All Votes Matter

[Elvado]

Those involved should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[TC]

Feb 18, 2019 15:08:24 GMT -5 Elvado said:

Those involved should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Pretty much the Republican position : throw the underlings under the bus and seat the cheater.

[Elvado]

Feb 18, 2019 15:39:18 GMT -5 TC said:

Feb 18, 2019 15:08:24 GMT -5 Elvado said:

Those involved should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Pretty much the Republican position : throw the underlings under the bus and seat the cheater.

Your solution?

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[SSHoya]

You know you're in trouble when your son testifies against you:

RALEIGH, N.C. — The son of Republican congressional candidate Mark Harris testified Wednesday that he warned his father repeatedly that he believed a political operative now at the center of an election-fraud investigation had previously used illegal tactics to win votes.

John Harris, now an assistant U.S. attorney in Raleigh, said he advised his father in conversations and emails that he believed Leslie McCrae Dowless was “shady” and appeared to have illegally collected absentee ballots in 2016 while working for a different Republican candidate in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/candidates-son-warned-father-of-nc-political-operatives-tactics/2019/02/20/a1fbfecc-3521-11e9-a400-e481bf264fdc_story.html?utm_term=.ba88fd96f683

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Feb 20, 2019 22:33:50 GMT -5 SSHoya said:

You know you're in trouble when your son testifies against you:

RALEIGH, N.C. — The son of Republican congressional candidate Mark Harris testified Wednesday that he warned his father repeatedly that he believed a political operative now at the center of an election-fraud investigation had previously used illegal tactics to win votes.

John Harris, now an assistant U.S. attorney in Raleigh, said he advised his father in conversations and emails that he believed Leslie McCrae Dowless was “shady” and appeared to have illegally collected absentee ballots in 2016 while working for a different Republican candidate in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/candidates-son-warned-father-of-nc-political-operatives-tactics/2019/02/20/a1fbfecc-3521-11e9-a400-e481bf264fdc_story.html?utm_term=.ba88fd96f683

Seems odd that there's a legit case of election fraud and Republicans are either silent or saying we should seat the guy who cheated..... I mean this is their thing, no?

The attorney for the Mark Harris committee is trying to explain why these documents weren’t produced until yesterday. The attorney says they thought the produced all relevant documents within the scope of the subpoena #NC09

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Mark Harris's son outlined concerns in email: “The key thing that I am fairly certain they do that is illegal is that they collect the completed absentee ballots and mail them all at once."

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Commit election fraud, and if it doesn't work, you get to run in a new election... Sweet....

[badgerhoya]

Feb 23, 2019 10:44:02 GMT -5 @yaboynyp said:

Commit election fraud, and if it doesn't work, you get to run in a new election... Sweet....

But at least he’s a preacher, and preachers never lie!

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[prhoya]

Feb 23, 2019 12:12:27 GMT -5 badgerhoya said:

Feb 23, 2019 10:44:02 GMT -5 @yaboynyp said:

Commit election fraud, and if it doesn't work, you get to run in a new election... Sweet....

But at least he’s a preacher, and preachers never lie!

They give and get mulligans.

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Mitch McConnell both pretended that it wasn't clear that his party benefited from apparent fraud in North Carolina and pretended that it proved the need for voter ID.

Is this McConnell not understanding how things work, or is he just lying for the sake of it?

[njhoya78]

The answer is yes.

[SSHoya]

Gee, Republicans under federal investigation for election fraud. I assume Kris Kobach is outraged! Or is he offering his defense services pro bono?

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-grand-jury-issues-subpoenas-in-nc-election-fraud-investigation/2019/03/12/3ee7010e-44e6-11e9-aaf8-4512a6fe3439_story.html?

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McConnell’s stonewalling of this bill -- the same move he made with Merrick Garland -- flies in the face of public opinion. Recent polling from the PAC End Citizens United found that 82 percent of all voters and 84 percent of independents said they support a bill of reforms to tackle corruption.

And Democrats aren’t pure here. When it comes to issues like gerrymandering, Dems have historically been just as guilty as Republicans of trying to game the system to their advantage. But with their bill, the For the People Act, they are acknowledging the public demand for change -- which, really, should be a bipartisan enterprise. In 700 pages, the bill tackles all the major problems that the Post Editorial Board has repeatedly pointed out as poison to our politics.


GERRYMANDERING. H.R.1 would mandate all the states to set up independent, nonpartisan commissions to draw congressional district boundaries that don’t favor one party or the other.

Florida voters have been pioneers in this, passing ballot measures in 2010 to ban redistricting based on political advantage. But the Legislature ignored the new law and repeatedly drafted maps to favor the dominant Republican Party -- until the Florida Supreme Court forced an equitable outcome. H.R. 1 would take the job of map-drawing out of the Legislature’s hands and give it to a neutral panel: a more trustworthy solution.

VOTER PARTICIPATION AND SUPPRESSION. H.R. 1 would make voter registration automatic via an opt-out system, as it is in Oregon. It would reinstate the protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, stripped away in 2013 when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the key requirement that states with histories of discrimination receive “preclearance” from the U.S. Justice Department before changing voting systems.

As a result of that sorry decision, states led by GOP governors and legislatures, like Florida, have time and again clamped down on voting access: purging voting rolls, limiting early-voting days, rejecting ballots after questioning a signature. In our state, thankfully, judges have blocked most of this nonsense.

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You have to admire Republicans unwavering desire to stop groups they fear might not vote for them from voting. I guess because they love *Democracy.

Looks like a poll tax to me...

[prhoya]

Mar 20, 2019 8:25:29 GMT -5 @yaboynyp said:

Looks like a poll tax to me...

Looks like the Florida GOP just gave away all those votes... smh...

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Hawaii was last in Voter turnout:

Meanwhile, Tennessee was second to last...

Tennessee wants to make it harder to hold voter registration drives

www.cnn.com/2019/04/13/politics/tennessee-voter-registration-drive-bill-trnd/index.html

Tennessee has one of the lowest voter registration rates in the country, according to Pew's Election Performance Index. Soon, it could get a lot harder to help people there register to vote.

Tennessee has a registration rate of 78.52%. While that would be a passing grade at school, it puts Tennessee at 45th among the 50 states for its voter registration rate.
A bill currently making its way through the Tennessee legislature would impose new restrictions on groups that hold voter registration drives and subject them to potential jail time and massive fines.

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett, whose office is behind the legislation, wrote in an op-ed for the Tennessean that the law is intended to preserve the integrity of the election process.
"While we strive to register Tennesseans to vote, it must be done responsibly and in a manner that does not compromise the security of elections," Hargett wrote. "Groups that seek to register large numbers of voters, while typically doing so with good intentions, potentially put legitimate voter registrations at risk."

Same ol bs story...

Imagine having one of the lowest registration rates in the country and your focus is to try and go for last place... There's really no purpose to these laws other than trying to decrease turn out....

[hoyarooter]

Apr 17, 2019 9:14:26 GMT -5 @yaboynyp said:

Hawaii was last in Voter turnout:

Meanwhile, Tennessee was second to last...

Tennessee wants to make it harder to hold voter registration drives

www.cnn.com/2019/04/13/politics/tennessee-voter-registration-drive-bill-trnd/index.html

Tennessee has one of the lowest voter registration rates in the country, according to Pew's Election Performance Index. Soon, it could get a lot harder to help people there register to vote.

Tennessee has a registration rate of 78.52%. While that would be a passing grade at school, it puts Tennessee at 45th among the 50 states for its voter registration rate.
A bill currently making its way through the Tennessee legislature would impose new restrictions on groups that hold voter registration drives and subject them to potential jail time and massive fines.

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett, whose office is behind the legislation, wrote in an op-ed for the Tennessean that the law is intended to preserve the integrity of the election process.
"While we strive to register Tennesseans to vote, it must be done responsibly and in a manner that does not compromise the security of elections," Hargett wrote. "Groups that seek to register large numbers of voters, while typically doing so with good intentions, potentially put legitimate voter registrations at risk."

Same ol bs story...

Imagine having one of the lowest registration rates in the country and your focus is to try and go for last place... There's really no purpose to these laws other than trying to decrease turn out....

What?? This is obviously an effort to eliminate rampant voter fraud. Just ask Trump.

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Amendment 4 was passed by 64% of Florida voters.

You have to appreciate the Party's dedication to coming up with creative ways to deny people their voting rights..