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The plan is working!Anybody else smell a lawsuit?
Anybody else smell a lawsuit?
Milwaukee population in 2018 - 591,961Wisconsin Elections Commissioner stands by voting comments
Spindell, who is white, says in the email that Republicans “can be especially proud of the City of Milwaukee (80.2% Dem Vote) casting 37,000 less votes than cast in the 2018 election with the major reduction happening in the overwhelming Black and Hispanic areas.”
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Note, he's not saying that Milwaukee voters switched from D to R, just that fewer people in Milwaukee voted at all (especially in the black and brown parts of town). This is what has him beaming with pride.
That's a short period of time.Democrats scramble to reach voters after Florida cancels mail-in ballot requests
Democrats in the state say the change disproportionately affects their voters, who have embraced mail-in voting more than Republicans since 2020, when then-President Donald Trump falsely claimed mail-in voting was rife with fraud. [In the past] Florida Republicans had long bested Democrats in the state with mail-in voters, but in recent years Democrats invested in promoting mail-in voting.
It does seem that the Republican party is so connected with the support there is for Trump, now. What is curious to consider is how well the party will do whenever Trump is gone. It might be declining.
That was what was predicted some time in the early 2000's. Trump brought a certain charisma or style that attracted alot of what used to be called "low information voters" to the Republican party. Alot of these types of people, if they voted at all, were swing voters.
The GOP Is Pushing to Depress Student Voting
Almost a quarter million voters turned out in Dane, home of University of Wisconsin, for a spring special election — [more than Milwaukee]. A staggering 82 percent of Dane voters cast ballots to elevate liberal Judge Janet Protasiewicz to the state Supreme Court.
Coming on the heels of the 2022 midterms — when Wisconsin led the nation in youth turnout in the country — the GOP judicial candidate’s April humiliation stunned the party. Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker put it plainly: “Young people are the issue.”
[Surely the GOP will reflect on why its policies do not appeal to young voters and seek to engage them with conservative ideas geared toward the concerns of the youth!]
Across the country this year, targeted efforts to disenfranchise student voters have ramped up as election after election proved just how critical the bloc is to guarantee Democratic victories. With encouragement from influential GOP operatives, those efforts — which met with middling success in ‘23 — are poised to escalate in 2024.
[Oh well!]
Hess points to GOP efforts over the past several years to make it harder to register, eliminate drop boxes, shorten early voting, increase residency requirements, and reduce polling locations — mostly in Madison and Milwaukee.
Months after their April routing, party functionaries at the Wisconsin GOP’s convention mulled a resolution demanding college students to vote absentee in their hometowns
In New Hampshire, House Republicans introduced a bill that would have prohibited any college students who pay out-of-state tuition from voting
The same month, a GOP lawmaker in Texas introduced a bill that would ban polling places at colleges and universities.
In Idaho ... a law set to go into effect Jan. 1, which bans the use of student IDs to register to vote or cast a ballot, is being challenged in lawsuits
I grew up in rural Kansas and my mother worked the polls at the local county courthouse for the Democratic Primaries and for the general elections. It is a different paradigm than Los Angelos. There are so few voters that the poll workers would wonder when someone didn't show up to vote. If that person was elderly, they usually got a visit or a phone call in the next couple of days just to make sure they were OK. This isn't to say that the participation was any better, just that people noticed when you didn't vote.Kansas Constitution does not include a right to vote, state Supreme Court majority says
“It simply is not there,” [Justice] Stegall wrote.
I mean, maybe he's right. Sounds like something the voters of Kansas should fix.
Oh wait, Kansas is one of the far-too-many states that doesn't allow voters to put state initiatives on the ballot.
I guess they'll have to rely on the legislators to fix this oversight.
In context, this was about various complex aspects of new voting laws passed in the state. New restrictions on accepting ballots were challenged as being contrary to Kansans right to vote. The supreme court effectively said that challenge is dead, since there isn't such a right, and the state can restrict elections in at least some ways.So I don't think this judge's opinion or whether there is an explicit right to vote will change a thing in Kansas on voting.
The US constitution doesn’t afford that right, either.Kansas Constitution does not include a right to vote, state Supreme Court majority says
“It simply is not there,” [Justice] Stegall wrote.
I mean, maybe he's right. Sounds like something the voters of Kansas should fix.
Oh wait, Kansas is one of the far-too-many states that doesn't allow voters to put state initiatives on the ballot.
I guess they'll have to rely on the legislators to fix this oversight.
Several Amendments and Acts of Congress forbid the disenfranchisement of certain groups of people though.The US constitution doesn’t afford that right, either.
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