Speaking of which…
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Keep your eyes on Louisiana tonight. It’s a nail biter, and if it goes blue, no doubt the president will try to help the Republican steal the election. He was here twice in the last month.
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So the Secretary of State, who campaigned for the Republican candidate for gov, was re-elected by 30%. In a governor run-off race that came down to 1% for the incumbent. Suspicious.
Also, the website operate by him that shows polling places went down for ~4 hours today, election day.
Hmmmmmmmm.
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Worse, 240,000 other voters were purged from rolls in Wisconsin this week after they did not respond to a mailer asking to verify their address within 30 days. And in Ohio, a crucial swing state, 180,000 voters’ registrations were purged for a similar reason back in September.
In total, a report by the Brennan Center for Justice estimates that 17 million people have been purged between 2016 and 2018, including half a million Georgia residents who were already purged back in July 2017.
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Indiana’s purge rate was 20–25 percent
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It is likely that Mason’s name had been struck from the voter rolls because she had been incarcerated. Once Mason finished serving her five-year sentence for tax fraud, she was put on what is called “federal supervised release,” a set of reëntry requirements for ex-felons coming out of a federal prison. Texas prohibits felons on parole, probation, or what it calls “supervision” from voting. But, as Tommy Buser-Clancy, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas who is working on Mason’s appeal, told me, “Individuals under federal supervised release have completed the entire term of their incarceration.” Parole, probation, and community supervision, on the other hand, are continuations of an initial sentence. “The mere fact that the two terms“—supervision and federal supervised release—“use somewhat similar language does not provide a basis for criminal liability,” Buser-Clancy and his colleagues wrote in their appellate brief. “In the correct context, the meaning of each is entirely different.” That is to say, Mason’s future may come down to the legal interpretation of a single word.
When Mason got out of prison in 2016, no one informed her that being on federal supervised release rendered her ineligible to vote. “The whole time I was at the halfway house, we had to take reëntry classes,” she said. “At the end of the day, no one gave us the information that we couldn’t vote. . . . They only started telling people that in 2019. It’s almost like they were setting us up to fail.
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Speaking of Florida:
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Fucking Florida. Jim Crow 2.0
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Oregon has been getting inquiries about our low-tech, easy to use, efficient vote-by-mail system.
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Meanwhile…
#whatstheworstthatcouldhappen
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The rats are fucking in public again.
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Insult to rats, etc. Damn, these people are not the democrats I remember.
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