Randahl FinkMar 14
At this point, the election of Donald Trump has cost so much money globally, I think it would be far cheaper if the world started funding the American school system.
Show threadTea time.Mar 14
@randahl This is why I stress voter registration as something ANYONE in the world can do to help make America a fairer, less ignorant, more accountable nation.
Latinos are drastically under-registered. Whites and blacks now register to vote ~65% of the time, but Latinos are at ~40%. The way to fix this is give orgs like Votolatino.org enough $$ to hire staff in key states.
You get TX races raising more than VotoLatino raises to register 36.2M voters, where Dems lose by 100-200k votes.
Show threadLeelooMar 14

@KraftTea @randahl
That's not a bug, it's a feature. The entire point of voter registration.

Over here there is no such thing as voter registration, because our politicians aren't trying to prevent certain groups from voting.

Show threadJoe Brockmeier

@leeloo @KraftTea @randahl Voter reg isn't enough either: you need to ensure that people have ID now. In NC, you get ID through the DMV, generally a driver's license. Guess what, though? Most of the DMVs are understaffed and have huge wait times.

The GOP is doing everything it can to suppress the vote. Fighting mail-in voting, sabotaging the post office, changing the rules around when mail-in votes are counted, trying to kill early voting, screwing with poll places... unless the public is leaning more than +5% DEM in an election, the GOP putting its thumb on the scales turns it into a toss-up or lean GOP, because DEM voters are least likely to have ID, have time to go vote, etc.

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Show threadTea time.Mar 14

@jzb @leeloo @randahl Sure, but... the army(ies) you need to focus on ID issues is the same army you need to register voters.

Voter suppression only works in passivity. If you have the money and push a message of "hey, these people are trying to rob you of your vote," that message resonates and voters - especially those who feel targeted by such laws - have a habit of punishing such efforts at the polls, by voting in a lopsided fashion.

So, even if some can't vote, the lopsidedness still wins.

Show threadTea time.Mar 14

@jzb @leeloo @randahl Which I guess is to say we can't allow voter suppression to be some kind of monumental barrier that we make excuses for, limiting the actions we can take today.

And when politicians like Beto O'Rourke can raise $60M in Texas - about $20M more than VotoLatino raises for registration nationwide -and lose in a close race because maybe a $1M more needed to be spent on registering voters first? Well... that just shows a need to focus more spending on registration, really.