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The only way the Repugs can is by ing democracy, voter suppression, gerrymandering, by lying, while ing their cons uents in the 99%.
the occurrence is minuscule, double digits in a decade and a half. the remedy disenfranchises thousands of citizens every time there is a general election.
The only way the Repugs can is by ing democracy, voter suppression, gerrymandering, by lying, while ing their cons uents in the 99%.
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Ohio’s Voter Fraud Investigation Finds Almost Nothing
Ohio Secretary Jon Husted’s office announced last week that his ongoing investigation into voter fraud has identified 27 people who are not citizens, but voted in Ohio elections. An earlier report by Husted’s office found that 17 “non-citizens” had cast ballots, adding up to a total of 44 illegally cast ballots since 2012.
Given these numbers, a mere 0.000006 percent of the 7.7 million registered voters in Ohio cast illegal ballots.
Despite the miniscule numbers, Husted hailed the efforts as a success.Repug newspeak!
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/20...ality+Check%29
How many Dem voters were denied the vote?
Fox Host: 'Do We Really Want Everybody Voting? I Don’t Think So!
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29
SCOTUS allows Amercan-democracy-loving Repug/Walker/Kock/ALEC voter suppression to stand. No doubt, other states will go as extreme as WI.
BREAKING: Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Texas’s Voter ID Law
One day before the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, one of the most conservative federal appeals courts in the country wielded that law to strike down a Texas voter suppression law.
A unanimous panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in an opinion written by a George W. Bush appointee, held that Texas’s voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act and must, at the very least, be significantly weakened.
Though the court did not accept every argument raised against the state’s voter ID law, and its opinion does not go nearly as far as a trial judge’s decision which also struck down this law, it is a significant blow to the state’s efforts to make voting more difficult.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/05/3688384/breaking-federal-appeals-court-strikes-down-texass-voter-id-law/
whoa! The hyper-conservative 5th Circuit? WTF?
This much more important than the Billionaire's Klown Show.
Conservatives have been disenfranchising (black) CITIZENS since the PROGRESS of the 1960s.
A Dream Undone
Inside the 50-year campaign to roll back the Voting Rights Act.
In 2008, for the first time, black turnout was nearly equal to white turnout, and Barack Obama was elected the nation’s first black president.
Since then, however, the legal trend has abruptly reversed. In 2010, Republicans flipped control of 11 state legislatures and, raising the specter of voter fraud, began undoing much of the work of Frye and subsequent generations of state legislators.
They rolled back early voting, eliminated same-day registration, disqualified ballots filed outside home precincts and created new demands for photo ID at polling places.
In 2013, the Supreme Court, in the case of Shelby County v. Holder, directly countermanded the Section 5 authority of the Justice Department to dispute any of these changes in the states Section 5 covered.
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., writing for the majority, declared that the Voting Rights Act had done its job, and it was time to move on. Republican state legislators proceeded with a new round of even more restrictive voting laws.
All of these seemingly sudden changes were a result of a little-known part of the American civil rights story.
It involves a largely Republican countermovement of ideologues and partisan operatives who, from the moment the Voting Rights Act became law, methodically set out to undercut or dismantle its most important requirements.
The story of that decades-long battle over the iconic law’s tenets and effects has rarely been told, but in July many of its veteran warriors met in a North Carolina courthouse to argue the legality of a new state voting law that the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School has called one of the “most restrictive since the Jim Crow era.”
The decision, which is expected later this year, could determine whether the civil rights movement’s signature achievement is still justified 50 years after its signing, or if the movement itself is finished.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/29...done.html?_r=1
So all you rightwingnutters TELL US AGAIN how y'all aren't RACISTS!
GOP officials sue Florida: Laws against gerrymandering are ‘thought policing’ our ‘partisan thoughts’
Two Republican officials have filed a lawsuit against the state of Florida
claiming that their First Amendment right to “partisan thought” was being violated by laws designed to prevent gerrymandering.
Pasco County Republican Party Chair Randy and Maggard Walton County Chair Tim Norris filed suit in the Pensacola division of the Northern District of Florida, just weeks before a special legislative session is set to redraw congressional districts in the state,Politico reported.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/gop-...e+Raw+Story%29
Texas Lawmakers Are Much Better At Disenfranchising Voters Than We Thought
A Texas law, which closely resembles similar laws erecting obstacles to the franchise in other states, does far more to keep voters from casting a ballot than previously thought, according to a study conducted by researchers at Rice University and the University of Houston.
Typically, analysts examining how voter ID laws affect turnout have honed in on voters who lack ID as the obvious victims of such a law. The Rice/Houston study, however, reveals that these laws reach far beyond the universe of people without IDs. “[T]he most significant impact of the Texas voter photo ID law on voter participation,” at least within the congressional district examined by the study, “was to discourage turnout among registered voters who did indeed possess an approved form of photo ID, but through some combination of misunderstanding, doubt or lack of knowledge, believed that they did not possess the necessary photo identification.”
The study surveyed 400 registered voters who did not cast a ballot in the November 2014 election. All of these non-voters reside in Texas’s 23rd Congressional District — a district the researchers describe as “the only one of the state’s 36 U.S. House districts where both the Democratic Party and Republican Party candidates have a realistic chance of victory in November.” In 2014, Republican Will Hurd narrowly defeated Democratic in bent Rep. Pete Gallego in the 23rd district.
Altogether, 12.8 percent of the non-voters surveyed in the study said that lack of identification was a reason why they did not vote in the 2014 election, and 5.8 percent said that this was the principal reason why they did not vote. Yet, despite the relatively high numbers of voters who cited lack of ID when asked why they did not cast a ballot, the researchers determined that only “2.7% of the respondents did not possess any of the seven valid forms of photo identification” and “only 1.0% did not possess a photo ID and agreed that a lack of this photo ID was a reason why they did not vote.”
At best, this suggests that more than half of the voters who did not cast a ballot because they believed they lacked the identification required to do so actually did have a valid form of ID.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...an-we-thought/
So beside the EXPLICIT TX Repug voter suppression, there is IMPLICIT voter suppression caused by FUD in voters with good voter IDs, but the FUD keeps them away.
Repugs, nasty, dirty ing sonsof es
Anti-Voting Crusader Plans Purge Of 30,000 Citizens From Voting Rolls
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) — notorious voter suppression architect who now wields the power to prosecute people for voter fraud — has proposed a change to state regulations which would allow his office to purge more than 30,000 incomplete voter registration applications being held because voters have not yet provided proof of citizenship.
Four state lawmakers, including one Republican, have come out against the proposal, claiming it would disproportionately impact low-income, minority and elderly voters who may need more than 90 days to provide their proof of citizenship. State Rep. Jim Ward (D) told ThinkProgress that not every Kansas citizen has a drivers’ license and other forms of identification can be hard for people to procure in a short period of time.
“[Kobach] said we gave more time than other states who have imposed this purge rule, and we thought it was fair,” Ward said. “But there really wasn’t any kind of analysis on how long it would take” voters to produce a proof of citizenship.
Soon after taking office, Kobach advocated for a law requiring new voters in Kansas to show proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register. The law took effect in 2013, and immediately 12,000 people were placed in limbo because they could not prove their citizenship, despite the fact that the threat of non-citizens casting a ballot of virtually non-existent.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/20...h-voter-purge/
Repugs just adore the Consritution, and Love America so damn much.
Federal lawsuit filed against Kansas Secretary of State for massive voter registration purge
The lawsuit was filed byformer Kansas gubernatorial candidate Paul Davis:
The state enacted a requirement that beginning in 2013, prospective voters must provide proof of citizenship, such as a passport or birth certificate, when they register to vote – a policy Kobach championed.Since the law went into effect, nearly 37,000 voters have been left in suspended registration status. For perspective, Davis lost to Gov. Sam Brownback in the last election by fewer than 33,000 votes. Davis said he didn’t think proof of citizenship affected the outcome of the election.
Kobach has moved forward with a new rule, set to take effect on Friday, that would remove a person’s name from the list if he or she failed to show proof of citizenship after 90 days. Kobach has said the policy will save county election offices money, but his critics accuse him of trying to purge the list.
More on the basis of the lawsuit:
Davis, along with attorney Will Lawrence, is representing Douglas County residents Alder Cromwell and Cody Keener in the lawsuit. In an interview, Davis said the two men were in their late teens and early 20s and seeking to register to vote for the first time.The lawsuit says the requirement that individuals provide proof of citizenship to register is “overly broad,” infringes on their rights to participate in elections and isn’t narrowly tailored to a compelling state interest.
The lawsuit also alleges the 90-day elimination rule violates the National Voter Registration Act. The lawsuit says the rule will unlawfully remove Cromwell from the statewide voter registration database even though Kansas is required to place him in the database as a valid voter under the federal law.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/1...e?detail=email
After Passing Voter ID Law, Alabama Closes Driver’s License Offices In Democratic Counties
However, Alabama has announced that it is now closing 31 driver’s license bureaus throughout the state, leaving 29 of the state’s counties without an office where voters can easily obtain a state-issued driver’s license. Not coincidentally, the impact of closures will be disproportionately felt by low income voters. Also unsurprisingly, offices targeted for closure are heavily concentrated in predominately African-American, Democratic leaning counties
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/01/passing-voter-id-law-alabama-closes-drivers-license-offices-democratic-counties.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=fee d&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Poli ticus+USA+%29
This was for budget cuts.
anyway, something needs to be done to offset all the illegals that will be voting for Demorats
proof that illegals are voting at all?
Even Hispanic Americans don't vote much (or TX would be BLUE)
That's an assumption.
send me your email address and I'll send you the files
Ah, the old massive vote fraud chestnut.
ah...a response from old chinnuts
You do know that the bush administration made prosecuting vote fraud a priority, right?
Do you remember how that went?
check the population of the regions in TX that are both BLUE and heavily Hispanic.
also, what Repug policies would cause TX Hispanics to vote TX Repug? closing (poor women's) health clinics? refusing to ACA-expand Medicaid? disenfranchisement of poor people needing voter ID? b0x-car-ring Ms of Hispanics southwards?
who cares. both choices were ty.
One tries to suppress legal voting.
wrong. Repugs SUCCEED in (Dem) voter suppression
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