Trump seems mentally insane at this point driven there by his sociopathic need to win at all costs in any battle no matter what the consequences. It is incredible how gullible many Americans are at this point buying his message. Memories of what was occurring in your country before Iraq was invaded. Years from now people will look back at the Trump era and wonder what the fuck people were thinking.
This woman whose hair dangles reminds me of Bullwinkle in the Geico TV ad where the Geico Gecko says to Bullwinkle, "That doesn't even make any sense, Mr. Winkle."
let's just overrule the majority's vote. Odds this makes it to SCOTUS in time? Nil https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ment-restores-felon-voting-rights/1911848002/ Florida passes amendment to restore voting rights for 1.5 million felons Florida voters on Tuesday approved Amendment 4, which says that most felons will automatically have their voting rights restored when they complete their sentences or go on probation. The amendment restores voting rights to former felons who served their sentence, including parole and probation, with the exception of those convicted of murder and sexual offenses. Currently, former felons must wait at least 5 years after completing their sentences to ask the Florida Clemency Board, made up by the governor and the Cabinet, to restore their rights. A U.S. district judge found Florida's current system arbitrary and unconstitutional in March, and the case is under appeal. If passed, Amendment 4 would impact 1.5 million Floridians. Florida is one of four states that disenfranchises former felons permanently. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f...ees-and-fines-are-paid/ar-BB18WA4R?li=BBnb7Kz Federal appeals court blocks Florida's felons from voting until fees and fines are paid The appeals court's ruling was written by Chief Judge William Pryor, who was named to the court by President George W. Bush and is on Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees. The other five judges in the 6-4 majority were appointed by Trump. All four judges in the minority were named by Democratic presidents. The legal battle stems from a constitutional amendment passed by Florida voters in 2018 that allows most felons to vote after their sentences are complete. Those convicted of murder or a felony sexual offense are not included. In response, the Republican-controlled state Legislature passed and Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law requiring that felons first pay all of their financial obligations
We really need to bring back the guillotine. https://georgiarecorder.com/brief/g...rongly-erased-200k-voters-from-rolls-in-2019/ Georgia ACLU says state wrongly erased 200K voters from rolls in 2019 A report released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia found that the state likely improperly purged 200,000 people from the voter rolls in 2019. The Palast Investigative Fund report “Georgia Voter Roll Purge Errors” said that the Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office removed 198,351 people from the voting registration list last year on the faulty premise that they moved without notifying the state. Instead, elections officials would have realized those residents were probably still living in the same place by performing a different type of address verification, said Greg Palast, the founder of the not-for-profit foundation supporting investigative journalism. Many of those voters, who represent 63% of the 313,243 voter names purged in October 2019, may not realize what’s happened until the next time they try to vote, said Palast. The state routinely updates the voter rolls every other year to ensure those who are registered are still eligible to vote in Georgia. Election officials do this by flagging people who have filed a change of address, whose election mail is returned as undeliverable, or who have not voted in several years or who failed to respond to a postcard seeking a response – known as “use it or lose it.” The problem with the postcard notification, Palast said, is it can easily be overlooked as junk mail. “You don’t just remove people’s names willy nilly because someone, somewhere got some goofy list and then you send out a postcard. It’s wrong,” he said. “And I don’t think any Georgian wants to see a neighbor removed from the voter rolls because of some clerical error by the government.” The state’s voter registration cancellation policies drew controversy in the 2018 gubernatorial election, when just 54,700 votes separated then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacy Abrams. In July 2017, Kemp’s office canceled a record 591,000 voter registrations. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in March that since 2017, more than 87,000 people re-registered to vote after losing their eligibility when they should not have. The state sends a final notice to a person’s last known address before they are removed from the voter rolls for not having “contact” with the state. Raffensperger has also started posting online the names of the voters who are at risk of being removed. As for the report’s findings that the 2019 purge wrongly removed the names of nearly 200,000 voters, Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs questioned Palast’s motivation. “It is unfortunate that the ACLU hired a known Stacey Abrams shill to conduct ‘research,’ especially when there are so many credible options on the left to hire,” Fuchs said in a statement. “Greg Palast has been discredited by many across the political spectrum. I welcome the ACLU to conduct a real study with a credible source, not someone who is spreading disinformation to shill for his book.” Palast said his research will hold up to scrutiny. “It’s not right, left, it’s not Democrat and Republican, it’s about the American laws and system of voting,” he said. The report’s findings come from address verification searches performed by five firms and also by analyzing the change-of-address information list provided by vendors licensed by the U.S. Postal Service. The report also suggests that Georgia’s method of sending postcards to verify whether a voter has moved is costlier than more effective alternatives such as a system used by major corporations like Home Depot and Amazon. ACLU of Georgia Executive Director Andrea Young urged all Georgia voters to go check their voting status online through the secretary of state’s or ACLU’s websites. “There are Georgia citizens who are duly registered to vote that have every reason to assume that they are on the voter rolls,” she said. “If when they show up to vote, and they’re told no, you’re not on the list. It creates confusion for them
This article is a sad joke and a re-writing of reality. Let’s briefly discuss reality: 1) The Obama administration demanded that states purge their voting lists and update their voting rolls — since many states have not done this for decades. 2) Many states with the most significant problems are in the South since earlier voting rights acts made it difficult to purge the rolls. 3) The criteria and procedure for purging the voting list using a post card mailer is driven by the Feds. A common procedure is used across all states. If you have a problem with how a state performs the procedure then call D.C. — they defined the required process.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...600-000-to-gop-after-postmaster-job-opened-up DeJoy Gave $600,000 to GOP After Postmaster Job Opened Up Donations increased to Trump, Republicans before appointment Testimony on DeJoy giving submitted to House panel for hearing Louis DeJoy boosted his giving to Republican political campaigns as the job of U.S. Postmaster General became available, a researcher told Congress. DeJoy, who now holds the position, gave President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee more than $600,000 over eight weeks after the opening was announced, Lisa Graves, executive director of True North Research, which investigates the influence of money on public policy, said in written testimony submitted to a panel of the House Oversight Committee in advance of a hearing Monday. In the 2019-2020 cycle, DeJoy has given more than $1.5 million to GOP candidates and campaigns, the bulk of which has gone to aid Trump’s 2020 election strategy, Graves said. The sum includes nearly $80,000 to aid GOP Senate races since last December, when the former Postmaster General announced she would resign. “This level of partisanship,” Graves said in written testimony, “undermines public trust in the Postal Service as an institution.”