing cases FOR the oligarchy's lawyers
Voters are being scrubbed from the rolls at a faster rate than they are entering them:
https://politicalwire.com/2019/05/15...m-voter-rolls/“Between 2014 and 2016, states removed almost 16 million voters from the rolls. That’s almost 4 million more than between 2006 and 2008. And it should be obvious that that is a rate that outstrips the growth rate of total registered voters and the growth rate of total population.”
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