@marcelias A racist anti-voter entity like today's "GOP" is an inadmissible anti-democratic, anti-constitutional criminal organization, the right place of which is definitely not on the ballots.
> Local Labs – which calls its work both political research and journalism – is demanding voters’ details across the country to back claims of election fraud
@BigAngBlack The enemies of American democracy have organized to disrupt & obstruct every chance of free & fair elections.
Terrorism is intolerable & unnegotiable.
“The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible, so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all that is left.”
— Abraham Lincoln —
The Supreme Court has denied Alabama’s Hail Mary pass after that state defied a three-panel judge order to draw a second majority Black opportunity district. AL tried to pick up a vote by getting Justice Kavanaugh to change his position after ruling for the plaintiffs. It was a no-go. Alabama will get new maps.
NC has provided the template for this strategy: keep appealing using bottomless pockets & you never have to actually change the maps. The elections aren't postponed to wait for fair maps, so the #racist#GOP wins again
They can't win a fair #Election but they have all the $$ they need to f with them every which way
If they STILL don't win, they cry foul
And this time, #Project2025 in place for coup 2.0
@marcelias - in my area of #swfl the election offices are changing #voters addresses and mail-in ballot opt-in. Important to check your registration status, especially if you are a #NPA
@marcelias Apparently there is no act of human kindness & compassion today's "Republicans" wouldn't punish to fraudulently suppress voters, who could make the "GOP" look as electorally small & irrelevant as they really are.
Codified electoral fraud is still, what it is: Fraud, violating the Constitution & human rights, Mr Raffensperger!
Amazing that the Texas House had the courage to call out the obvious impeachable offenses of Paxton; amazing, too, that it wasn't a foregone conclusion until the votes happened that Texas Senate Republicans were dedicated to the grift that is modern Republican politics—it seemed like they were taking it as seriously as their House colleagues. But, nope. They protect their own; they prefer crime. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09/16/us/ken-paxton-impeachment-texas
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“Trump won by 620,000 votes in Texas. Harris County mail-in ballots that they wanted to send out were 2.5 million. Those were all illegal and we were able to stop every one of them,” Paxton said on the podcast.
“Had we not done that … we would’ve been one of those battleground states that they were counting votes in Harris County for three days and Donald Trump would’ve lost the election,” Paxton continued.
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@marcelias If "Republicans" are scared of an independent, citizen-led redistricting commission, they're simply confessing to be the designated losers in every free & fair election.
And that they're just rigging elections to pretend not to be the losing minority — which they are.
Their continued, almost "traditional" electoral fraud by means of voter suppression, disenfranchisement & gerrymandering, all their racist conspiracy against voters' rights must have legal consequences. It's unacceptable.
Can there be "bipartisanship" with a party of serial, continued electoral fraud? Not at all!
Remember when Jacob Rees-Smug reflecting 'reforms' to UK voting identification actually hurt them and was a poor attempt at gerrymandering? He didn't know what gerrymandering was, but it was an attempt at voter suppression.
The Electoral Commission (who actually prevent real gerrymandering) have been damning in their assessment of the effects of voter ID 'enhancement'.
@marcelias 👏👏👏 Congratulations once again! The insurrectionary Confedereds evidently can't let go of running against the walls of the Reconstruction Amendments, their codified derivates & Marc Elias Group.
Wonderful!
@marcelias No lawsuit potentially disenfranchising up to 20 million voters can honestly be called "lawful".
While such monstrously fraudulent initiatives would fit any jail-worthy career fraudster & mobster perfectly.
@LouisIngenthron Only an electorate, vast parts of which are not disenfranchised or artificially split up in different districts so they're no longer a homogeneous/ coherent community but weakened, can be able to exert its responsibility to consequently vote out abusers of official power.
One example I prefer to quote is that of Texas's 1st congressional district, which was turned more urban & "Republican" after 2003 redistricting & as a result went to Louie Gohmert, the first "Republican" to represent the district since Reconstruction (~1877).
That's how redistricting abusively & undemocratically works to create fake majorities & illegitimate representatives, who responsible voters would surely like to vote out, but are prevented from by fraudulent redestricting.
Check out #DougFord's unconstitutional, electoral-rigging #Bill307 where he silenced all his critics while spending buckets of taxpayer dollars on television commercials endlessly praising himself.
In addition to endless polls - another very effective form of #VoterSuppression. Months & months of polls and media calling a Ford majority cemented the last provincial election.
@marcelias Sounds like the plan of an organized criminal network, which is inconceivably still allowed to participate in elections it is firmly resolved to rig systematically.
That shouldn't even be possible in bodies politic, where the law rules.
investigative report tells how morbidly rich families, their companies, & their personal foundations are funding efforts to limit/restrict democracy across U.S.
2021: spent >$5M lobbying to block federal voting rights legislation & advance ambitious plan to spread far-right agenda calling for aggressive voter suppression measures in battleground states
2021 tax filings f. Heritage Action for America (activist wing): spent $5.1M on lobbying