A SWAT team for ”voter fraud”.
I can’t even.
I’m not sure I understand all the details here but this seems pretty fishy:
- judge says the Arizonans for Free and Fair Elections initiative can go on the November ballot
- supreme court says “hey can you check those signature numbers again?”
- judge reverses himself, says well actually gee whiz there’s not enough signatures
- supreme court upholds new ruling, the end.
The Free and Fair Elections measure sought to change a slew of election laws. It would have specifically blocked the Legislature from overturning the results of presidential elections, an avenue some Republicans explored after former President Donald Trump’s loss in the state in 2020.
It also would have guaranteed ballot privacy and bars handing election materials or ballots over to outside groups like the state Senate did after 2020, expanded voting access, mandated that all voters can go to any polling site, extended early voting and limited lobbyists’ ability to wine and dine lawmakers.
In the end, just enough signatures were rejected:
Superior Court Judge Joseph Mikitish rejected thousands of signatures and said the initiative fell 1,458 signatures short of the 238,000 required to qualify for the ballot.
What a coincidence.
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Looks like the new election enforcement bureau that DeSantis created is picking up steam
https://twitter.com/TB_Times/status/1582395896615956480?t=4OxYJkQfqApM8e7scT_gyQ&s=19
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Jennifer Jones, a Morehouse School of Medicine PhD student, showed up to her precinct in Fulton county, Georgia, on the second day of early voting for the midterm elections…
However, when she reached the check-in station at the polling site, she was informed that she would be unable to cast a regular ballot because her validity as a voter was challenged…
“When I handed in my ID, the poll worker said I was
being challenged,” said Jones. “They said I had to complete a provisional ballot, but I wasn’t really comfortable doing that, so I didn’t get to cast my ballot that day”…
Under the state’s new Election Integrity Act, Georgia citizens can challenge a voter’s eligibility on the state’s voting rolls an unlimited number of times. Right-wing groups, spurred by baseless claims that the 2020 election was rife with voter fraud, have mounted thousands of organized challenges across the state…
In most cases, voters like Jones don’t know why their status is being challenqed in the first place, causing even more confusion.
Cool cool. I see no issue with this ability for anybody to block people from voting.
Smart move by the GOP, Georgia is probably perma-red if they use that power well. The smart thing is Democrats will never fight back in kind. So they get a massive freeroll off it and they’re going to have significant equity.
GJGE Dems, keep protecting those corporate overlords, I’m sure the fascists won’t fuck with them. Just ask Disney how that’s going!
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On the bright side we might get to see some riveting debates on the Senate floor between Walker and DiFi on the topics “Who am I?”, “Where am I?” and “What day is it?”
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So can I go to, say, MTG’s district and just challenge everyone who I think is a Republican voter (so everybody)?
Rats. I was hoping I could stand at the polling place like this:
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I’m sure the people responsible for investigating these challenges are super-pumped about this new system too.
But maybe it will backfire because if anybody challenged my right to vote I would become enraged and my voting enthusiasm/motivation would quadruple instantly.
https://twitter.com/srl/status/1585651369435856901?s=20&t=zVUASfmsv4p6KPt7TLAGgQ
https://twitter.com/RileySnyder/status/1585823052591288321?s=20&t=zVUASfmsv4p6KPt7TLAGgQ
The supervisor’s name is M. Kampf?
Simulation.
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He started counting a stack of ballots and one of the volunteers snatched it from him, yelling “thats mine, Kampf!”
Half the room saluted.
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Just to keep the simulation going, middle name starts with K, right?
I don’t know, but she looks like this:
Kristina Bigsby
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