An assault on American voters is underway

[GhostofSparta]

11 hours ago, China said:

Why are the police doing nothing?

What do you mean? They're the ones calling.

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[China]

Texas AG went on Mike Lindell's TV network urging people to pressure state judges after they stopped him from prosecuting supposed voter fraud

 

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton went on MyPillow CEO and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell's broadcast platform and urged the public to put pressure on the state's Court of Criminal Appeals judges over a recent ruling that stripped him of the power to unilaterally prosecute supposed election-fraud cases. 

 

"Contact the Court of Criminal Appeals. Call them out by name. I mean, you can look them up," the Republican attorney general said during an interview last week with Brannon Howse on Lindell's platform, Frank. 

 

"There's eight of them that voted the wrong way," Paxton said and urged listeners to "call them," "send mail," and "send email."

 

"I encourage Texans to talk to their legislators to make them aware of it because most of Texas legislators don't realize what's about to happen in Texas," Paxton said during the January 17 interview. 

 

After the interview, Howse showed a graphic with the address and contact information for the court in Austin, saying, "Let them know what you think about this" but also advising viewers to be polite.

 

"Assume that your call is being recorded," he added, "so speak in nice, calm terms."

 

Howse also said viewers could look up the judges online.

 

Paxton's office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

 

In December, the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals — an all-GOP panel — ruled 8-1 that Paxton can no longer unilaterally prosecute purported cases of voter fraud. 

 

Paxton previously said in a tweet that because of the decision, "Soros-funded district attorneys will have sole power to decide whether election fraud has occurred in Texas. This ruling could be devastating for future elections in Texas." 

 

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We Uncovered How Many Georgians Were Disenfranchised by GOP Voting Restrictions. It’s Staggering.

 

“States are not engaging in trying to suppress voters whatsoever,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declared last year.

 

Facts on the ground in Georgia tell a different story. A new data analysis by Mother Jones shows that the number of voters disenfranchised by rejected mail ballot applications skyrocketed after the GOP-controlled legislature passed sweeping new restrictions on mail voting last year. The law enacted in March 2021 shortened the time people have to request and return mail ballots, prohibited election officials from sending such applications to all voters, added new ID requirements, and dramatically curtailed the use of ballot drop boxes, among other changes. 

 

During municipal elections in November, Georgia voters were 45 times more likely to have their mail ballot applications rejected—and ultimately not vote as a result—than in 2020. If that same rejection rate were extrapolated to the 2020 race, more than 38,000 votes would not have been cast in a presidential contest decided by just over 11,000 votes.

 

In November 2021, Georgians who successfully obtained mail ballots were also twice as likely to have those ballots rejected once they were submitted compared to the previous year. If that were the case in 2020, about 31,000 fewer votes would have been cast in the presidential election.

 

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[LD0506]

Well no surprise here ^^

 

They'll just keep saying "No we're not-no we're not" and the 1/3 of the species that are still so ****ing stupid that they keep falling for "Got your nose!" will lap it up and burp along with Mitch

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Southern Lawmakers Offer Paper After Texas Rations Voter Registration Forms

 

With Texas’ voter registration deadline looming on Jan. 31, the state—which requires voters to physically print and complete their applications on paper—recently announced a “paper shortage” that would require it to ration the number of forms going out to voter registration groups. Secretary of State John B. Scott’s office cited an alleged supply chain issue driving up the prices of paper, but a coalition of Southern state legislators are calling BS.

 

In a letter signed by 40 lawmakers from Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee, and delivered to the Texas secretary of state’s office on Thursday, the lawmakers pledged to send their own paper to support voter registration efforts in the state.

 

“Because Texas is one of just eight states that still does not allow online voter registration, you leave your voters with no option but paper,” the letter states. “Fortunately, we have paper in our states. We would like to extend an offer to the people of Texas to assist with the procurement of paper for the purpose of printing applications to register to vote.”

 

While the lawmakers, who include Mississippi state Rep. Zakiya Summers, Florida state Rep. Fentrice Driskell, North Carolina state Sen. Natalie Murdock, and others, note that they “cannot, at this time, commit direct appropriations from our state coffers,” they offered to use “state and private resources that we can leverage to help Texas solve its problem.”

 

They also acknowledged that Southern states “share a common history, legacy, and core set of values,” and “chief among those values is Freedom—including the freedom to have a say in how our communities are governed, and the sacred freedom to vote.” Southern states also share a particularly fraught history of segregation and Jim Crow laws that denied Black people voting and civil rights for decades before the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

 

“Voters in Texas, and across the South, deserve better,” they wrote.

 

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Seliger cries foul on GOP in voting district changes

 

State Sen. Kel Seliger swore in federal court that he believes his GOP colleagues violated federal voting laws when redrawing a state Senate seat in North Texas.

 

Seliger’s sworn statement was submitted as part of a lawsuit seeking to throw out the new boundaries for Senate District 10, the Fort Worth seat represented by Democratic state Sen. Beverly Powell. Democrats and civil rights groups argue that the changes were calculated to discriminate against voters of color, shifting Black and Latino Texans across several districts to dilute their political impact.

 

The blue-leaning district is currently confined within the borders of Tarrant County, but the new map redraws boundaries to make the seat whiter, more rural and more Republican.

Seliger is an Amarillo Republican, who has represented Midland and Odessa in the Texas Senate for nearly two decades. 

 

“Having participated in the 2011 and 2013 Senate Select Redistricting Committee proceedings, and having read the prior federal court decision regarding SD10, it was obvious to me that the renewed effort to dismantle SD10 violated the Voting Rights Act and U.S. Constitution,” Seliger’s statement reads.

 

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[goskins10]

This is how republicans are making it impossible for democrats to ever get elected again. It's total bull**** not sure what if anything democrats are doing to combat this. Seems like nothing. 

 

Georgia county purges Democrats from election board and cancels Sunday voting (msn.com)

 

Across the US, Republican legislatures have introduced more than 200 bills aimed at reducing local control over elections and restrict voting access, according to the States United Democracy Center. All of it is aimed at ensuring that Republicans will have control over voting and elections rules, in support of Donald Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud in 2020.

 

Edited January 31, 2022 by goskins10

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Arizona bills embrace Trump conspiracy theories, could allow GOP to reject election results

 

Arizona Republicans opened the legislative session this month with a slew of new voting bills, including legislation that would allow the GOP-led state legislature to "reject" election results.

 

Arizona Republicans, who already approved numerous new voting restrictions last year, are turning many of the GOP's conspiracy theories about Donald Trump's election loss into legislation even after their "forensic audit" of results in Maricopa County failed to turn up any evidence of fraud. Perhaps the most far-reaching bill was introduced by Republican state Rep. John Fillmore, whose legislation could open the door for the Republican-led legislature to overturn election results for no reason at all. The bill already has 15 Republican co-sponsors, including state Rep. Mark Finchem, the Trump-endorsed secretary of state candidate seeking to take over the state's elections.

 

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U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw sends mail-in ballot applications to voters after Texas banned the practice for local election officials

 

U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, is taking heat this week for sending out campaign mailers containing unsolicited mail-in ballot applications to voters who are 65 and older.

 

Last year, Texas Republicans in the Legislature passed an elections law that banned local election officials from that very same practice under the banner of protecting election integrity. However, the law made an exception for candidates and political parties to continue the practice, which has long been a popular get-out-the-vote tactic typically employed by both parties, but especially by Republicans.

 

Democrats this week said Crenshaw’s mailer highlights hypocrisy in the new voting law and shows that Republicans who railed against vote-by-mail expansion efforts last year were only concerned about the ways it could benefit Democrats. Crenshaw’s mailer includes a prefilled mail-in application and instructions that tell the recipient to “simply sign, stamp, and mail” it and to “be sure to vote for Dan Crenshaw” when the ballot comes.

 

“The hypocrisy here is absurd,” said Chris Hollins, the former Harris County Clerk, who inspired the provision in the Texas legislation because of a hotly contested plan to send mail-in ballot applications to all of the county’s registered voters during the pandemic. “Voting by mail is a safe way that is utilized for people to exercise their right to vote. … We should be promoting the right to vote by mail for all those who are eligible, not making it illegal to inform voters of their right.”

 

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[Larry]

So, mailing out ballot applications is illegal, unless it's done by somebody partisan.  

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[Larry]

Kind of belongs here. 
 

 

A lot bigger on moaning about glory times, not so great on proposed solutions. But I thought it might be the seed for some discussion. 

[China]

 

[Simmsy]

12 hours ago, China said:

 

That judge is corrupt, we're screwed.

[China]

Arizona Republican House speaker effectively dooms GOP bill to allow state legislature to reject election results

 

A Republican bill that would have overhauled elections in Arizona -- including giving the state legislature the power to reject election results -- proved to be too much even for state GOP leaders this week.

 

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a Republican, quietly doomed House Bill 2596 on Tuesday with an unusual parliamentary maneuver.

The speaker assigns all new bills to a committee for consideration before they can have full House votes, a choice that often has a great effect on a measure's chance of success. But on Tuesday, Bowers took the unprecedented step of ordering all 12 House committees to consider the elections bill, virtually ensuring it will never reach the floor.

The bill's lead sponsor, Republican state Rep. John Fillmore, referred to the move as a "12-committee lynching" in an interview with CNN affiliate KPHO/KTVK.

Bowers and Fillmore did not respond to CNN's request for comment Thursday.

 

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North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down GOP-drawn maps as unconstitutional

 

The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday struck down Republican-drawn legislative and congressional maps as unconstitutional and asked for new maps to be submitted by Feb. 18.

 

The state's high court said in its ruling that the maps were unconstitutional "beyond a reasonable doubt under the free elections clause, the equal protection clause, the free speech clause, and the freedom of assembly clause of the North Carolina Constitution."

 

The maps, which the GOP-controlled legislature approved in November, would create two new Republican-leaning districts and take away two previously Democratic-leaning districts. 

 

"Showing that a reapportionment plan makes it systematically more difficult for a voter to aggregate his or her vote with other likeminded voters" was enough to establish "the diminishment or dilution of a voter's voting power on the basis of his or her views," the court said in its ruling. 

 

The decision came on a 4-3 vote along partisan lines, with a Democratic majority ruling against the maps.

 

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Arizona GOPer Compares Not Letting Legislature Throw Out Election Results To Lynching

 

Not giving a state legislature the power to freely throw out election results as it pleases is similar to mob murder, according to the Arizona state Republican who sponsored a bill to give the legislature that power.

 

The controversial bill’s sponsor, Arizona state Rep. John Fillmore (R) made the comparison while complaining to local CNN affiliate KPHO/KTVK on Wednesday that Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R) had effectively sunk his bill by assigning it to all 12 House committees for consideration.

 

Fillmore called Bowers’ move a “12-committee lynching” and doubled down when a reporter pressed him on drawing that kind of parallel.

 

“Yeah, it was a lynching,” said the lawmaker, who also declared last week that “we need to get back to 1958-style voting.”

 

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[Larry]

Hey, he didn't compare it to the Holocost. 
 

Now days, that makes him a moderate Republican. 

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Rep. Charlie Crist Requests Merrick Garland Investigate Florida Republican Voter Registration Fraud

 

Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL) has requested that the DOJ investigate reports of Republicans changing the voter registration of seniors without their consent in Florida.

 

Victims are coming forward to say that people in red caps turned up in their communities, talked to voters about their voter registration then illegally switched their registration from Democratic to Republican.

 

In a letter provided to PoliticusUSA, Rep. Crist wrote to Attorney General Garland:

 

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Dear Attorney General Garland:

 

I write regarding recent reports of voter registration fraud perpetrated against elderly South Florida residents who had their voter registration changed without their knowledge or consent.

 

To ensure the integrity of our electoral process, I formally request that you conduct a thorough investigation to determine those responsible and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.

 

According to WPLG Local 10, “the victims were older than 65 years old, live in Miami-Dade County, and all of them were outraged when they learned they were registered as Republicans.”

 

As you know, we must protect the fundamental right to vote to ensure that all Floridians have an opportunity to have their voices heard at the ballot box. This is just another example of how our voting rights are at the greatest danger since the civil rights movement.

 

I thank you for your prompt attention to this matter, and sincerely hope that you will immediately commence a thorough investigation.

 

Sincerely,

Charlie Crist

 

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Supreme Court sides with GOP in Alabama election map case

 

The Supreme Court put on hold a lower court ruling that Alabama must draw new congressional districts before the 2022 elections to increase Black voting power. The high court order boosts Republican chances to hold six of the state’s seven seats in the House of Representatives.

 

The court’s action, by a 5-4 vote announced Monday, means the upcoming elections will be conducted under a map drawn by Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature that contains one majority-Black district, represented by a Black Democrat, in a state in which more than a quarter of the population is Black.

 

A three-judge lower court, including two judges appointed by former President Donald Trump, had ruled that the state had likely violated the federal Voting Rights Act by diluting the political power of Black voters by not creating a second district in which they made up a majority, or close to it.

 

Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito, part of the conservative majority, said the lower court’s order for a new map came too close to the 2022 election cycle.

 

Chief Justice John Roberts joined his three more liberal colleagues in dissent.

 

The justices will at some later date decide whether the map produced by the state violates the landmark voting rights law, a case that could call into question “decades of this Court’s precedent about Section 2 of the VRA,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in dissent.

 

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On 11/17/2021 at 9:51 AM, EmirOfShmo said:

Also, they raided the home of Boebert's former campaign manager.

 

"The FBI carried out a court-ordered search of Peters' home in Mesa County early Tuesday morning, leaving her 'terrified,' Peters said Tuesday night in an appearance on Lindell TV, an online channel run by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a Trump supporter and proponent of discredited claims the 2020 election was stolen," Colorado Politics reports. "Lindell said one of the homes raided by law enforcement authorities belongs to Sherronna Bishop, a Garfield County resident and former campaign manager for U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert."

 

https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-2655749166/

 

 

 

Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters arrested by Grand Junction police for resisting search warrant

 

Police arrested Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters at a Grand Junction restaurant on Tuesday after she resisted authorities' attempts to seize an iPad under a search warrant, police said.

 

Peters was detained briefly and released at the scene pending charges, police said.

 

The incident is not directly related to multiple state and federal investigations into Peters's alleged involvement last year in election data security breaches, authorities confirmed.

The police department's spokeswoman said no additional information was available.

 

According to a search warrant issued Tuesday morning in Mesa County Court, officers were attempting to obtain an Apple iPad tablet computer with a white keyboard case in Peters's possession. Authorities intended to review data "believed to have been created, viewed, accessed, modified, deleted, downloaded or saved" between 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. on Monday, when they suspect Peters recorded proceedings in a courtroom where use of electronic recording devices is forbidden.

 

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Right-wing conspiracies have a new target: a tool that fights actual voter fraud

 

If Republicans over the past few years have made one thing clear, it's that they really care about voter fraud.

 

Sometimes they call it "election irregularities" or "shenanigans," but the issue has become a calling card for a party whose voters by and large falsely think elections in the U.S. are tainted.

 

Which is what makes a currently blossoming election conspiracy so strange: The far right is now running a disinformation campaign against one of the best tools that states have to detect and prevent voter fraud.

 

And experts worry voting policy is already starting to suffer as a result.

 

The tool is a shared database called the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC for short. It allows states to securely share voter registration data across state lines and with a number of other government agencies, like the Social Security Administration and departments of motor vehicles.

 

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