Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD; photo, left), who chairs the rightwing House Freedom Caucus, suggested 12 days before the election “that legislators in the battleground state of North Carolina could allocate their state’s electoral votes to Trump before votes are counted” (read story here). The b[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Voter Suppression’
October 25th, 2024 - 8:14 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP rep wants North Carolina’s legislature to commandeer electoral votes
September 25th, 2024 - 1:41 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Wisconsin mayor drags his city into ballot drop box wars
Wisconsin was a pivotal state in the 2020 election, and could be again in 2024. Absentee voting is optional in that state, at the voter’s choice with no reason required. For military personnel, travelers, persons working away from home (e.g., truck drivers and airline crews), the elderly and d[...]
September 21st, 2024 - 12:28 am § in Politics, Republicans
Republicans don’t like elections
They’re suing to purge voter rolls. CNN reports, “As of Tuesday, at least three dozen cases related to voter rolls … are pending in 19 states” (read story here). A voting rights lawyer called it an “assault” on voter registrations and voter lists. CNN added, “Questioning the accurac[...]
July 10th, 2024 - 6:49 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Do illegals vote?
No, illegals don’t vote, except in tiny numbers. Few things about U.S. elections are more true than this statement: Non-citizens can’t and don’t vote in federal and state elections. Voting by illegals is extremely rare and never affects election results. We’re talking about s[...]
GOP candidate floats 25 voting age
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (photo, left) “wants to raise the voting age to 25 or require ‘civic duty’ stipulations for younger voters,” Mediaite reported on May 11, 2023 (read story here). By that he means people between 18-25 either have to serve in the milit[...]
Giuliani has a fit of honesty (sic)
Hizzoner admitted using a “dirty trick” to win the 1993 New York mayoralty election by suppressing the Hispanic vote. “So they went through East Harlem, which is all Hispanic, and they gave out little cards, and the card said, ‘If you come to vote, make sure you have your green card [...]
April 22nd, 2023 - 8:27 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP lawyer labels student voters a “scourge”
If you’re a college student, and you vote, Cleta Mitchell likens you to a pestilence, to wit: “Scourge: noun: … a cause of wide or great affliction” Mitchell, a prominent Republican lawyer neck-deep in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election (details here), is off[...]
Republicans can’t escape their unpopular policies
It’s hard for ordinary people like me to fathom why anybody would want to be president, but a number of Republican politicians do, and they all have a problem. Most Americans hate their positions on abortion and guns. On top of that, the GOP has long been a party for the rich, and often indiff[...]
Why do Republicans think crazy is a winning election strategy?
Probably because they’ve been around their own voters too long, and need to get out of the barn more. After 3 teachers and 3 kids were murdered by an AK47-wielding woman at a Nashville Christian school on Monday, March 27, 2023 (see story here), a survivor of the July 4, 2022, Highland Park pa[...]
DeSantis is pulling guns on black voters
Add Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to be president, to the list of armed Republicans brandishing guns at polling places. In 2018, Florida voters approved a state constitutional amendment that restored voting rights to felons who’ve completed their sentences, except those convicted of mur[...]