PatsyOct 26, 2024
Laffy

🤬

BREAKING: 11,000 young South Carolinians won't be able to cast a ballot this year after a judge declined to fix an error that wrongfully denied the registrations of those who were 17-years-old when they registered but would be 18 by Election Day.-- Democracy Docket

Oct 25, 2024 at 9:21pmWeb
Show threadLittleGoatGirlOct 25, 2024
@GottaLaff now I am so pissed - what the hell...
Show threadLaffyOct 25, 2024
@aliza In our face suppression
Show threadBunNICKula🇨🇦Oct 25, 2024

@GottaLaff

They aren't even hiding it.

Show threadBunNICKula🇨🇦Oct 25, 2024
@GottaLaff
Also, the irony of "11,000 votes" is not lost.
Show threadNorman WilsonOct 25, 2024
@intothewestaway But not VAX 11/780 votes as in Georgia.
Show threadBunNICKula🇨🇦Oct 25, 2024

@oclsc

I PDP the fool who messes with democracy.

Show threadUnfunnyRyan 🌎 ♻️Oct 25, 2024
@GottaLaff Unacceptable. How awful. Their rights are being denied. Period.
Show threadTinkOct 25, 2024
@GottaLaff Wow. So blatant voter suppression.
Show threadLaffyOct 25, 2024
@tinkb333 In our faces
Show threadRobert Lowe BarnettOct 25, 2024

@GottaLaff

I don't suppose there was ever a chance SC's 9EV could swing to D.

Show thread@lizzzOct 25, 2024
@WonkaBee @GottaLaff I guess there's less of a chance now.
Show threadKen BruckerOct 25, 2024
@GottaLaff disenfranchisement in action. Time for quick appeal!
Show threadLaffyOct 25, 2024
@sigsegv To whom? Trump's court?
Show threadKen BruckerOct 26, 2024
@GottaLaff not trying only guarantees a loss. Maybe the ruling gets overturned on appeal and even survives the trip to SCOTUS.
Show threadKen BruckerOct 26, 2024

@GottaLaff but, as a state issue, this would only go to the state level top court and not SCOTUS so is it even fair to say that Trump’s court would hear the case? (If I’m understanding jurisdiction)

I’m a little surprised to hear the defeatism coming from you. You’ve pushed back on me for similar negative thoughts and I thank you for that.

We need to keep up the fight. Push until we can’t. GOP want us to tire and quit.

Let’s not play by their rules.

Show threadLaffyOct 26, 2024

@sigsegv Not defeatism, realism. It's South Carolina. And I never said NOT to appeal. I was suggesting the likelihood of getting a fair ruling might be low.

I've never quit in my life.

Show threadKen BruckerOct 27, 2024
@GottaLaff ok. I interpreted your comment to imply that appeal is a waste of time. We’re on the same page.
Show threadLaffyOct 27, 2024

@sigsegv Oh, never never. It’s NEVER a waste of time. I just don’t feel particularly optimistic about it.

Thank you.

Show threadSchrödinger's NerdOct 25, 2024
@GottaLaff I assume most of them are now 18. Shouldn’t they be allowed to go register now????
Show threadBig Kumera EnergyOct 26, 2024
@Nerd2PointO @GottaLaff nope, past the deadline
Show threadSchrödinger's NerdOct 26, 2024
@depereo @GottaLaff well that’s a lawsuit right there.
Show threadBig Kumera EnergyOct 26, 2024
@Nerd2PointO @GottaLaff yeah but... Which judge's courtroom?
Show threadCandyKOct 25, 2024
@GottaLaff wtf?
Show threadLaffyOct 25, 2024
@lovelylovely My thoughts exactly
Show threadGJ Groothedde 🇪🇺Oct 25, 2024
@GottaLaff Democracy dies in broad daylight.
Show threadDoreen32128 ready to rumble!Oct 25, 2024
@GottaLaff WHAT??? I hope the lawyers are already on this!!!
Show threadOliver HuntOct 25, 2024

@GottaLaff weird how the only electoral corruption seems to invariably be right shitstains denying the rights of people to vote. Especially when the same shitstains denying the constitutional right of these kids to register to vote, is 100% ok with these kids being forced to carry pregnancies.

Almost like the entire right wing is a bunch of rapists in waiting.

Show threadKChernecky For DemocracyOct 25, 2024
@GottaLaff @democracydocket
Show threadLaffyOct 25, 2024
@PeasLuvnJustice I got it from @democracydocket ...just couldn't get it to load right.
Show threadKChernecky For DemocracyOct 25, 2024
@GottaLaff I'm sure Marc and his team will do everything in their power to appeal?? 🙏
Show threadGVF 🇨🇦Oct 25, 2024

@GottaLaff
I'm sure there will be many post election rulings that rights were violated. But, the vote that never occurred can't be counted.

Look at the case of 20,000 people tossed off the 2000 voter roll in Florida because they had names that were like felons.

W won by less than 600 votes

Show threadWandering StarOct 26, 2024
@GottaLaff 1896 voters https://news.yahoo.com/news/sc-judge-rules-against-fixing-204136699.html
SC judge rules against fixing mistake, keeps eligible SC teens from voting in 2024

1,896 South Carolinians who thought they registered to vote at the Department of Motor Vehicles were never registered, according to the ACLU.

Yahoo News
Show threadlolonurseOct 26, 2024
@GottaLaff
I sure hope these 11,000 young adults file a class action. This is outrageous!
Hopefully the ACLU gets involved.
Show threadtessaraktOct 26, 2024
@lolonurse @GottaLaff against whom?
Show threadCassandrichOct 26, 2024
@GottaLaff Can they perhaps cast provisional ballots pending result of appeal?
Show threadLisPiOct 26, 2024
@dalias @GottaLaff I wonder, is there some sort of penalty for willfully obstructing the votes of people?
Show threadJohn TimaeusOct 26, 2024

@GottaLaff

In other news:
"Judge holds prayer vigil for his candidate, in hopes that he won't be held accountable."

Show threadmickymorseOct 26, 2024
@GottaLaff What judge? Surely a maga appointed fascist. South Carolina voters should revolt and not pay state taxes to insurrectionists.
Show threadwil from onlineOct 26, 2024
@GottaLaff as a South Carolinian this sickens me. I demand answers as to why this happened.
Show threadLaffyOct 26, 2024
@wil_from_online As a former Californian now in Canada, I do too
Show threadVeedemsOct 26, 2024
@GottaLaff 1,896*
Show threadFraserOct 26, 2024

@GottaLaff @gerald where as in Australia the Electoral Commission contacts 17 year olds to make sure they register so that they can vote on their 18th birthday if need be.

The U.S. system is so weird.

Show threadtessaraktOct 26, 2024
@fraser @GottaLaff @gerald also, what is the role of a Department of Motor Vehicles (!) in this?
Show threadRosemary McNaughtonOct 26, 2024
@tessarakt @fraser @GottaLaff @gerald
Many states (maybe all?) offer voter registration while getting your driver’s license-you’re proving your identity, address and possibly citizenship at the time, so it makes sense to streamline that. If you’re under 18 you are pre-registered. My daughter is 17 and will miss this election, but she’ll automatically become a registered voter at age 18, having done all her paperwork two years earlier.
Show threadJoan AlbrightOct 26, 2024
@tessarakt @fraser @GottaLaff @gerald You can register to vote at the DMV with just a check box while you're getting your license. At least in my state.
Show thread🇨🇦 TRH 🇨🇦Oct 26, 2024
@fraser @GottaLaff @gerald In Canada, when you file your taxes, there's a checkbox to confirm your information with Elections Canada. Before any election from municipal to federal, we get a form in the mail a month or more ahead of time.
It's SO SIMPLE!
Show threadhorenOct 26, 2024
@Mayor_of_Smartarse The right approach, but if the goal is to avoid a correct election, you deploy hundreds of obstacles.
Show threadTracellaOct 26, 2024
@Mayor_of_Smartarse @fraser @GottaLaff @gerald USA is so manipulated and groomed, Gawd forbid you ? the norm.... Electoral college is total bs! Vote Blue 💙 for the free world.
Show threadRoger MooreOct 26, 2024
@Mayor_of_Smartarse @fraser @GottaLaff @gerald
Registering to vote in many jurisdictions in the USA isn't hard because we don't know how to do it; it's hard because one of our political parties has abandoned democratic principles and is trying to prevent people from voting.
Show thread🇨🇦 TRH 🇨🇦Oct 27, 2024
@VATVSLPR @fraser @GottaLaff @gerald And you don't have a national system that can't be interfered with. We don't get purged from a voter roll until we are dead and if we move, it changes location for us.
Show threadErin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦Oct 26, 2024
@Mayor_of_Smartarse @fraser @GottaLaff @gerald and you can vote by mail, in advance and at any voting location.
Show thread(moved)Galbinus Caeli 🌯Oct 26, 2024

@fraser @GottaLaff @gerald The US was founded with principles of limiting the franchise. Initially it was limited to land owning men. Legally it has expanded repeatedly so it is now most adults. (Non Citizens, the legally incompetent, and some former or current prisoners are the only legal exclusions.)

Unfortunately one political viewpoint has benefited from the limited franchise, fights against any expansion, and makes concerted efforts to remove it from blocks of people.

Show threadfulanigirlOct 26, 2024
@fraser @GottaLaff @gerald Not weird...just racist and classist, as it has always been.
Show threadWeqbOct 26, 2024
@GottaLaff just for letting you know (I don't know how elections work over there) in most countries you can vote if you are 18 in voting day
Show threadLaffyOct 26, 2024
@weqb Same here. That's why the ruling was so horrible.