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 ‘Voting Rights’
October 25th, 2024 - 8:14 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP rep wants North Carolina’s legislature to commandeer electoral votes
July 28th, 2024 - 4:04 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Should children vote?
Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH), Trump’s 2024 running mate for now, seems to think so. The premise of Vance’s now-infamous “childless cat ladies” jibe is that people without children shouldn’t run the country because they have no stake in its future. Like much else Vance believ[...]
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[...]
There are times you don’t negotiate and this is one of them
Wisconsin is a mini-Hungary, where a rightwing minority imposes its will on a more liberal majority. The state is heavily gerrymandered; in 2018, Republicans “won” two-thirds of the Assembly seats with 45% of the popular vote. The state supreme court is brazenly partisan, but conservativ[...]
September 22nd, 2022 - 1:48 am § in Politics, Republicans
GOP House nominee opposed women voting
John Gibbs (photo, left; bio here), a Stanford-educated software engineer and former Trump administration official who won a primary for a Michigan House seat by defeating an incumbent who voted to impeach Trump, “has a history of making false, inflammatory, and conspiratorial remarks on his [...]
August 26th, 2022 - 10:52 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Does a law’s provenance matter?
I never thought I’d defend a Jim Crow law, but here goes. In a ruling on Wednesday, August 24, 2022, the federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a section of Mississippi’s state constitution that bars people convicted of certain felonies from voting (read story here). The 5th Circuit han[...]
July 18th, 2022 - 7:18 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Drop boxes weren’t a problem
“The expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots during the 2020 election did not lead to any widespread problems,” KING 5 News reported on Monday, July 18, 2022 (see story here). Washington, which has 100% mail voting, uses drop boxes, but this report is based on a nationwide survey o[...]
May 18th, 2022 - 7:10 pm § in Politics
Colorado candidate wants to eliminate popular vote
Colorado’s governor is whoever wins the most votes. The same is true of Colorado’s other state offices. Greg Lopez, mayor of Parker, Colorado, doesn’t like that. He’s running for governor, and it means Denver (pop. 715,522) can outvote Parker (58,512). So Lopez, a Republican,[...]
February 26th, 2022 - 9:18 pm § in Politics
Texas democracy? No way!
Click here for the faces and stories of people who Texas Republicans don’t want voting — the blacks, the elderly, the sick and disabled, the young. To be honest, I can’t vote for a party or politicians who do that to their fellow citizens. How about you? And if a party has to preve[...]