Conservatives have finally found a form of voter suppression they won’t stand for: warnings from Democrats that voting in person during the pandemic could be dangerous to one’s health.
Well, if anyone would know about voter suppression, it’s the GOP.
They’ve had decades of malpractice…
1300 dead from Covid-19 yesterday, 540 today and the day’s not over.
And things sure ain’t getting better in AZ
Fitton is a charlatan and conspiracy theorist. He has nothing of value to offer to any hearing.
That’s rich.
"It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham!"
Then the way to defeat the evil Democrats is to make sure all the vulnerable voters from the Republican side can vote at no cost through the US Postal Service. Brilliant! We should get massive bi-partisan support for that.
And the Democrats inspired the AntiFa who started the riots that scared the voters, so they could call out the National Guard and stop the election with bayonets and tear gas.
As other witnesses noted during the hearing, the shift toward absentee voting isn’t just about protecting the individual voter’s health. Poll workers tend to be the types of seniors who face the most serious risks in contracting COVID-19. Scores of polling places have been closed across the country due to staffing issues related to the outbreak. That, in turn, has compounded the need to keep in-person Election Day voting to a manageable level, through mail-in and early voting.
For me this is the single biggest argument for mail in voting. I have worked a polling place and know that most of the folks who man polling places are older and have health problems. They are the backbone of American civil society. They show up to make a little extra money but also to do their civic duty. They are the kind of people who often don’t recover if they catch Covid 19. I would be ashamed to put them at unnecessary risk if I was an elected official. Republican opponents should be ashamed.
Fitton, like the rest of them, is a kkklown. His role is to bring the lawsuits that the Federalist Society wants brought so that Federalist Society judges can rule the way they’ve planned it for decades.
Bunker down. Be Safe!
Thanks. We’re personally operating as if there’s still “shelter in place.”
“If you want to be sure your vote is counted, the best way to do it is to show up in person.”
That’s because lawsuits are going to fly after the election to challenge mail in votes and some of those suits will win.
You just as well be ready for hundreds of lawsuits post election and few results will be known for weeks. Some never.
OT.
Rod Rosenstein contradicts Trump’s line on the Russia probe: “I’m fairly confident that political bias did not enter into that investigation.”
He’s a duplicitous little shitdaisy, but Rosenstein occasionally lays a truth bomb.
Judicial Watch is a Fascist Organization.
They grew out of the ashes of the John Birch Society, and adhere to the JBS tenets of: White, Male, Protestant, Conservative Governance, by and for the exclusive welfare of Corporations.
“To hear inflammatory rhetoric that you’re choosing your life over your vote, it’s just not appropriate,” Fitton said. “And it causes people to be nervous about voting. That is as suppressive as anything I’ve heard, telling people they’re going to die or likely to die if they vote.”
Shit-for-brains Fitton, I am voting absentee in Wisconsin. I saw, and I know many here have read reports of, extremely long lines in Wisconsin during the pandemic while Wisconsin voters were forced to vote at a dramatically reduce quantity of polling locations. I’m old enough and my medical history is such that contracting COVID-19 would very likely kill me. We’ve seen a significant uptick in infection rates in Wisconsin subsequent to that April vote.
The quantity of polling locations was dramatically reduced because election volunteers, who are typically quite old retired people, correctly feared for their lives and would not service the polls. It was the Democrats who attempted to increase the availability of absentee ballots and prolong the date of acceptance for those absentee ballots, and it was the Republicans that argued against that, thereby forcing people to choose between their health and their right to vote.
The GOP are lying hypocrites. You can thank them and Trumplethinskin for all the death and disease.
108,000 Americans are dead from Covid in a little over two months. That’s what’s scaring people. Rightfully so.
, which, actually…aw, crap, y’know, maybe I’m just not very good at this whole vote suppression thing. Guess it’ll just have to be 1 person, 1 vote, equal access, and let the majority decide.
These people are all over the place. I guess they think if they throw enough mud against a wall something will stick.
The GOP is like a living textbook of logical fallacies. When I was teaching, my colleagues and I used to send each other links of things like this with the notation that this was yet another thing we couldn’t use as an example of fallacious thinking.
