If the Arizona GOP’s 2020 election “audit” was a sham, the Wisconsin GOP’s sham “audit” is a three-ring circus. Its star performer is Michael Gableman (bio here), a GOP political operative who served a single tumultuous term on Wisconsin’s supreme court. Gab[...]
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June 15th, 2022 - 11:06 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
If GOP’s Arizona “audit” was a sham, its Wisconsin “audit” is a circus
The Hunter Biden laptop trail
The purported Hunter Biden laptop, and at least some of the salacious material on it, apparently are authentic, Mother Jones says (in a story here). But the Chinese connection alleged by Trump backers is fake. “The effort to publicize compromising emails, images, and videos from the device in[...]
What a GOP governor will do to Pennsylvania elections
Doug Mastriano, who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Trump rally (but not the Capitol riot following the rally) and is a persistent election denier, won the GOP nomination for Pennsylvania governor on Tuesday. Here’s what a commenter on HorsesAss.org predicted he’ll do if elected in Nov[...]
April 18th, 2022 - 2:25 pm § in Politics
How do you define a “fair election”?
Rioting, phoned death threats to election workers, and sham audits didn’t work, so now they want to run elections themselves. And they have their own ideas about what a “fair election” is. For example, in Ohio, former GOP legislator John Adams is running for secretary of state, the[...]
How Republicans plan to seize power
“Republicans” used to describe adherents of one of America’s two major political parties; but more recently, the term has come to denote a broad cultural movement with specific aims, characteristics, and implications — with quite a few tribal traits. For that reason, some peo[...]
Voting rights take center stage
President Biden is making a renewed push to get voting rights through Congress to protect the right of Americans to choose their leaders. But GOP obduracy and the Senate filibuster stand in the way. Biden finally endorsed changing the rule in a much-anticipated Georgia speech on Tuesday, January 11,[...]
October 30th, 2021 - 7:20 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
University of Florida orders profs not to testify in voting rights case
The university’s explanation is they “were not authorized” to serve as witnesses and their testimony would “pose a conflict of interest to the executive branch of the State of Florida” and “create a conflict for the University of Florida.” Read story here. [...]
GOP terrorism in Texas
Texas, like other states, has complicated voting laws. Too complicated for ordinary people to understand. But that’s no excuse. If you vote — or even attempt to vote — in Texas by mistake, you can go to prison for years. But only if you’re black. First there was the case of C[...]
Polls: Biden’s flying high — for now
Joe Biden is a popular president. Most polls show his approval rating in mid- to high-50s. RealClearPolitics is a good source for up-to-date poll results, which you can find here. And now, “The percentage of Americans who said the country is generally headed in the right direction has nearly d[...]
Georgia’s GOP governor to voters: “Order Uber Eats”
“Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Tuesday voters waiting in line in Georgia could order food from Grubhub or UberEats after a new state law criminalized offers of free food and water near polling stations,” Huffington Post reported on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. “They can order a pizza. They[...]