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Repuiblicans continue their campaign to disenfranchize minority voters, working in AZ

HomerJS

HomerJS

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GOP: Gut the Voting Right Act provision that requires pre-clearance before enacting changes to voting for states that have history of discrimination/disenfranchisement.

GOP: In Arizona find a majority-minority district. Cut the number of polling places from 300 to 60 (70% reduction)

GOP: Watch the 5 hour lines to vote. Watch said district have voters give up because they are too old or can't wait in line 5 hours.

GOP: Leave the white districts alone.

GOP: Claim innocence.

Alabama did this same bullshit. Enact voter ID requirements and then close motor vehicle locations in predominately black districts.

But Republicans will continue to deny they put up roadblocks to minorities voting.

Aracely Calderon, a naturalized citizen from Guatemala, arrived just before the polls closed at 7 pm in downtown Phoenix to vote in Arizona’s primary last night. “When Calderon arrived, the line spanned more than 700 people and almost 4 blocks,” the Arizona Republic reported. She waited in line for five hours, becoming the last voter in the state to cast a ballot at 12:12 am. “I’m here to exercise my right to vote,” she said shortly before midnight, explaining why she stayed in line.

But many other Arizonans left the polls in disgust. The lines were so long because election officials in Phoenix’s Maricopa County, the largest in the state, reduced the number of polling places by 70 percent from 2012 to 2016, from 200 to just 60—one polling place per every 21,000 voters
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Election officials said they reduced the number of polling sites to save money—an ill-conceived decision that severely inconvenienced hundreds of thousands of voters. Previously, Maricopa County would have needed to receive federal approval for reducing the number of polling sites, because Arizona was one of 16 states where jurisdictions with a long history of discrimination had to submit their voting changes under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. This type of change would very likely have been blocked since minorities make up 40 percent of Maricopa County’s population and reducing the number of polling places would have left minority voters worse off. Section 5 blocked 22 voting changes from taking effect in Arizona since the state was covered under the VRA in 1975 for discriminating against Hispanic and Native American voters.
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Here’s what one Maricopa County voter wrote to us:

“I literally went to multiple polling places, a total of FIVE separate times, only to find that the 1 hour wait (which I didn’t have time for this morning) only increased as the day went on. Eventually, I gave up at 6:40 p.m. when I saw the line at its longest, at least 2-3 hours. This was the first time in my life I genuinely felt disenfranchised.”

“Disenfranchised” was a flash word on Tuesday. Many voters used it.
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http://www.thenation.com/article/th...e-supreme-court-gutted-the-voting-rights-act/
 
Greetings HomerJS,

The repugs have long since quit being the party of Reagan and have become the party of Racism. They wish to restore states rights, yeh, the same platform that George Wallace ran on in 1968 as a Dixiecrat. I hope they implode.

best,
swampy
 
I just heard on the news a group of Republican State Reps want to pass a bill that sets a minimum floor for voting locations. The problem impacted D & R voters.
The woman in charge of voting locations guaranteed at least 720 locations for the Presidential election
 
Arizona had early voting. My Mom and her husband voted two weeks ago, via mail. I don't understand why more people didn't vote that way.
 
compuwiz1 said:
Arizona had early voting. My Mom and her husband voted two weeks ago, via mail. I don't understand why more people didn't vote that way.
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So fookin what? It's a free country, innit? If every free citizen freely decides to vote in person on election day, the state should have the infrastructure to accommodate it. It's nobody's business why a person chooses to vote thru one channel or another.
 
compuwiz1 said:
Arizona had early voting. My Mom and her husband voted two weeks ago, via mail. I don't understand why more people didn't vote that way.
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I agree that early voting is the way to go for a general election but more people voted for Rubio than Kasich in AZ because of early voting. Basically, if your candidate drops out or there is some last minute bombshell information, your early vote cannot be changed and basically you voted for a non viable candidate.
 
Considering millenials are 80:20 democratic, in 20 years it won't matter at all. It's pretty clear what they want.. free education, free health care and free voting.

Retardican conservaterrorist angry racists like compuwiz1 are dying out and I'm happy it won't take long till we win no matter what.
 
Indus said:
Considering millenials are 80:20 democratic, in 20 years it won't matter at all. It's pretty clear what they want.. free education, free health care and free voting.

Retardican conservaterrorist angry racists like compuwiz1 are dying out and I'm happy it won't take long till we win no matter what.
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The entirety of my Arizona family voted Democrat. They're not complaining, as they simply mailed in their votes. Could the reduced number of polls be attributed to the anticipation that not as many would be required, due to mail in voting? Oh, noes, it has to be some Republican conspiracy.
 
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Indus said:
Considering millenials are 80:20 democratic, in 20 years it won't matter at all. It's pretty clear what they want.. free education, free health care and free voting.

Retardican conservaterrorist angry racists like compuwiz1 are dying out and I'm happy it won't take long till we win no matter what.
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True libertard, someone disagrees with you: your a racist.

meanwhile liberatds like Indus defend Islamic terrorism, and Illegal immigrant SCABS, over supporting their fellow citizens.
 
michal1980 said:
True libertard, someone disagrees with you: your a racist.

meanwhile liberatds like Indus defend Islamic terrorism, and Illegal immigrant SCABS, over supporting their fellow citizens.
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compuwiz1 said:
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The entirety of my Arizona family voted Democrat. They're not complaining, as they simply mailed in their votes. Could the reduced number of polls be attributed to the anticipation that not as many would be required, due to mail in voting? Oh, noes, it has to be some Republican conspiracy.
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ONLY REPUBLICANS make voting changes that inevitability put barriers for minorities to vote.

Again why ONLY Maricopa county. If they reduced polling places by 70% statewide I would agree with you

Again in case you forget...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOT1bRYdK8
 
GOP can't win any other way. Can't win this way either because their own base is now sick of them. Gonna lose SCOTUS soon, then voting rights restored and Citizens United in the dumpster where it belongs. Can't steal, can't buy an election. Then what?
 
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Indus said:
Considering millenials are 80:20 democratic, in 20 years it won't matter at all. It's pretty clear what they want.. free education, free health care and free voting.

Retardican conservaterrorist angry racists like compuwiz1 are dying out and I'm happy it won't take long till we win no matter what.
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Who's going to pay for all that free stuff once they do? Certainly not the "collective action problem" leftists.
 
The problem for Republicans is they screw even the idiots who vote for them, so even if they can steal an election, everyone still hates their guts.
 
We need a constitutional amendment guaranteeing every citizen over 18 the right to vote. This way Feds can set minimum standards for all 57 states.
 
Oddly, every single person I saw on CNN complaining about this was an old white person, yet we have this thread insisting that "Repuiblicans" are disenfranchising minorities. Go figure.
 
Just my own two-cents is that you should not be allowed to exercise your right to vote unless you can pass the same background check as you do when you exercise your right to buy a gun.

Show your picture ID, register ahead of time, let the government make sure of where you live and your right to vote, and then you can vote.

If 'commonsense' rules for guns are acceptable then commonsense rules for voting are also acceptable.
 
senseamp said:
Republicans on SCOTUS think we don't need any such thing anymore, so they gutted the Voting Rights Act.
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That's hilarious.

You understand that it was BLACK CHURCHES that started the legal case that went to the USSC, right?

A black church could not get permission to move their polling place when they moved their church and that set off the case.
 
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Bart*Simpson said:
Just my own two-cents is that you should not be allowed to exercise your right to vote unless you can pass the same background check as you do when you exercise your right to buy a gun.

Show your picture ID, register ahead of time, let the government make sure of where you live and your right to vote, and then you can vote.

If 'commonsense' rules for guns are acceptable then commonsense rules for voting are also acceptable.
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Key problem here is you "own" a gun you know buy it where as you "cast" a vote like make your voice heard. One is a possession the other is an opinion.
 
Bart*Simpson said:
That's hilarious.

You understand that it was BLACK CHURCHES that started the legal case that went to the USSC, right?

http://gazette.com/50-years-after-v...-fighting-voting-restrictions/article/1556950
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Are you really this stupid, or you think we are?

The Rev. James C. Perkins said the historically black PNBC, which is holding its annual meeting in Dallas this week, is joining other religious and civic groups to challenge restrictions in state voting laws.

On Wednesday, a federal court ruled that a Texas voter identification law discriminates against minorities. A federal judge is now looking into a Justice Department challenge to new voting restrictions in North Carolina.
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Fanatical Meat said:
Key problem here is you "own" a gun you know buy it where as you "cast" a vote like make your voice heard. One is a possession the other is an opinion.
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Both are enumerated rights and neither right is inferior to the other.

Either it's legal to require a photo ID of voters or it's illegal to require a photo ID of gun buyers.

One or the other.
 
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