Judging from the idiotic behavior of about half the country, you could never recognize this fact. In a democratic republic the most precious possession of every citizen is their right to vote. When someone interferes with your right to have your vote counted, you do not live in a democratic republic. You live in a Republican Reich. Republicans are doing everything inhumanly possible to steal votes.
[M]aybe it was inevitable. Since John Roberts and the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, essentially on the basis that racism was over, the Republican Party has established itself as a political organization dedicated to preventing Certain People from voting—or having their vote counted. Republicans cooked up the idea the United States has a widespread problem of voter fraud—there is exactly zero evidence this problem exists—and responded to this fantastical issue by instituting voter-ID laws, signature-match policies, address requirements, and curtailing early-voting periods, among others. All these policies disproportionately affected poorer people and people of color, whom Republicans don’t want voting because they tend to vote for Democrats.
Combined with gerrymandering, which in one case was ruled by a federal court to have targeted black voters with "surgical precision," the Republican Party’s strategy was clear. But now that the midterm elections still didn’t go their way—already, it looks like the Democrats seized control of the House of Representatives in the biggest landslide since Watergate—they’ve stepped it up a level. Republicans are no longer just dedicated to making it harder to vote, and making certain votes count less based on how they draw district lines. They’re now against counting all the votes, period… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <Esquire>
Click through for a wealth of detailed information on Republican efforts to steal votes in several locations.
If Florida, vote count suppression is so bad that a Democratic Senator sued to extend the recount, because Republicans stole HIS vote.
Will we have a democratic republic or a Republican Reich?
RESIST!!
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In Georgia, it got so bad that Brian Kemp’s signature was questioned at the polling place. Of course, that didn’t hold (don’t you wish it had?), but seriously.
The governor’s race in Georgia is still up in the air, but a couple judicial rulings and the discovery of over 30,000 uncounted votes give hope that Abrams will pull off a win.
It’ll take time for the re-counts, but hopefully…..the DEMS will win!!!!
The sad thing is that of today’s SCOTUS, five of them would view that as a feature – not a bug.
Made worse by Twitler blathering away any and all Conspiracy Theories he hears on Faux “news” or Breitbart or InfoWars or w/e right-wing source he listens to.
The fact that we did record that Clinton got 3 million more votes than Trump makes me wonder how bad voter suppression is. It seems the way votes are counted (gerrymandering) is what has caused Democrat loses. Any estimates on how many voters have lost, or had their votes suppressed, or not counted?
Hundreds of thousands.
These repugs may think that they are getting away with this ballot counting crap, but it;s been turning around and kicking them tight back in the butt, and the Democrats have been winning.
So hang in there, Freya, Stacey still has a major chance at winning.
Trumphy is saying, I saw on CNN, that voters are using disguises to vote a second time. This is lunatic drivel.Tuck Carlson wants to know what’s so wrong about Nationalism, also lunatic drivel.
You didn’t do a disguise to vote twice? I did – and it worked perfectly. Fools ’em every time.
Two words – Whoopi Goldberg.
It’s all too sad really. These are images and reports from a country that thumped itself on the chest for “bringing democracy”, to the Middle East. That didn’t work out as planned, but that’s hardly surprising, is it?
Thanks all. Hectic Hugs!