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Post by the Scribe on Jan 19, 2022 6:01:50 GMT
Part of the plot to steal the election was that several states tried to use fake electors to thwart the true vote. The Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth Macdonough, in more ways than one, saved the legal counting of votes that day, and by her actions resuscitated democracy for awhile longer. These same red states are putting laws into place which will ALLOW them to NOT COUNT the votes that they don't agree with. So no matter how long we stand in line, it will not matter IF they are allowed to 'cherry pick' which votes to count. It's not who votes, it is WHO COUNTS the votes, and they are empowering only select people to do the counting. If EVERY democrat in the universe goes out and stands in line and votes, it won't matter BECAUSE the (R) states have given permission to NOT COUNT the votes from certain sectors of the community. They made it LEGAL to NOT COUNT votes.
DT lost the 2016 public vote by 3 million votes, Hillary won the popular vote by THAT many. The ones who did the COUNTING (Electoral College) gave the election to DT against the will of the voters. It is a rigged system as DT said, but it is their side doing the rigging.
If TRUMP was aware of this scheme he needs to be put into JAIL, IMMEDIATELY!!
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 20, 2022 10:31:38 GMT
Rather than come up with a fair, free and audit-able election process the GOP again chose NOT to participate. Instead, Red States will continue with their voter suppression, voter roll purging aka strip and flip and have added a new twist where state officials can nullify elections if they don't like the way the numbers add up.Voting bill collapses, Democrats unable to change filibusterwww.yahoo.com/news/big-voting-bill-faces-defeat-050757939.html LISA MASCARO Tue, January 18, 2022, 10:07 PM
In this article: Joe Manchin United States Senator from West Virginia Kyrsten Sinema United States Senator from Arizona Joe Biden 46th and current president of the United States
WASHINGTON (AP) — Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights leaders say is vital to protecting democracy collapsed late Wednesday when two senators refused to join their own party in changing Senate rules to overcome a Republican filibuster after a raw, emotional debate. apnews.com/article/voting-rights-voting-elections-congress-election-2020-ea1282000b96d73298b22bf2092ba57d
The outcome was a stinging defeat for President Joe Biden and his party, coming at the tumultuous close to his first year in office. apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-health-business-economy-6f49a98b7d04d41a4e9eb975c24fddc2
Despite a day of piercing debate and speeches that often carried echoes of an earlier era when the Senate filibuster was deployed by opponents of civil rights legislation, Democrats could not persuade holdout senators Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia to change the Senate procedures on this one bill and allow a simple majority to advance it. apnews.com/hub/kyrsten-sinema apnews.com/hub/joe-manchin
"I am profoundly disappointed," Biden said in a statement after the vote.
However, the president said he is "not deterred” and vowed to “explore every measure and use every tool at our disposal to stand up for democracy.”
Voting rights advocates are warning that Republican-led states nationwide are passing laws making it more difficult for Black Americans and others to vote by consolidating polling locations, requiring certain types of identification and ordering other changes. apnews.com/article/voting-rights-voting-elections-congress-election-2020-ea1282000b96d73298b22bf2092ba57d
Vice President Kamala Harris briefly presided over the Senate, able to break a tie in the 50-50 Senate if needed, but she left before the final vote. The rules change was rejected 52-48, with Manchin and Sinema joining the Republicans in opposition.
The nighttime voting brought an end, for now, to legislation that has been a top Democratic priority since the party took control of Congress and the White House.
“This is a moral moment,” said Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga.
The Democrats’ bill, the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, would make Election Day a national holiday, ensure access to early voting and mail-in ballots — which have become especially popular during the COVID-19 pandemic — and enable the Justice Department to intervene in states with a history of voter interference, among other changes. It has passed the House.
Both Manchin and Sinema say they support the legislation, but Democrats fell far short of the 60 votes needed to push the bill over the Republican filibuster. It failed to advance 51-49 on a largely party-line vote. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., cast a procedural vote against so the bill could be considered later.
Next, Schumer put forward a rules change for a “talking filibuster” on this one bill. It would require senators to stand at their desks and exhaust the debate before holding a simple majority vote, rather than the current practice that simply allows senators to privately signal their objections.
But that, too, failed because Manchin and Sinema were unwilling to change the Senate rules a party-line vote by Democrats alone.
Emotions were on display during the floor debate.
When Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., asked Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky whether he would pause for a question, McConnell left the chamber, refusing to respond.
Durbin said he would have asked McConnell, “Does he really believe that there's no evidence of voter suppression?"
The No. 2 Republican, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, said at one point, “I am not a racist.”
McConnell, who led his party in doing away with the filibuster’s 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court nominees during Donald Trump’s presidency, warned against changing the rules again.
McConnell derided the “fake hysteria” from Democrats over the states' new voting laws and called the pending bill a federal takeover of election systems. He admonished Democrats in a fiery speech and said doing away with filibuster rules would “break the Senate.”
Manchin drew a roomful of senators for his own speech, upstaging the president’s news conference and defending the filibuster. He said changing to a majority-rule Senate would only add to the "dysfunction that is tearing this nation apart.”
Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus walked across the Capitol for the proceedings. “We want this Senate to act today in a favorable way. But if it don’t, we ain’t giving up,” said Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., the highest-ranking Black member of Congress.
Manchin did open the door to a more tailored package of voting law changes, including to the Electoral Count Act, which was tested during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol. He said senators from both parties are working on that and it could draw Republican support.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said a bipartisan coalition should work on legislation to ensure voter access, particularly in far-flung areas like her state, and to shore up Americans’ faith in democracy.
“We don’t need, we do not need a repeat of 2020 when by all accounts our last president, having lost the election, sought to change the results,” said Murkowski.
She said the Senate debate had declined to a troubling state: “You’re either a racist or a hypocrite. Really, really? Is that where we are?”
At one point, senators broke out in applause after a spirited debate between Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, among the more experienced lawmakers, and new Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., over the history of the Voting Rights Act.
Sinema sat in her chair throughout much of the day's the debate, largely glued to her phone, but rose to her feet to deliver her vote against the rules change.
In a statement, Sinema said the outcome “must not be the end of our work to protect our democracy.” But she warned, "these challenges cannot be solved by one party or Washington alone."
Schumer contended the fight is not over and he ridiculed Republican claims that the new election laws in the states will not end up hurting voter access and turnout, comparing it to Trump’s “big lie” about the 2020 presidential election.
Democrats decided to press ahead despite the potential for high-stakes defeat as Biden is marking his first year in office with his priorities stalling out in the face of solid Republican opposition and the Democrats’ inability to unite around their own goals. They wanted to force senators on the record — even their own party’s holdouts — to show voters where they stand.
Once reluctant himself to change Senate rules, Biden has stepped up his pressure on senators to do just that. But the push from the White House, including Biden's blistering speech last week in Atlanta comparing opponents to segregationists, is seen as too late.
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Associated Press writers Farnoush Amiri and Brian Slodysko contributed to this report.
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This story has been corrected to show the name of the act tested by Jan. 6 events is the Electoral Count Act, not the Electoral College Act.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 30, 2022 8:50:21 GMT
New ‘Real World Evidence’ That GOP Voter Suppression Is Already Working 60,079 views Jan 28, 2022
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“We’re seeing massive increases in voter disenfranchisement. A 4500% increase in rejected mail ballots,” says Ari Berman on the “real world evidence” of voter suppression.
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 8, 2022 6:17:24 GMT
Oh I see. If the Cons want to steal more elections all they have to do is redistrict during the same year as an election (which is every year) and they can get away with it. The right wing bastards on the Chumpreme Court know exactly what they are doing. The LEFT had better get out and vote like they never voted before. If the right makes any advances in congress it will be decades before we get fair elections.Supreme Court sides with GOP in Alabama election map case www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-sides-gop-alabama-222009533.html MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Mon, February 7, 2022, 3:20 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court put on hold a lower court ruling that Alabama must draw new congressional districts before the 2022 elections to increase Black voting power. The high court order boosts Republican chances to hold six of the state’s seven seats in the House of Representatives. apnews.com/hub/midterm-elections
The court’s action, by a 5-4 vote announced Monday, means the upcoming elections will be conducted under a map drawn by Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature that contains one majority-Black district, represented by a Black Democrat, in a state in which more than a quarter of the population is Black.
A three-judge lower court, including two judges appointed by former President Donald Trump, had ruled that the state had likely violated the federal Voting Rights Act by diluting the political power of Black voters by not creating a second district in which they made up a majority, or close to it. apnews.com/article/voting-rights-alabama-race-and-ethnicity-legislature-redistricting-911cfdda84f55956e15a189782d319bb
Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito, part of the conservative majority, said the lower court's order for a new map came too close to the 2022 election cycle.
Chief Justice John Roberts joined his three more liberal colleagues in dissent.
The justices will at some later date decide whether the map produced by the state violates the landmark voting rights law, a case that could call into question “decades of this Court’s precedent about Section 2 of the VRA,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in dissent.
That decision presumably will govern elections in 2024 through the end of the decade in Alabama and could affect minority political representation elsewhere in the country, too.
Alabama lawmakers redrew the state’s congressional districts following the results of the 2020 census. Several groups of voters sued, arguing that the new maps diluted the voting power of Black residents.
In a unanimous ruling in late January, the three judges said that the groups were likely to succeed in showing that the state had violated the Voting Rights Act. As a result, the panel ordered lawmakers to redraw the districts so Black voters would be a majority, or close to it, in two districts, not one. The ruling ran more than 200 pages.
The panel wrote that “we do not regard the question ... as a close one.”
Alabama asked the Supreme Court to put the ruling on hold while it appeals and the justices agreed. The state argued that it drew the new map guided by race-neutral principles and that the new map is similar to past maps.
More than a dozen mostly Republican-led states had filed a brief urging the justices to side with Alabama and allow it to use the maps it originally drew.
Deuel Ross, a lawyer for Alabamians who sued, called the state's congressional districts “a textbook case of a Voting Rights Act violation” and said the high court's decision to intervene is disheartening.
But the facts are clear, Ross, a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, wrote in an email to The Associated Press. “Alabama’s current congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act,” he said. "The litigation will continue, and we are confident that Black Alabamians will eventually have the congressional map they deserve — one that fairly represents all voters.”
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall called the order a victory for the state and said he believes the state will “ultimately prevail” in the ongoing litigation.
Marshall’s office argued the state’s congressional districts are similar to those in use, and approved by the courts, since the 1990s.
Roberts, who typically votes against consideration of race, wrote that he shares some of Alabama's concerns, but still would have let the redrawn districts govern the 2022 election and have future elections governed by the ultimate outcome in the case.
Kavanaugh, writing to explain his vote, stressed that the court has repeatedly declined in the past to change the rules close to an election.
“When an election is close at hand, the rules of the road must be clear and settled. Late judicial tinkering with election laws can lead to disruption and to unanticipated and unfair consequences for candidates, political parties, and voters, among others. It is one thing for a State on its own to toy with its election laws close to a State’s elections. But it is quite another thing for a federal court to swoop in and re-do a State’s election laws in the period close to an election,” he wrote in an opinion Alito joined.
Taking issue with Kavanaugh, Kagan noted that the lower court ruled months before any votes will be cast.
She criticized the conservatives for using the emergency application process known as the shadow docket "to signal or make changes in the law, without anything approaching full briefing and argument.”
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Associated Press writer Kimberly Chandler in Montgomery, Alabama, contributed to this report.
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 19, 2022 14:25:17 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 25, 2022 5:46:13 GMT
Dark Money Is Funding America’s Voter Suppression 11,078 views Jun 16, 2021
AJ+ 1.11M subscribers Why are Republicans limiting voting rights across the country? In Biden’s first 100 days alone, statehouse Republicans introduced more than 360 bills that place new restrictions on the right to vote. Georgia and Florida were among the first to pass these so-called “election integrity” bills. Even before Donald Trump’s presidency, Republicans have been enacting laws that suppress voters for decades, and these restrictions disproportionately impact communities of color. Their newest round of laws goes even further than the voter ID laws of the past, and they’ve been written by a network of think tanks and dark money groups.
We spoke to Mother Jones reporter Ari Berman and New Georgia Project CEO Nsé Ufot about these laws and what the path forward is for protecting voters.
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In a private meeting last month with big-money donors, the head of a top conservative group boasted that her outfit had crafted the new voter suppression law in Georgia and was doing the same with similar bills for Republican state legislators across the country. “In some cases, we actually draft them for them,” she said, “or we have a sentinel on our behalf give them the model legislation so it has that grassroots, from-the-bottom-up type of vibe.”
The Georgia law had “eight key provisions that Heritage recommended,” Jessica Anderson, the executive director of Heritage Action for America, a sister organization of the Heritage Foundation, told the foundation’s donors at an April 22 gathering in Tucson, in a recording obtained by the watchdog group Documented and shared with Mother Jones. Those included policies severely restricting mail ballot drop boxes, preventing election officials from sending absentee ballot request forms to voters, making it easier for partisan workers to monitor the polls, preventing the collection of mail ballots, and restricting the ability of counties to accept donations from nonprofit groups seeking to aid in election administration.
All of these recommendations came straight from Heritage’s list of “best practices” drafted in February. With Heritage’s help, Anderson said, Georgia became “the example for the rest of the country.”
The leaked video reveals the extent to which Heritage is leading a massive campaign to draft and pass model legislation restricting voting access, which has been swiftly adopted this year in the battleground states of Georgia, Florida, Arizona, and Iowa. It’s no coincidence that so many GOP-controlled states are rushing to pass similar pieces of legislation in such a short period of time.
Mother Jones Senior Reporter Ari Berman breaks down the video here. And for the full investigation, co-bylined by Documented's Nick Surgey, head to motherjones.com.
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Mother Jones obtained leaked video in which an executive of a conservative group appears to brag about helping write voter restriction bills to give them a grassroots "vibe."
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 8, 2022 3:03:35 GMT
RepubliCONservatives trying to steal elections any which way they can CONTINUES.Reuters U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Republicans in electoral map disputes www.yahoo.com/news/u-supreme-court-rebuffs-republicans-221721475.html Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley Mon, March 7, 2022, 3:17 PM By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let North Carolina and Pennsylvania use electoral maps approved by state courts to replace ones deemed to have given Republicans unfair advantages, improving Democratic chances of retaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November.
The justices denied Republican requests to put on hold lower court rulings that adopted court-drawn boundaries for North Carolina's 14 House districts and Pennsylvania's 17 House districts to replace electoral maps devised by Republican-controlled legislatures in the two states.
Republicans are seeking to regain control of the House, narrowly controlled by President Joe Biden's fellow Democrats, in the Nov. 8 midterm elections. Party primaries in Pennsylvania and North Carolina are set for May 17.
The court has a 6-3 conservative majority. Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented from the action concerning North Carolina.
The North Carolina and Pennsylvania disputes are among the numerous court battles nationwide over the composition of electoral districts, which are redrawn each decade to reflect population changes measured in a national census, last taken in 2020.
In most states, such redistricting is done by the party in power, which can lead to map manipulation for partisan gain. The Supreme Court in 2019 barred federal judges from curbing the practice, called partisan gerrymandering.
LEGAL DOCTRINE
The cases touch upon a once-marginal legal theory called the "independent state legislature doctrine" that is gaining traction in conservative legal circles and, if accepted, would vastly increase the power of politicians over elections. Under that doctrine, the U.S. Constitution gives legislatures, not state courts or other entities, authority over election rules including the drawing of electoral districts.
The North Carolina Republican lawmakers challenging the court-drawn map placed the theory front and center, writing in a court filing: "The North Carolina courts have usurped (the legislature's) constitutional authority."
Alito said the justices should have blocked the court-drawn map.
"This case presents an exceptionally important and recurring question of constitutional law, namely, the extent of a state court's authority to reject rules adopted by a state legislature for use in conducting federal elections," Alito wrote.
The doctrine is based in part on language in the Constitution stating that the "times, places and manner" of federal elections "shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof."
Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh indicated sympathy toward the views of the dissenters but said it was too close to the election to block the maps. But Kavanaugh added that the court should take up the underlying legal issue in due course.
The opinions by Kavanaugh and Alito indicated that the court has the four votes needed to take up the doctrine and issue a ruling potentially limiting state court authority to review federal election rules set by state legislatures ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
It remains unclear if a majority of the justices would embrace such a ruling.
"Today's orders are temporary good news, but statements from four of the justices are ominous for the ability of state courts to uphold the right to vote under state constitutions," voting rights expert Josh Douglas of the University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law, wrote on Twitter.
Bob Phillips, executive director of Common Cause North Carolina, a group defending the state's new districts, called Monday's action a victory.
"We're pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the legislative defendants' shameless attempt to impose their gerrymandered congressional map upon North Carolina," Phillips said.
The North Carolina Supreme Court, acting after Democratic voters and an environmental group challenged the Republican-drawn map, struck it down, concluding it was intentionally biased against Democrats, diluting their "fundamental right to equal voting power" in violation of the state constitution's free elections and freedom of assembly provisions, among others.
A lower state court then rejected a redrawn map submitted by the legislature, instead adopting a new map drawn by a bipartisan group of experts. According to some redistricting analysts, the court-approved map includes seven districts likely to favor Republicans, six likely to favor Democrats and one competitive seat.
In Pennsylvania, Democratic Governor Tom Wolf vetoed a map approved by the legislature, saying the configuration of House districts gave Republicans an unfair advantage.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, acting on a lawsuit filed by Democratic voters, approved a new map that eliminated one Republican-leaning district approved by the legislature and, Republicans have argued, created a statewide map advantageous to Democrats.
(Reporting by Andrew Chung in New York and Lawrence Hurley in Washington; Editing by Will Dunham)
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 9, 2022 0:26:42 GMT
Republicans have grabbed onto a new strategy: Asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn fair-map decisions.
It's what they did in Alabama, leading to the Supreme Court's decision that allowed a delay of the redrawing of gerrymandered maps until AFTER the 2022 election.
And in Georgia, a federal court relied on the SCOTUS decision to delay the redrawing of maps in that state as well.
These are two disappointing developments, but they're only one piece of the full picture. Will you pitch in to help us keep working to end Republican gerrymandering nationwide, no matter what it takes?
Republicans in Pennsylvania and North Carolina also asked SCOTUS to intervene in their states. Fortunately those requests were denied and the 2022 elections in these states will be held on the new, fair maps. But here’s why A.G. Holder said we can’t rest in our fight to protect democracy from power-hungry Republicans:
“This time they were stopped, but their cravenness has been put on display, and we will not rest on our heels in the fight to protect our democracy.”
The fight for fair redistricting across the country is far from over. We really need you to stick with us. Republicans are fighting tooth and nail to hang on to their manipulated maps across the country.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 31, 2022 7:03:41 GMT
Arizona Republicans enact a controversial new proof-of-citizenship voting law www.npr.org/2022/03/30/1089809421/arizona-republicans-enact-a-controversial-new-proof-of-citizenship-voting-law March 30, 20227:13 PM ET BEN GILES
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Republican Gov. Doug Ducey applauds new House members during his State of the State address on Jan. 10 at the Arizona Capitol. Republican state House Speaker Rusty Bowers and Republican Senate President Karen Fann flank Ducey. Ross D. Franklin/AP
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Wednesday signed legislation to expand U.S. citizenship voting requirements in the state, a measure that critics warn will jeopardize the voter registrations of thousands of Arizona residents.
In signing House Bill 2492, Ducey disputed testimony from local officials and voting rights advocates who say an unknown number of voters — predominantly older, longtime Arizona residents — will be purged from the state's voter rolls because the last time they registered to vote, there was no requirement to provide proof of citizenship. Critics say those voters would then need to register again. www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2492H.pdf
In 2004, Arizona voters approved a ballot measure to add proof of citizenship as a requirement for voter registration. The measure included language that grandfathered in voters who were already registered prior to 2005, when the law took effect. apps.azsos.gov/election/2004/info/PubPamphlet/english/prop200.htm
Marilyn Rodriguez, a lobbyist for the ACLU of Arizona, said HB 2492 supersedes the old law and would now apply the citizenship requirement retroactively.
"So many thousands of eligible voters could lose access to the polls based on specific and targeted criteria," she told the state Senate Government Committee earlier this month. "This bill singles out older voters, on average, and people who have lived in Arizona for a longer amount of time."
County election officials agree, and testified that they'll have to pore over voter registration databases to see who's affected by the change. They say they have no way of knowing exactly the number of impacted voters until they start looking.
One estimate put the tally as high as 192,000 voters. That's the number of Arizonans who were issued a state driver's license prior to 1996 — when the state updated its credentialing process to ensure a driver's lawful presence in the United States — and have not altered their license since, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.
The timing of when the law takes effect — 90 days after the end of the legislative session — may create even more problems for election officials. Depending on when the session ends, the law could be in place before the state's August primary, or in between the primary and November general election — creating a situation in which voters who cast a ballot in August may no longer be eligible in November.
But in a letter explaining his decision to sign the legislation, Ducey argued the bill "does not disturb the safe harbor granted to Arizona voters" who registered before the state's citizenship requirement was adopted.
"Election integrity means counting every lawful vote and prohibiting any attempt to illegally cast a vote," Ducey wrote. "H.B. 2492 is a balanced approach that honors Arizona's history of making voting accessible without sacrificing security in our elections."
Questions of constitutionality
At its core, HB 2492 is a new attempt to apply citizenship standards to all voters in Arizona, including those who use a federal voter registration form prepared by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. That form requires voters to check a box declaring under penalty of perjury that they're U.S. citizens and eligible to vote — but it doesn't require documented proof of citizenship, like Arizona does.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that Arizona couldn't impose a proof-of-citizenship requirement on voters who register with the federal form. The state has since created a bifurcated voting system that allows federally registered voters to cast ballots in federal elections, but not state or local races.
Republican lawmakers have bemoaned an increase in those federal-only voters — more than 11,600 cast a ballot in the 2020 general election, according to Ducey — and made several attempts over the years to restrict their access to the ballot.
The latest effort, signed by Ducey Wednesday, requires election officials to research the citizenship status of those federal-only voters. Under HB 2492, if elections officials can't find evidence that a federally registered voter is a U.S. citizen, that voter can't vote by mail, or cast a vote in presidential elections.
And if election officials find evidence a federally registered voter is not a citizen, the Arizona attorney general would be required to prosecute.
Jen Marson, the executive director of the Arizona Association of Counties, told a Senate committee that HB 2492 puts county election workers in a "terrible position" — choosing to follow a state law that clearly violates a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, or uphold the court's ruling and be charged with felonies under Arizona law.
Even attorneys for the Republican-controlled Arizona legislature warn those measures are likely unconstitutional.
"It's a very clear decision," Marson testified about the Supreme Court ruling. "It's very emphatic and it absolutely nullifies the provisions of [House Bill] 2492. Counties cannot violate federal law."
The new law is expected to face legal challenges, and could perhaps face the scrutiny of a more conservative U.S. Supreme Court than in 2013.
The GOP-backed legislation follows a discredited partisan-led review of the 2020 election in Arizona's largest county, Maricopa. Last year, the state's Republicans enacted sweeping changes to Arizona's early voting process, and stripped some of the election authority from the Democratic secretary of state. www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1040327483/the-controversial-election-review-in-arizona-confirms-bidens-win www.npr.org/2021/05/11/995998370/arizona-republicans-enact-sweeping-changes-to-states-early-voting-list www.npr.org/2021/06/30/1011154122/arizona-republicans-strip-some-election-power-from-democratic-secretary-of-state
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 11, 2022 21:14:05 GMT
the AZ GOP has once again passed another voter suppression law, this time targeting Native voters.
This latest law requires a “proof of citizenship” and a physical address, tactics that in other states have led to large numbers of Native voters' ballots being challenged and thrown out. Native leaders are already speaking up about this new law working to suppress Native votes.
The AZ GOP continues to pass voter suppression laws under the lies that the 2020 election was full of fraud.
The reality is the AZ GOP knows we’re on the verge of flipping AZ completely blue, and they are passing these laws to try and ensure victories in November.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 17, 2022 7:14:58 GMT
Why GOP Plans For New Mexico Should Scare you! Featuring Greg Palast
2,522 views Jun 16, 2022 In New Mexico, one county did not certify the results of their June primary election. Now there will be a court case to override the override.
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 6, 2022 15:26:06 GMT
despite ALL the evidence of RepubliCONservative election shenanigans and election theft the GOP RepubliCONservative Propaganda arm pushes this message:On Conservative Radio, Misleading Message Is Clear: 'Democrats Cheat' www.yahoo.com/news/conservative-radio-misleading-message-clear-114542946.html Stuart A. Thompson Wed, July 6, 2022 at 7:45 AM
Election fraud claims from 2020 are widespread on talk radio, contributing to the belief that the midterm results cannot be trusted. (Christian Northeast/The New York Times)
November’s midterm elections are still months away, but to many conservative commentators, the fix is already in. Democrats have cheated before, they say, and they will cheat again.
Never mind that the claims are false.
In Lafayette, Louisiana, Carol Ross, host of “The Ross Report,” questioned how Democrats could win a presidential election again after a tumultuous few years in power. “They’re going to have to cheat again,” she said. “You know that. There will be rampant cheating.”
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In Greenville, South Carolina, Charlie James, a host on 106.3 WORD, read from a blog post arguing that “the Democrats are going to lose a majority during the midterm elections unless they’re able to cheat in a massive wide-scale way.”
And on WJFN in Virginia, Steve Bannon, the erstwhile adviser to former President Donald Trump who was indicted on a charge of refusing to comply with subpoenas issued by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, summed it up this way: “If Democrats don’t cheat, they don’t win.”
Trump introduced the nation to a flurry of false claims about widespread voter fraud after his electoral loss in 2020. The extent of his efforts has been outlined extensively in the past couple of weeks during the hearings on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — including a speech that day in which he falsely said Democrats changed voting laws “because they want to cheat.”
Republican politicians and cable outlets like Fox News have carried the torch for Trump’s conspiracy theories ever since. But the loudest and most consistent booster of these unfounded claims has been talk radio, where conservative hosts reduce the jumble of false voter fraud theories into a two-word mantra: “Democrats cheat.”
Mentions of “Democrats cheating” and similar ideas were raised more than 5,000 times on syndicated radio shows and local broadcasts this year, according to an analysis of data from Critical Mention, a media monitoring service. Similar ideas were mentioned a few hundred times on television shows and podcasts tracked by Critical Mention during the same period.
Radio remains perhaps the most influential conduit for right-wing thought, despite the rise of podcasts and social media. Tens of millions of people nationwide, especially older Americans and blue-collar workers, listen to it regularly. Misinformation experts warn that talk radio channels, many of which air political commentary 24 hours a day, receive far too little scrutiny compared to other mass media. Talk radio is also uniquely difficult to analyze and harder to moderate, because the on-air musings from hosts usually disappear over the airwaves in an instant.
“Liberals or even most moderates never listen to it, they don’t pay attention to it, they don’t see it, they don’t hear it,” said Lewis A. Friedland, a professor who studies radio at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “So you don’t know it exists, you don’t know how widespread and how powerful it really is.” In Wisconsin, he said, local radio stations play “extreme right-wing propaganda” five or six hours a day.
Asked about the false statements, James, the host of “The Charlie James Show,” and other conservative radio hosts and their networks defended them. Many pointed to examples of voter fraud in the past or raised conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. They said bleak polling results for the Democrats raised alarms about the integrity of the midterm elections.
“I think a host, guest or caller on talk radio might be forgiven wondering if ‘cheating’ might not be needed to win,” said Tom Tradup, the vice president for news and talk programming at the Christian and conservative Salem Radio Network.
Other hosts and radio networks declined to comment or did not respond to requests for comment.
Liberal commentators have also claimed Republicans cheated or will cheat again, but to a far lesser extent. After Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor in Georgia, lost in 2018, Democrats raised doubts about the election’s integrity, citing voter suppression. A petition that received nearly 60,000 signatures after the election was titled “Don’t Let Georgia Republicans Cheat and Steal the Governor’s Mansion From Stacey Abrams.”
As Abrams campaigns for the office again this year, conservative radio hosts have painted her efforts to improve voter access, particularly for historically disenfranchised groups, as a way to enable cheating.
“This is why Stacey Abrams is doing this in the state of Georgia — to extend the time, the amount of time that people can vote and drop off ballots,” said Jennifer Kerns, a guest on “The Joe Piscopo Show” and host on the All-American Radio network. “It gives them more time to — as you and I aren’t allowed to say — cheat.”
When shows like “The Joe Piscopo Show” are distributed by major syndicators like Sinclair Broadcast Group or Premiere Networks, a single falsehood or misleading claim can quickly reach audiences from coast to coast.
Mike Gallagher said on his radio show recently that “the only way the Democrats can expect to win again is if they cheat.” The show was syndicated through the Salem Radio Network, allowing it to reach hundreds of markets from Sacramento, California, to Salisbury, Maryland.
Many of the misleading claims focused on measures to improve voter access during the 2020 presidential election as the coronavirus swept the country. Conservative commentators said attempts to expand vote-by-mail options or ballot drop-off locations were tantamount to cheating or directly enabled cheating.
Some radio networks cracked down on election fraud claims after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Cumulus Media, which owns and operates 406 radio stations, released a memo at the time saying hosts could not “dog-whistle talk about ‘stolen elections’” on its network. More than a year later, several shows distributed through Westwood One, its syndication arm, have aired claims that Democrats cheated or will cheat in the midterms.
Michael Knowles, a radio and podcast host syndicated through Westwood One, gave a stark warning about the midterm elections. “They’re just going to try to cheat and steal the election,” he said. “That’s what they’re going to try to do. You’re seeing it right now.”
Lars Larson, another radio host syndicated to over 100 stations through Westwood One, warned that the increasing popularity of mail-in voting meant “Democrats nearly always win — or, at least, they cheat to a win.”
After Trump lost his reelection bid, many false attacks focused on Dominion Voting Systems, an election technology company falsely accused of tampering with election results. Mentions of the company plummeted after January 2021, as the company filed a lawsuit accusing several groups, including Fox News, of advancing lies that devastated its reputation and business. But radio hosts continued implying that Democrats would cheat by expanding mail-in voting or conducting so-called ballot harvesting, a law in many states allowing third parties to collect and return ballots.
“You don’t get as specific as a particular company so they can’t come back and sue you,” said Jerry Del Colliano, a professor at New York University and publisher of Inside Music Media. He added that the shift in strategy toward vaguer cheating claims “allows them to continue with this misinformation that their audience just loves” without risking serious consequences from companies or their syndicators.
That leaves many hosts walking the line between detailing specific claims of stolen elections and rankling advertisers or executives.
“I hesitate to talk about it,” actor Joe Piscopo said on his radio show. “You can’t say ‘election,’ and then you can’t say the word ‘fraud’ right after that. But you can say it was bought, there were shenanigans. I have catchphrases, like ‘shenanigans’ or ‘we’re not sure what happened.’”
When a listener called into “The Lars Larson Show” to suggest that Republicans could cheat to keep up with Democratic cheating, Larson expressed mixed feelings.
“My gut says yes to that,” he replied. “My brain says no.”
In an interview, Larson pointed to numerous voter fraud claims from the 2020 election, including a debunked report that nearly 20,000 votes were received late in Arizona. He added that the lack of proof was expected because “with election fraud, especially vote-by-mail, you’ll never have proof.”
Unlike television or even podcasts, radio welcomes live listener input. That can give anyone a moment in the national spotlight for off-the-cuff remarks and build the appearance of consensus for election conspiracy theories. Some of the strongest claims of voter fraud came from callers, with hosts often agreeing with their claims.
“There’s no penalty for having these people on the air,” Friedland at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said of the callers. “In fact, there’s a benefit. Your business does better if you can skirt the extremes, because that gets more people calling in and listening.”
As the midterms draw near, commentators are also contending with the unintended consequences of their cheating claims.
Callers repeatedly expressed doubts about voting at all, falsely claiming that elections are so rigged by Democrats that their votes no longer matter. In response, radio hosts have implored Republicans to vote in even larger numbers — so much so that a supposed Democratic cheat would prove ineffective.
“I’ll tell you what’s happened — and I give the Democrats a lot of credit for this,” said Michael Berry, a radio host based in Houston, “is they have convinced a lot of people on our side that it’s not worth it to vote.”
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