âAcross the country, voters are seeing their rights slip through their fingers,â said Hagan.
She couldnât be more right.
And therefore:
âvoters marked inactiveâ is going to be the big move while the GOP holds on to whatever state legislatures it can. Maybe we should push for legislation that no voter can be removed from the rolls without them asking, in person, to be removed or theyâve died.
Is part of the problem here that âinactiveâ voters are, in fact, inactive voters?
Not saying that choosing not to vote should get you bumped from the voter rolls, but choosing not to vote only increases the chances of getting bumped, and gets us to the sorry state were in now.
GOTV
if an interstate database flagged them
Courtesy of the Kris Kobach Kompany.
Haganâs campaign said more than 55,000 voters in the 3rd Congressional District have been disqualified or labeled inactive since February 2017, according to numbers they obtained.
âInactiveâ constitutional rights. Use it, or lose it. If you donât use it, you donât want it. If youâve never used it, youâve probably never had it. Therefore, you donât deserve it. Therefore, youâre an illegal alien and are the scourge of America. Go away!
Thatâs the Republican way.
This is the issue Democrats need to exploit to their advantage. The GOP is giving the Dems ânew votersâ support on a silver platter with this. Potential new voters that poll after poll shows supports liberal ideals and that the Dems desperately need. The Dems should make reforming our electoral system and expanding and securing peoples voting rights the number one thing they shout about for the next few elections. Not many things can galvanize âpopulist supportâ more than fighting systematic disenfranchisement of the populist in the first place. There is real anger in the electorate with how our democracy works, and whose votes get to count. Make the republicans run âagainst democracyâ!
Itâs all right there for the Dems to take. The only question is will they once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with their typical weak-willed effort?
âWe are following the law,â Merrill said.
The Letter of the Law for Thee and Thine; the Spirit of the Law for Me and Mine.
And so goes the nation.
Thanks for nothing John Roberts, Thief Justice of the not-Supreme Court for being a racist POS, just like your mentor Wm. Rehnquist. Your 2013 action killing federal enforcement of the Voting Rights Act was a reprehensible piece of anti-democratic oligarchism.
And of course most people that watch Fox News think that undocumented immigrants and non-citizens can vote and thatâs why Democrats want to help them.
the state was not giving voters required notice before removing them if an interstate database flagged them as being registered in another state.
Which has been shown to be riddled with mistakes.
Must suck to have one of these most common last names in the US.
Smith.
Johnson.
Williams.
Jones.
Brown.
Davis.
Miller.
Wilson.
In California I think that voters are not removed from voter lists until they have not voted in the last 3 elections.
Only cheating republicans win.
And no Russians required. What a wasted opportunity! As predicted, while Democrats were wailing on incessantly about Russians and Putin and puppets the GOP was stealing the 2018 election unchecked, and right from under our nosesâŚ
This is my district. Hagan would be a huge upset if she were to win, but at least she is out there. Iâm seeing Hagan signs and Hagan canvassers like Iâve never seen from a Democratic candidate before in the 26 years Iâve lived in this district. Sheâs smart and deserves to get more of the vote than 38%.
FYI, this district encompasses Auburn University as well as a few counties devastated by the exit of the textile industry years ago, as well as losing a large Army base near Anniston. Then there are the more rural counties which are mostly white and filled with people with low levels of education. My county still elects Democrats to local offices and tends to vote slightly blue for federal races but weâre outnumbered by the rest of the district. Weâre just above Martha Robyâs district.
You start out all hopeful and positive, Dems being handed new voters by crooked Rs, then you segue into âtheir typical weak-willed effortâ with no understanding evidently that a minority party on the state or Federal level can exercise very little influence on crooked Rs.
And your Senator Jones says what about this?
Iâve never thought about when voters might be removed from lists (Iâm from CA as you probably know), but it seems to me a voter who doesnât vote in three elections which could span at least six years probably is so uninformed they shouldnât vote and could only do some harm, e.g. voting for an incumbent based on name recognition alone.
Oh FOX most defiantly will. The Dems have a huge media problem they are either unwilling or unable to solve too.
If you noticed I pointed out the Dems actually have to âdo thingsâ to get those new voters, and that I donât think they will actually do those things, nothing I said has anything to do with how much âpowerâ they have as a minority party (shouting to the electorate to rally up votes has nothing to do with being in the minority).
I swear sometimes I think some of yaâll power users around here are really GOP plants. You continually make excuses for inaptitude and failure of Dem leadership and push a narrative that all Dems have to do is really really âhopeâ for voters to give them a majority. Just stay positive rather than take proactive steps to make sure that happens. Because apparently Dems canât even change their messaging, campaign on different issues, make grand gestures to rally the non-voters or energize them if they donât already have a supper majority.