Surprise, surprise.
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Follow up… you all need to watch the full video. It’s worth your time.
I’m also posting it over at the other place.
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“I’m concerned about voter registration in Mississippi,” the commissioner wrote. “The blacks are having lots (of) events for voter registration. People in Mississippi have to get involved, too.”
Oh, but she recognized her real error:
She said in an interview Monday that she thought she was sending a private message, but the comment was shared publicly on Facebook.
“This was an error on my part,” she said.
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Which was the error, asshat, the racist comment or sharing it publicly?
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I realize this thread was intended for threats to US voting, but this is something to keep in mind.
“Those who have organised, planned or participated in the primary election should be wary and avoid carelessly violating the law,” Erick Tsang, the Secretary for Mainland and Constitutional Affairs, told the Sing Tao Daily newspaper.
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So today I got a new Center for Voter Information mailing… this time it was extremely neutral, unless with Trump’s loopiness you can count strongly encouraging vote-by-mail as being partisan. Basically just a statement about using mail ballots in the upcoming election being encouraged, and an absentee ballot request form partially filled out for me. I haven’t really decided whether I’m going to do mail or risk in-person voting, but I’m glad that the first contact of this kind I got didn’t have Trump’s face on it.
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Some good news:
The decision was handed down the same day another federal judge in Indiana held voters cannot be removed from the state’s voting rolls without notification.
Sounds pretty common-sense, but of course that won’t stop the rulings from being challenged…
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Yes. That actually sounds fair. What is this country coming to?
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So I’m not sure if this is voter suppression, or what, but I just realized we don’t have primaries in Louisiana.
I was noticing that the state Democratic party was retweeting one Senate candidate exclusively, and I was like “Did I miss a primary???” Then I found out that the way it works here is the Democratic Senate Congressional Committee (DSCC) picks the candidate they prefer and treats them as the presumptive nominee. So there will be 3 Democrats on the ballot Nov. 3, along with the Repub and the Independents. If no candidate gets 50%, there’s a runoff.
So there’s effectively no chance for the party to choose one candidate and coalesce around them, which means basically no chance of mounting a true opposition to Senator Bill Cassidy. What the fuck.
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I’d guess some of this is an outcome of the old “solid south” structures of the political parties in the south during Jim Crow and part of the legacy of Huey Long.
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Well, that makes sense, rather than requiring voters to try to guess how far in advance they need to mail it in. But, of course:
The secretary of state’s office plans to immediately appeal the ruling.
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Look for more of this bullshit (and LE ignoring it) for the next couple months.
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Since I can’t use phones, do they have an accessible alternative contact?
To make sure you are registered and get your mail in ballot (which you can deliver in person), go to www.vote.org
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Burkman, an Arlington, Virginia resident, and Wohl, a Los Angeles, California resident, allegedly attempted to discourage voters from participating in the general election by creating and funding a robocall targeted at certain urban areas, including Detroit. The calls were made in late August and went out to nearly 12,000 residents with phone numbers from the 313 area code.
During its investigation, Nessel’s office communicated with attorneys general offices in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, all of which reported similar robocalls being made to residents in their states who live in urban areas with significant minority populations. It’s believed around 85,000 calls were made nationally, though an exact breakdown of the numbers of calls to each city or state are not available.
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The recorded robocall message warns people about being “finessed into giving your private information to the man” and urges them to “beware of vote by mail.”
The caller, who claims to be associated with an organization founded by Burkman and Wohl, falsely tells people that mail-in voting, in particular, will allow personal information to become part of a special database used by police to track down old warrants and by credit card companies to collect outstanding debts. The caller also deceptively claims the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will use the information to track people for mandatory vaccines. However, none of that is true.
And, since their names might not be immediately recognizeable despite their previous antics:
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