Close your eyes and imagine that if I could draw you would be looking at a caricature of Justice (I use the term loosely) Samuel Alito nude, minus balls & spine & guts. Now open your eyes! Once seen cannot be unseen. #Alito #SCOTUS #Votingsuppression #votingrights #redistricting #Texas
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/27/2225996/-Why-Missouri-s-proposed-electoral-college-for-ballot-measures-could-be-unconstitutional #VotingSuppression A new effort from the Missouri GOP to create what amounts to an "Electoral College" for constitutional amendments is one of the most aggressive moves  by Republicans to undermine direct democracy. This latest attempt to restrict voters' power—just as reproductive-rights advocates are working to place an abortion-rights measure on the ballot—could be dead on arrival because there's a good chance it violates the U.S. Constitution #GOPgerrymandering
Why Missouri's proposed 'electoral college' for ballot measures could be unconstitutional

A new effort from the Missouri GOP to create what amounts to an "Electoral College" for constitutional amendments is one of the most aggressive moves ...

Daily Kos

Florida election bill targets drop boxes again, brings back primary runoffs

A new Florida election bill would further restrict where voters can drop off ballots, as well as force party primary candidates into runoffs. #unitedstates #uspolitics #votedem #republicanparty #votingsuppression #ballotdropboxes #mattgaetz #annaeskamani #florida #2020biglie #mail #primaries #donaldtrump #politics

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/02/20/florida-election-bill-targets-drop-boxes-again-brings-back-primary-runoffs/

Florida election bill targets drop boxes again, brings back primary runoffs

A new Florida election bill would further restrict where voters can drop off ballots, as well as force party primary candidates into runoffs.

Sun Sentinel
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/14/2187243/undefined Deal struck that could restore Black House district in north Florida dismantled by GOP
#floridafascism #GOPgerrymandering #VotingSuppression
Deal struck that could restore Black House district in north Florida dismantled by GOP

Plaintiffs challenging Florida's GOP-drawn congressional map before a state court reached an agreement with defendants on Friday to narrow their claims to just a single seat in the northern part of the state, dropping arguments concerning several other...

Daily Kos

“Yesterday’s vote in #Wisconsin reinforces the polling numbers that show how overwhelmingly popular #abortion rights and fair voting are, and it seems likely to throw the #Republican push to suppress voting into hyperdrive before the 2024 election.”

#Vote #VotingRights #VotingSuppression
#HeatherCoxRichardson #VoterFraud
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April 5, 2023

In yesterday’s election in Wisconsin, the two candidates represented very different futures for the country. One candidate for the state supreme court, Daniel Kelly, had helped politicians to gerrymander the state to give Republicans an iron lock on the state assembly and was backed by antiabortion Republicans. The other, Janet Protasiewicz, promised to stand behind fair voting maps and the protection of reproductive rights.

Letters from an American
Only 10,000 people in Great Britain have applied for government-issued voter ID - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/31/only-10000-people-in-uk-have-applied-for-government-issued-voter-id not just totally unjustified, unnecessary, but also unwanted. a total waste of hundreds of millions #VotingSuppression
Only 10,000 people in Great Britain have applied for government-issued voter ID

Exclusive: number is just 0.5% of those who could need the document under new scheme

The Guardian
Meet Wisconsin’s Proudest Vote Suppressor

From Marc | Even among vote suppressors, Robert Spindell stands out for his enthusiasm for voter suppression.

Democracy Docket
@marcelias I hope you are watching Ohio’s Republicans speeding 2 different election laws thru this week. #votingrights #votingid #votingsuppression
Experts alarmed as Supreme Court weighs giving state legislatures limitless powers to rig elections

Former President Donald Trump's former legal advisor John Eastman penned a 2020 election memo that urged Republican-controlled state legislatures to overrule certified election results based on mere accusations of fraud.While Eastman's theory of the power of state legislatures to reject certified el...

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