I just got my mail in ballot for a chump city council election. But…now there’s a small block on the upper left, easy to miss, in which the voter must affirm he or she will not vote more than once in that election. I’m sure placing this unnecessary requirement was intended on bouncing ballots. It asks the voter to print not sign the spot. That gives election workers the leeway to fill it in if missed but the right candidate was voted for. No signature comparison.
It’s just getting started.
Fair and unfettered elections pose an existential threat to the GOP. They have nothing to lose no matter the outrage.
We should not fall for this bait and switch. We strongly support ECA reforms — but they are no substitute for addressing the larger election assault that is hitting every voter in every election. Indeed, ECA reform is meaningless without a fix for those more fundamental problems.
It’s “bipartisanship” for the sake of bipartisanship. Some things like voting rights simply cannot be compromised because voting should be a fucking right! Period!
Interesting that when it was was floated that the Vice President might have been able to overturn the results in 2020 the Republicans are suddenly interested in electoral reform. I wonder why that could be???
[“Everyone is still very focused on producing a bipartisan bill that can garner 60 or more votes in the Senate,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said on her way out of the meeting. “That is our goal.”]
IDK, but what infuriates me is that the rejected the Freedom to Vote and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act because states should be in control of elections. But states and Republicans in Congress keep messing with the how and where people can vote.
There is a fight in GA in a one rural county that has both white and black residents up in arms. They BOE wants to limit the rural county to just one polling place instead of the 6-7 polling places they have had.
So if this succeeds then has one resident pointed out that driving 10 minutes to her polling place would now mean driving 20-25 minutes to the one polling place. People work outside the county which means it could make it harder to make it to the polling place on time to vote.
And one of the things she didn’t mention is that by limiting the number polling places them they are also limiting the ability of citizens to help run their elections. To get them engaged in the voting process.
And I don’t understand why I seem to be the only one that keeps pointing out that as a nation we are very mobile society. People tend to move around, a lot, in comparison to our parents’ and grandparents
generations. Why shouldn’t we have a standardize standard for eligibility and process to register?
I know, I know when more people show up to vote Republicans lose, but Republicans shouldn’t be allowed to limit access to polls just so they don’t have to appeal to larger voter electorate.
The GOP is interested in “clarification” of the role of the VP only because there will be a Democrat in that position next presidential election. Wouldn’t it be karma if Harris declared, notwithstanding any actual votes, that Biden had won, based on the Trump theory?
The "bipartisan thing is just bullcrap, immo. Do they mean that everything that was in previous bills is now off the table, or just some particular things they don’t like, or are they just moving the goalposts all over the field to avoid the conclusion that republicans don’t want everyone to vote?
Republicans are trying to save face. Their actions show the quiet part out loud, so to speak. Can’t have folks think that they’re against voting. Got to keep that fig leaf intact.
It would be a mistake to take McConnell’s potential opposition to this measure as a given. In a sense, he and Trump are rivals for power in R circles, and have never been comfortable working in partnership. Trump’s desire for dictatorial power would nullify McConnell’s power.
McConnell comes out a winner in any decision to block a Trump reelection, especially if he doesn’t have to take any action to do so.
That is what Republicans want to do is allow state legislatures to follow the Republican Supreme Court road map for stealing elections and but pass federal legislation to prevent Kamala Harris from doing anything about it.
You have to be really stupid not to see what is happening.
Yay. Kamala Harris VP for life. Elections no longer needed. The will of the VP rules! … What do you mean that’s a bad idea? Trump is good to go with it and we all know how dutiful Trump is to the Constitution.
I’d guess they’re looking for, “We presented a bipartisany voting rights bill; but, the radical left wouldn’t support it. Apparently, they don’t want things all Americans can agree on.”
