Why does RNC general counsel John Ryder hate America?
The exclusion needs to be extended even more so now.
âThey are in it !â
The Trumpthumpers wonât listen to a fancy pants lawyer from the RNC. I would advise the GOP to anticipate extension of the court order.
As soon as the consent decree is lifted (if it is), Iâm willing to bet they go right back to their shameful ways, and itâll have to be reinstated.
If they had learned their lesson, they wouldnât try so hard to suppress minority votes, as they continue to do.
I just wonder when the Southern Poverty Law Center is finally going to get around to identifying the GOP as a hate group?
After this GOP campaign season, itâs a no-brainer.
âŚso we see the what Trump is doing to intimidate voters is just good old fashioned Republican behavior.
The GOP (Grab Our Pussies) is just reinstating this integral component of their election strategy a year early.
To bad they have been caught. The consent decree must be extended.
If voter fraud is rare, fraud these poll watchers might detect by watching people vote is astronomically rare.
Trump will point to this as âProof! Proof I Tell You!â that the RNC is part of the âVast Left-Wing Conspiracyâ against him.
I would have to say that their chances of getting the consent decree lifted are not very good.
Back during the 1989, 93 and 97 NYC mayoral races there were allegations that off duty police officers were acting as poll watchers for the Giuliani campaign. I donât think there were any altercations but they could have been a intimidating presence in some precincts.
Um, the GOPâs own nominee calling for Republicans to engage in precisely the kind of behavior prohibited by the consent decree is pretty powerful evidence that the party is sanctioning the behavior, no?
âThe letter comes as Trump has amped up his rhetoric about a ârigged electionâ and urged his supporters to go monitor the polls themselves.â
Trump tweet claiming the RNC is rigging the election against him in 3, 2, 1âŚ
(And you think Iâm joking?)
Too late, Mr. Ryder. Iâm pretty sure that when the Republican Partyâs Presidential nominee exhorts his rally-goers to âwatch the polls,â your consent decree has already been violated.
Election fraud is rare. Voter fraud is very rare. In-person voter fraud is practically non-existent. And, yes, the likelihood of a goon standing in the polling place legitimately detecting in-person voter fraud that the workers who are supposed to be there missed is astronomically rare to the point of not likely to happen even once in a million election cycles.
But of course that is not at all the point. The point is to intimidate voters, to slow down the vote in minority communities where the polls are already undersized, and to cast doubt on the election so that afterwards they can bully their way back into the national spotlight.
Perhaps the Donald is just confused. Thereâs nothing illegal about watching pole dancers, is there?
Voter intimidation works in concert with official voter suppression by republican officials. If you had enough polling places and enough poll workers in minority areas, then a bunch of yahoos challenging people wouldnât hold up the whole line and force people to take many, many hours to vote.
How come in 2008 when the Tea Party had True the Vote groups forming this warning didnât go out?
One of the few times youâre not.