Supreme Court strikes down voting oversight, and in months we’re back to poll tests.
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Maybe they could empty the waste bins or grab a mop to make themselves invisible.
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It didn’t. Primary election you choose a party and take the party’s ballot. Your voter reg card is stamped so you can vote in the same party’s runoff election (if you don’t vote in the first round, you can vote in either party’s runoff).
At the general election, everybody in the precinct gets the same ballot.
Vermont used a more civilized system when I lived there, but it necessitated plurality primary elections with no runoff. You got a ballot for each party, and put the one of your choice in the ballot box. The other went in the toss box. Nobody knew but you which primary you voted in.
Why do republicans hate democracy? Why do republicans want to discourage voting? Are they afraid of giving the people the right to vote? Do they want only white, male property owners to vote (like the “founding fathers” wanted?
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Remember those two New Black Panther Party dudes hanging around outside a polling station in Philly during the 2008 election? Maybe we can hire them to “quiz” voter hopefuls in majority white districts in Arkansas? Freedom of speech comes in many colors.
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Nothing changes if no one complains.
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This is the start of the fascist takeover of America when citizen turns against citizen, intimidating them, questioning their very “identity,” and denying or threatening to deny them the right of access to participate in free and fair elections.
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Why not start a new movement that advocates for mandatory voting, such as they have in Australia.
Right now, Australia might be the best country in the world to be living in. They have reasonable gun control and high minimum wage. Global recession? Almost unheard of.
You want democracy, make voting mandatory. Start a new, strong movement as a push back on voter restriction movements on the right and watch Republican heads explode.
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TPM: Justin Clay, the director of Arkansas’ Board of Election Commissioners, told TPM on Wednesday morning his agency had not yet received any complaints about the issue.
This is one of those instances where party affiliation might have been useful fact to include: Is Clay a Republican?
I presume Clay is a GOPer, since they pretty much control AR gov’t, but it would be nice to know instead of guess.
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Tim: Start a new, strong movement as a push back on voter restriction movements on the right and watch Republican heads explode.
A pity that’s not literal.
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Because they hate Americans.
That would have been in a primary…other states have this same rule. I tell them I’m independent and they ask whether I want a Republican or Democratic ballot.
When ideas fail, obstruction is the next step. Good thing the GOP is the “Patriotic” party, otherwise I might be worried.
Philly in the house here!
Nah! They’re actually not that intimidating. They open and hold the doors for voters going in. What’s the world coming to, I ask you?! Can’t imagine how that would go over down there.
“And with some people, you give 'em a little power, and they become bullies.”
Especially with older Tea Party like folk. I swear, you give them a little power, and they somehow acquire superpowers via the Constitution, curmudgeon-ness and self-righteous indignation in order to become an “American Patriotic Despot”, with the power to force all of his or her view on all others (who by definition are morally inferior to them) through the totally overblown might of whatever (likely) insignificant position with a smidgen of power they might have, be it sheriff, politician, bingo announcer, hall monitor, or poll worker!
I sometimes think that the voter id stuff is fueled by drivers who either do not believe non-drivers exist, or are very strange or if they exist and are normal should go through all the bother that drivers have to go through.
Some years ago, I had to get my New York State “walking” license. It required taking two half days off from work. That was a pain but not a terrible hardship for me. For many others it is impossible.
Great. Turn volunteer poll workers into identity theft experts. Soon they will be replaced by kevlar-wearing thugs from the Election Enforcement Agency, and you will be taken away if you cannot recall every detail on your driver’s license.
Soon after, it will be Papers, Please just to buy groceries.
This election mania needs to stop, especially when the GOP does not recognize election results.