Government run by and for the minority of eligible voters is precisely what they want.
“David Birdsell, dean of the school of public and international affairs at Baruch College, notes that by 2040, about 70% of Americans are expected to live in the 15 largest states,” Seib wrote. “They will have only 30 senators representing them, while the remaining 30% of Americans will have 70 senators representing them.”
OT, but as long as we’re talking voter suppression–
Various Wisconsin media outlets are reporting that Reince “I-Never-Met-A-Voter-Suppression-Scheme-I-Didn’t-Like” Priebus is considering a run for WI Guv.
Iowa is a lost cause. Not sure how that happened, but here we are. Same with Missouri to its south. Everyone can vote in those states and we would still get Joni Ernst and Josh Hawley. Focus more on capturing Texas and it will equal both of them combined and then some.
It’s way past time.
Congress can, and should, mandate certain parameters for federal elections, including automatic voter registration.
Also:
A minimum of 30 days of early voting.
No-excuse vote-by-mail.
Easy access to voting sites.
No purges of voter rolls within 12 months of a primary or an election.
Extended hours at voting sites.
Paper ballots or machines with paper ballot back-up.
No political party “observers” within 500 feet of a voting site.
And I’m sure I’ve left out a lot of good ideas.
When Democrats are finally able to pass a law updating the Voting Rights Act’s coverage formula, they can use these efforts to help identify all the states/counties/cities that need to go under preclearance. This is the type of voter suppression that the VRA was designed to stop before the SCOTUS shamefully gutted it back in 2013.
OK, why not just make a law that every vote cast is for a GOPer? Why be forced to choose?
Who needs elections any way… I mean lookit what happened the last time … armed violent mobs of N00bs attacking the Capitol!!
Huh. Good luck with that. Ol’ Reince strikes me as the quintessential back-room guy. Some folks have a face made for radio and some politicos have a public demeanor made for being behind the scenes.
The solution is for Dems. to get off their arses and prioritize passing a stiff voting rights act (with penalties and jail time for interference) before we get Ted Kennedeyed again and lose control of the Senate. That’s the solution. But, Dems. have never been known for good strategy or long memories.
Miscellany: Gourmand? Or just excessive?
Good god! Forget about well done. That’s more red meat at one sitting than I eat in a couple of years.
Every state/county/city should have to go through pre-clearance.
Which would also put the kibosh on John Roberts and his egregious and intentional misreading of the VRA when he voted to gut it.
The memory of the average voter irrespective of party is about half an hour…
Nope. We need a fifty-state strategy. Georgia was a lost cause until it wasn’t.
If the Republican Party is going to split, or at least nominate more candidates like Boebert and Greene, we need to be damn sure that there’s a democratic candidate running in every election to reap the benefits.
I’m actually a Robert Jones so I proudly consider myself the anti John Roberts.
I wouldn’t go that far. Otherwise, future Republican Presidents could use it to prevent blue states/counties/cities from updating their election laws to make it easier to vote.
But the Republicans have their own Lucy/football syndrome preventing the lesson –
This time, deregulation is gonna work!
This time, it’s gonna trickle down!
This time, the magic hand of the free market will caress us in the small hours!
We cannot do anything about this about short of amending the Constitution, which will not happen. Can we please get on the DC and Puerto Rico statehood train?
Use sign language. 
True, but I was hoping for a bit more from our elected representatives.
Time for Republicans to live in REAL fear of the rest of us and for the rest of us to stop letting them bring it to us. Bring it to them, unrelentingly and without surcease. We are at the point where democracy WILL die with a whimper if they are allowed to have their way muzzling its voice while good men do nothing.
NMNQ
