GOP Is Attempting To Steal Wisconsin And Georgia Ahead Of 2020

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Moonbeam

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I can't imagine a mafioso style party trying to steal anything. I thought they just gave out loans. As long as you vote the way we want and pay them back at usurious rates we will let you live and Daddy Trump will pat you on the head. What good is Stockholm Syndrome if you can't use it for something like getting rich.
 

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Have you guys seen this?


Ehm.
Can you do that?

Taking things at face value, I don't even have a problem with it. If he recused himself from a case because he had a conflict of interest which no longer exists, then he should participate.

The real concern is that he and other judges might decide based on political interests instead of their simple interpretation of the law. And that is something I am duly afraid of.

It's actually something in which I have had a difference with many here in viewing Gorsuch. While I do not share his lens in viewing the law, I find that he is consistent in applying this lens to all of his decisions even when they conflict with conservative politician leanings. That said, no, I don't believe he is unbiased. That is humanly impossible. I merely find him ethical in attempting to confront his bias. I feel such a trait is greatly undervalued in our society as a whole.
 

cytg111

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Taking things at face value, I don't even have a problem with it. If he recused himself from a case because he had a conflict of interest which no longer exists, then he should participate.

The real concern is that he and other judges might decide based on political interests instead of their simple interpretation of the law. And that is something I am duly afraid of.

It's actually something in which I have had a difference with many here in viewing Gorsuch. While I do not share his lens in viewing the law, I find that he is consistent in applying this lens to all of his decisions even when they conflict with conservative politician leanings. That said, no, I don't believe he is unbiased. That is humanly impossible. I merely find him ethical in attempting to confront his bias. I feel such a trait is greatly undervalued in our society as a whole.

Seth seems to be of the mind that disbarment is in order

 

IronWing

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*sigh*
My state sucks. What the hell happened here?
High percentage of pro-life voters who will never vote non-Rep plus offshoring and automation gutted the industrial economy from Green Bay to Kenosha and the Dems failed to talk about it. Wisconsin, outside of Dane County and Milwaukee has always been socially conservative. Economic policy was the glue that kept Wisconsin blue. When Bill Clinton dragged the Dem Party to the right on economic policy, he removed any reason for blue collar workers to vote Dem. As the Reps went fascist, the Dems went conservative on economics. One could reasonably argue that current liberal policies would be much better for displaced communities but the liberals don't talk to people and the Reps do. The fact that the Reps are lying doesn't make as much impact as the fact that the Reps care enough about folks to take the time to lie to them.
 
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BUTCH1

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we all knew it. these people need to be prosecuted.

And that's just one of the GOP's tricks, another is closing polling places in low-income areas, (mostly Democratic voters) so they are all forced into 1-2 packed polling spots and made to wait hours. During the 2018 mid's I took a bike ride and came across one polling station with 2+ hour wait lines, (FL), people were telling me their traditinol polling spots were closed down. Now throw in the Trump threat to have any mail in ballot arriving after the election, (even though postmarked before election day) considered null and void. In every red state/county efforts are made to shut down early voting and removal of drop boxes, anything possible to discourage an honest election.
 

HomerJS

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Remember Republicans enacted voter ID laws taking advantage of the fact Native American reservations often don't have residential street addresses? This particular reservation voted majority Democrat.

 

nickqt

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Remember Republicans enacted voter ID laws taking advantage of the fact Native American reservations often don't have residential street addresses? This particular reservation voted majority Democrat.

Wait, you mean Republicans systematically disenfranchise voters who don't vote for them? No, say it ain't so.
 

trenchfoot

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Posted on Mon, Dec 16th, 2019 by Sean Colarossi
Rachel Maddow Sounds The Alarm: GOP Is Attempting To Steal Wisconsin And Georgia Ahead Of 2020




Rachel Maddow sounded the alarm on Monday night about a Republican effort to steal two key swing states ahead of 2020.

According to the MSNBC host, GOP officials in Wisconsin and Georgia are purging hundreds of thousands of voters from the rolls, and they’re targeting places regions that have the most Democratic voters.
In the case of Wisconsin, as Maddow pointed out, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers only won the state by 30,000 votes. The decision by a judge in the state to side with a conservative law firm will essentially unregister more than 230,000 voters.
The ruling is enough to swing the state back to Republicans in 2020, particularly since the voter purge will target Milwaukee and Madison – both Democratic strongholds.



same old same old here we go again


Yeah but those voters rights laws the Repubs created should prevent all of that suppression and disenfranchising they're pressing on with from happening right? /s
 

conehead433

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I hate that I live in Georgia. Kemp stole the election to become Governor. A number of polling places have been closed in Atlanta, forcing 160,000 voters to all cast their ballots in one polling place. You probably don't even need to guess what group of voters won't actually be able to successfully cast their ballots. Now the secretary of State is making the claim that up to 1000 duplicate votes occurred in the latest primary. Did it actually happen? I have serious doubts. Towing the line for Trump to make his outlandish mail voting fraud seem like it may actually be true. I fully expect other red states to start making similar dubious claims to cast doubt about the whole election process.
 

nickqt

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I hate that I live in Georgia. Kemp stole the election to become Governor. A number of polling places have been closed in Atlanta, forcing 160,000 voters to all cast their ballots in one polling place. You probably don't even need to guess what group of voters won't actually be able to successfully cast their ballots. Now the secretary of State is making the claim that up to 1000 duplicate votes occurred in the latest primary. Did it actually happen? I have serious doubts. Towing the line for Trump to make his outlandish mail voting fraud seem like it may actually be true. I fully expect other red states to start making similar dubious claims to cast doubt about the whole election process.
I live in Atlanta. I voted early for the primary, before they "rescheduled" the primary to June. I also received an absentee ballot in the mail after it was rescheduled. Since I had already voted early, I just chucked the absentee ballot. I'm betting a lot of people voted early, got an absentee ballot and filled it out and sent it in.

All of that said, we know of the 1000 extra votes because that's the whole fucking point of elections having election workers, so it's no big deal to cancel out the extra vote...just cancel whichever came first, or last, for everyone. I don't care which.

Problem solved.

I'm not quite sure why people don't vote early. I vote at South DeKalb Mall at the first opportunity during early voting, typically 3 weeks before election day.

Vote early, in person. If you have to vote by mail, TURN YOUR BALLOT IN INSIDE THE PRECINCT.

Freedom ain't free.
 
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Zorba

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I hate that I live in Georgia. Kemp stole the election to become Governor. A number of polling places have been closed in Atlanta, forcing 160,000 voters to all cast their ballots in one polling place. You probably don't even need to guess what group of voters won't actually be able to successfully cast their ballots. Now the secretary of State is making the claim that up to 1000 duplicate votes occurred in the latest primary. Did it actually happen? I have serious doubts. Towing the line for Trump to make his outlandish mail voting fraud seem like it may actually be true. I fully expect other red states to start making similar dubious claims to cast doubt about the whole election process.
My friend was one of the thousand. He sent his ballot back two weeks before the election, it never showed up as received. He called them the day before the election, to verify they hadn't gotten it. The day of the election he checked online, still not there. So he went to vote in person. The poll worker called to verify they hadn't gotten it, had him sign an affidavit staying the facts, and let him vote.

The next day the website showed they had gotten it two weeks before the election.

Of course he lives in a majority black area and had to wait 3.5 hours to vote in person.
 

sportage

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Well for one thing, voters need to be on top of this and do their own legwork. Check to make sure you are properly registered, check that you can vote in this upcoming election, check that you haven’t been purged, reregister if you were deleted, do what ever you need to do. If you are not a felon and you are a legal American citizen and there is no reason stopping you from voting.... then make sure you can indeed vote. Never just assume all is fine and dandy, especially with republicans in charge. If you can legally vote then nothing they can do should stop you from voting, just ensure that their dirty tricks did not affect you and if it did, correct it.

This is still America remember....
If you can legally vote then no one can stop you. Just keep on top of it, do what you need to do, then go vote.
 
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