The Irony: LA Legislature Votes By Mail To Approve Plan Limiting Vote-By-Mail

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This piece is part of our weekly Prime series on voting rights, but it has been moved outside of the paywall while we cover COVID-19.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1306905
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IMO it’s not irony when GOPers from the president on down have been saying the will never win an election again if vote by mail is approved. Legislating is different, those people were already elected and therefore deserve protection, ALSO… what does it matter today, there’s really no need to vote anymore. Is it a GOP issue, GOP is for.

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So I wonder whether clinics are going to be able to advise people to shelter, or if absentee ballots will require a specific, paid-for order from a sole-practitioner MD.

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Violates HIPAA to force people to reveal medical information about themselves, should challenge it on that bit alone.

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Republicans hate the franchise

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True, but wouldn’t they just throw out the exception altogether and leave it MORE restrictive?

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Maybe. But still worth the challenge, because if they can’t differentiate between a younger high-risk person and a non-high-risk (age is different), then they might get forced to offer it to everyone.

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for anyone except Pale People.

FIFY.

I am surprise they didn’t try to restrict the franchise back to “White, Male Property Owners” like the good old days before Federal interference.

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Not the way our luck has been running. :wink:

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That’s not irony. That’s hypocrisy.

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Irony? Try Hypocrisy.

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give it time…

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** NEWS FLASH **

Louisiana has been declared cognitive-dissonance free!

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Holding the top spot on ballots has earned Florida Republicans up to an extra five point boost, one expert in the case testified.

This is a terrifying indictment of the stupidity of voters.

Not really, they’d prefer if nobody voted. It’s more a sliding scale of how intensely they’re opposed to a particular group voting.

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trump also voted absentee in Florida by mail- then claimed mail-in ballots were rife with fraud.

The thing about dumb bastards is, they don’t know there’s such a thing as ‘smart’.

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And are willing to let people die who exercise it.

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Bless their hearts…consistency has NEVER been their strong suit.

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Meanwhile, today I pulled out of my mailbox what at first looked like the usual sample ballot for the upcoming Maryland Primary election.

It wasn’t.

Without having to make a special request, I was automatically sent a vote-by-mail ballot.

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The only franchises the Anti-Democratic Party will accept all serve fast food.