Voter suppression
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-emails-alachua-county-proud-boys-trump-overseas-servers/ Emails threatening Florida voters to "vote for Trump or else!" linked to overseas servers... |
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We’re just 11 days away from Election Day!
Here's what happened this week: Where We're Winning North Carolina: After months of litigation and struggle, we finally won our Four Pillars case in North Carolina. On Monday, the North Carolina Court of Appeals dissolved the Republicans’ temporary stay of our agreement with the State Board, which extended the ballot receipt deadline, allowed ballot drop-off stations at each early voting location and county board, and instituted revised cure guidance. The next day, the Fourth Circuit denied both of the Republicans’ federal emergency injunction motions, and upheld the State Board’s extension of the receipt deadline. Republicans appealed both the decisions to the North Carolina Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. We will continue to defend voting rights in both cases. Pennsylvania: On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Pennsylvania Republicans’ emergency application for a stay. Their 4-4 decision preserved the win in our complimentary Pennsylvania Four Pillars case, keeping the 3-day extension of the ballot receipt deadline. New Jersey: Yesterday, a New Jersey court granted our motion to dismiss Trump and the Republicans' lawsuit attacking vote by mail. The lawsuit challenged Governor Murphy’s plan to use a hybrid voting model in November. We intervened as defendants on behalf of the DCCC and won. Where We're Fighting South Carolina: We filed a new lawsuit this week, challenging South Carolina’s failure to inform voters when their ballots are rejected without any opportunity to correct or “cure” the mistake. Pennsylvania: Yesterday, we intervened in another Republican attack on voting rights in Pennsylvania. Two Republican congressional candidates sued to invoke a non-existent right to poll watch in satellite early voting sites. They also asked for the ability to challenge 28,000 voters even though the challenge process for mail-in and absentee ballots was specifically abolished by the Pennsylvania Legislature earlier this year. We intervened as defendants on behalf of the DCCC and the Democratic incumbent in the district, Representative Lamb. ICYMI As we get closer to Election Day, Democracy Docket is publishing need-to-know explainers on all things voting. If you plan to vote in person, make sure to read our “Know Your Rights” explainer, which outlines the rights you have at the polls. Some of these rights include the right to stay in line, the right to an accessible polling place and the right to a paper ballot. Yesterday, we published our latest explainer all about tracking your ballot. Ballot tracking can’t stop when you mail back your ballot. Election laws like signature matching, secrecy envelopes and witness requirements could cause your ballot to be rejected. While many states notify you if your ballot is challenged, you should check the status of your vote, in case you miss a call or email requesting you to fix your ballot. To ensure your vote is counted, you should continually check the status of your ballot. You can find your state’s ballot tracker here. What Bode’s Barking About There is a reason Republicans target their voter suppression efforts toward minority and young voters: they have the power to change the outcome of an election. As Axios wrote this week, “Legal barriers have contributed to limiting voter turnout among people of color. But if people of color voted at the rate of white voters, it would immediately alter who gets elected and what policies they pursue.” Voting early is one of the best ways to ensure your ballot will count in November. As the Washington Post wrote, “Even if early votes are not additive to totals on Nov. 3, getting Democrats to cast votes now may be the most successful anti-suppression voting effort the party has ever waged.” Our fight for voting rights must continue past November 3rd. In fact, it is likely that the outcome of the 2020 election could come down to decisions made in the courts. As Time wrote, “The majority of cases grapple with mundane details, like voting deadlines and ballot envelopes, but taken together they carry outsized importance—and not just because they determine how many ballots get tallied and whose votes count.” |
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| This might be hidden somewhere in this thread but does anyone have good sources to donate money/ resources/ time for organizations that combat voter supression? |
Anonymous
Every fraudulent vote disenfranchises a legal voter. That’s not defensible. |
Anonymous
Way to miss the point. Systemic voter suppression disenfranchises a whole lot more voters. |
Anonymous
Systemic voter suppression is fake news. Thanks for not thinking critically and just repeating what you see on Comedy Central. |
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You repeat "fake news" and you think others are replaying old comedies? |
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I don’t watch Comedy Central. Read this whole thread and the links in it. And it’s the widespread voter fraud that’s fake news, champ. |
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Democracy Docket |
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Marc Elias’ recent op-Ed
October 26, 2020 By Marc Elias For the last few years, I have had the honor and privilege to wake up every day with a single purpose—to fight for voting rights for all and to ensure every lawful ballot is counted. Even as our nation is gripped by a global pandemic, a struggling economy, and a president spreading lies and disinformation about voting, we continue to fight in courtrooms around the country to ensure fair elections. Our victories this election cycle have included striking down unfair voter ID laws, ensuring voters are not disenfranchised based on the consistency of their signatures, and extending absentee ballot receipt deadlines. We have ensured voters can fix technical errors on their mail-in ballots and can utilize community ballot collection at a time of increasingly unreliable mail service. We successfully fought to undo Republican dirty tricks to mislead voters. We blocked Republican efforts to ban ballot drop boxes, reduce mail-in voting, and increase challengers at the polls. We unrigged maps drawn to advance purely partisan interests and struck down racial gerrymanders disadvantaging Black voters. We sued red states and blue states. We settled with Republican election officials where it helped voters and fought with Democratic officials when we thought they were wrong. We did not win every case or prevent every act of voter suppression. In some cases, we failed entirely. In others, we achieved only partial success. As a whole, we won more than we lost and more than I expected when I first started writing about our efforts. We can’t give up on the courts. Help stand up to protect voting rights! Each loss is painful, really painful. Each time we failed to convince a judge, it felt like we failed voters. Each time we lost a case, voters lost their voice in our democracy. I live with that every day. To stay accountable, I publish on the front page of Democracy Docket, in real time, our total case count and where we have had a positive impact. In the run-up to the Election, I tweet the same information every single day. When we win a case, I still wonder whether we are doing enough to protect voters. When we lose a case, I despair about what we could have done differently. As we get closer to the election, I sense an increasing impulse among many progressives to simply give up on the courts. I fully understand the anxiety that people feel right now. I know how big the stakes are. And I am not blind to the effect Trump and Senator McConnell have had on our federal judiciary—including the Supreme Court. The question is what do we do today as our democracy hangs in the balance? Unlike some, I don’t have the luxury of giving up, or being a critic. I cannot retreat, reassess, and defer the fight for another day. With elections upon us, I cannot avoid litigating consequential cases with important outcomes. Nor would I want to. It is the honor of my life to be able to stand up in court and fight for every lawful vote to be counted—particularly votes our election system too often discards with little thought. I have no use for the professional cynics, who throw verbal stones from the sidelines and relish the opportunity to say, “all is lost.” And for those who urge that we move cautiously, wait, and reassess, I ask: For how long and at what cost? How many ballots do we permit to remain uncounted before we fight for them in court? How many elections do we allow to pass without fair rules for voters? The most common question I am asked is, “What people can do to help?” Here is my answer: start by rejecting the cynics and naysayers. We cannot allow the fear of losing in court deter us from fighting hard for justice. We must be willing to win or lose under the glare of an attentive public. If we are afraid to stand up and challenge what we know is wrong, we only embolden the spread of voter suppression. And if we sit back, biding our time for a better moment to fight, the message to voters will be clear: you are on your own for now. More than 50 years ago, the Supreme Court affirmed that eligible citizens have a constitutional right to vote and “to have their votes counted.” “No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.” Now more than ever, we must stand up to protect voting rights and ensure every vote is counted. |