Run for office- the 2018 elections are 10 months away! And if Trump and Louie Gohmert and Steve King can get elected what’s to stop a qualified candidate?
Become a Precinct Committee Officer, sometimes it’s a Ward officer. You’ll meet with neighborhood Dems and get out the vote. Find good citizens willing to run for office.
Register people to vote. If you need to help people overcome the GOP-led Voter run-around help them do that.
Run for School Board. Make sure Civics is being properly taught. Think a majority of America knows how government works? Just 26% of eligible voters in America voted for Trump and half of eligible voters stayed home last November. Today’s 12-year olds will be voting for President in 8 years.
Run for Mayor, City Council, County Commissioner, Borough Assembly.
Get appointed to your Planning Commission. Know everything going on in your community.
Run for State Legislature or Congress. The next census is in 2020, just over 2 years from now, when we redraw Congressional Districts.
And get rid of GERRYMANDERING! Safe GOP seats gave us such intellectual giants as Louie Gohmert and Steve King. In most cases it’s the state Legislature that draws Congressional boundaries. Make it FAIR, OPEN and HONEST! We can do this!
Overturn Citizens United. Money is NOT speech and Corporations are NOT people- at least not until Texas executes one, and overturn any voter ID laws that are clearly an attempt to disenfranchise the poor and people of color.
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“Those who would purposely mislead or seek to confuse others are bad people. Worse, they are evil.”
-Kathleen Parker
You Got To Run!
I would really, really, REALLY like the RNC or the Kentucky Republican Party to DARE to pull this shit at my precinct, where I have been voting in every single election for 17 years and where I carry paper copies of the SoS rules for voting and have the ACLU of Kentucky on speed dial. In 2008, a repug poll worker there tried to stop an African-American woman in line in front of me from voting because she had a completely legal Obama shirt on (as did I), and I jumped on that poll worker so fast she just yelled “OK, OK, fine!” I bet the slimy assholes at the county repug meeting told her “the blacks” would slink away at any challenge.
Why the Spicer photo? What am I missing?
This is an important issue and needs to be fought furiously.
We need to record and publish the NAMES and IDENTITIES with all publicly identifiable information about the Republican poll watchers. We need names, addresses, phone numbers, workplace, photos and any background information on their crimes and activities.
They need to be followed and watched. They want to stalk polls? Let’s follow their asses and track their activities. Seems fair. Maybe send some Christmas cards to their kids… (the old Microsoft tactic).
The judge was nominated by Obama, no less. Interesting ruling, let’s allow the GOP thugs to try to prevent someone from voting, and then have them arrested/prosecuted. Don’t be intimidated by gangsters, it’s what they count on.
However, Democrats’ last ditch effort last year to extend it — citing Trump’s calls for vigilante poll watching, as well as then-RNC strategist Sean Spicer’s presence in an area of Trump Tower where campaign poll watching activities were being monitored — were unsuccessful.
That bit.
Somehow, that doesn’t seem to warrant a lead photograph, although, actually, it is a funny photo…racing down the stairs with a bag of ballots, no doubt. :]
Nice to see Democratic appointed judges ruling in ways that won’t raise questions about their impartiality.
“Today’s ruling will allow the RNC to work more closely with state parties and campaigns to do what we do best, ensure that more people vote through our unmatched field program,” she said.
Does this not read that the RNC has received a judges order to insert itself within the role of a government agency to ensure equal access to voting? Is the RNC now trying to claim that it’s poll watching activities are a part of government business every election day? Does this ruling give the RNC standing as a government agency, free from the normal oversight to which every other government agency is subject? Does the RNC have a track record of actively working to reduce equal access to the polls among only certain demographic groups otherwise specifically protected under the Voting Rights Act? Under what pretense is the RNC now able to do what no other private entity in this nation is allowed?
Are you freakin’ KIDDING me??? These jerkwads should have their citizenship taken away. Americans, my azz.
I am just not sure why they would want people there just watching. How do you tell anything. What authority do they have other than to report something. And given the state of the party it is more likely that some guy reports a ton of stuff that goes nowhere but just causes more problems than anything else.
Just do not see why there would be any interest in doing this sort of thing. No real good comes of it. The GOP often said the Dems had solutions in search of a problem but this voter fraud stuff is the prime example of that phrase.
the DNC had failed to provide evidence of a violation that would prompt him to extend it.
Why am I not surprised.
Let’s see - with zero evidence of fraud, the Rs get to run a commission looking for it and take a case to the Supreme Court.
With zero evidence of fraud, the Ds lose their attempt to keep the Rs from harassing voters at the polls.
Riiiiight.
Sadly, we cannot blame Steve King on gerrymandering. It doesn’t exist in Iowa:
Remember that this case is limited to the RNC and the Republican party of New Jersey…if both kept clean then the judge had to lift the order. I wouldn’t be surprised if the RNC was involved in coordinating the voter ID push and other efforts to restrict voting among Democrats, but there had to be evidence that could be pointed to, and without that there was nothing to be done.
Now, people have to be vigilant and watch the Republicans closely…they have shown they are completely willing to block access before an election, now we’ll see if they try to block access openly during an election once again. Democrats should be ready with observers at all precincts where Republicans may try to interfere, and make sure that poll workers are properly trained and know the laws so they can’t participate in any interference.
Honestly, voting rights needs to become a national priority, all the moves by the Republicans should make every American furious and should all be stopped. Every American should be able to vote without interference in any election they are eligible to participate.
Let the real voter fraud begin!
I was going to say.
The anti ballot control people will be out in force.
“Not today Motherfucker”
Just try it