A good long NYT on Republican claims of voter fraud starting with the Brooks Brothers Riots and ending with some very bad scenarios for the 2020 election
The Attack on Voting in the 2020 Elections The Attack on Voting in the 2020 Elections - The New York Times
So I got my absentee ballot. One side is real quick. Other side…
Good god if people are supposed to read this at the polls (yeah a good voter would have read this ahead of time, but that is the minority)
And basically amendment 1, weakening innocent before guilty. Amendment 2 strengthening KY attorneys, which are largely GOP. But let’s word salad the shit out of it.
In a just world, the attorneys who brought this suit would face sanctions and/or risk losing their licenses.
Where’s Joe’s “army of attorneys” I was told he had to suss out this crap?
FWIW 12% of Guilford mail ballots were rejected in 2016. Vote by mail was also disproportionately white vs. the county population.
Obviously, 2020 is very different circumstances from 2016, but it was interesting to look back.
Looks a lot less damning with this document. I’m a lot less worried about the stuff in this thread than I was a couple of weeks ago honestly. I don’t think they can steal anywhere near enough votes using stuff like this.
I can tell you that Austinites (brought up without prompting in a discord chat for a D&D game I recently quit to join ours) are more than a little unhappy with our governor about the locations being restricted… and if there’s anything I know about anger it’s that it’s motivating. They’re going to have to do better than this to actually suppress motivated voters.
I really don’t think the GOP even comprehends how motivated the anti trump vote is. I would crawl 50m over an open landfill to vote against this guy and I don’t think that makes me some kind of outlier.
Just to be really clear they can try to suppress Travis Counties vote… but 96% of the counties population is registered to vote. What usually happens in you guys experience when you try to do something unfair to overprivileged people? Yes, that’s right, the vast vast majority of the population of Travis County is more than just privileged. Trying to suppress these people is probably a pretty big mistake, as your best shot of getting a win on their vote was to demotivate them. Instead you might piss them off and they might do something about it, since that’s actually on the menu for them. The typical Travis County resident has one or more cars and several hundred dollars a week in disposable income.
A lot of us don’t have to try very hard to put ourselves in these people’s shoes because we are these people. Upper middle class white lefties. It’s not all that rare anymore.
Just in case anyone is counting on Gorsuch to save us
LA County does a good job of at least seeming to have a pretty good handle on this stuff. Online system where I can track when I should receive my ballot, and it will show it in the system and eventually accepted when I mail it back.
Also, have Thomas and/or Alito ever been on the right side of any vote in history? My god.
Alito, no. Thomas once.
I thought they were usually on the right.
heyoooooooooo!
War on voting takes a loss!
Yeah…Texas is more than just “lean right.”
