Yet Another Assault on 'Mocracy

[altair1013]

@WuWei

It seems us Neanderthals have upset The Creep. Again.

Has he said, “That’s not who we are.” Yet?

[Camp]

Nobody is unable to vote due to time logistics.

[DougBH]

@tnt

@DougBH

What’s wrong with the ones being democratically approved by the state of Texas?

They limit the time possible to vote, which means fewer people will vote.

It is impossible not to limit the time people vote. Now law has no limit. I cannot vote now in the 2022 elections. How much time does the Texas law allow to vote, and how is that unfair?
What time should be allowed and why?

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@gooddad409

@DougBH

@PurpnGold

@DougBH

What’s wrong with the ones being democratically approved by the state of Texas?

They limit voting.

Why limit voting?

Can I vote now in the 2024 election?
Of course voting has to be limited.
Some just have a fit if its Republicans doing the limiting.

TX is trying to limit voting to those who can legally vote.

Libs/dems don’t want that.

Uh huh. Tell me: how does limiting it to one drop box in a county the size of Rhode Island do that?

[DougBH]

@FloridaYankee

@Jezcoe

Still, the bill includes a provision that could make overturning an election easier. Texas election law had stated that reversing the results of an election because of fraud accusations required proving that illicit votes had actually resulted in a wrongful victory. If the bill passes, the number of fraudulent votes required to do so would simply need to be equal to the winning vote differential; it would not matter for whom the fraudulent votes had been cast

Okay, now THAT part is not cool. I think there is more to it.

Really? Suppose there is a 10 vote difference between the winner an loser. Suppose there are 88 fraudulent votes and you don’t know who they favored. How do you know who really won the election?

[FloridaYankee]

@DougBH

@FloridaYankee

@Jezcoe

Still, the bill includes a provision that could make overturning an election easier. Texas election law had stated that reversing the results of an election because of fraud accusations required proving that illicit votes had actually resulted in a wrongful victory. If the bill passes, the number of fraudulent votes required to do so would simply need to be equal to the winning vote differential; it would not matter for whom the fraudulent votes had been cast

Okay, now THAT part is not cool. I think there is more to it.

Really? Suppose there is a 10 vote difference between the winner an loser. Suppose there are 88 fraudulent votes and you don’t know who they favored. How do you know who really won the election?

The paragraph says overturn the election as opposed to trying to figure it out through investigation. That’s why I said there has to be more to it.

[WuWei]

@Supreme_War_Pig

Uh huh. Tell me: how does limiting it to one drop box in a county the size of Rhode Island do that?

Which county is that?

[Zander]

@Camp

It isn’t bad.

More confusing and promotes malaise if you lack the urgency of election day.

It’s like fixing a work of art.

If there’s one word that describes the 2020 election, it’s definitely malaise.

Nailed it.

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@WuWei

@Supreme_War_Pig

Uh huh. Tell me: how does limiting it to one drop box in a county the size of Rhode Island do that?

Which county is that?

All of them

[hwyflier]

Not today.

Texas Democrats leave House floor, effectively blocking passage of...

No quorum. Session ends in 20 minutes.

Abbott will have to call for an emergency session now. Unexpectedly good play here by Texas dems.

Texas republicans really blew their biennial session. More power than ever but they were so busy stoking republican fantasies they forgot to renew chapter 313 which dishes out the behemoth tax breaks to corporations (elon will be mad), didn’t add any teeth to the grid winterization, and whoopsie’d this vote by trying to cram it in the closing minutes like a bunch of tweaked out auctioneers.

Now they have to gin up another “emergency” while Abbott is already taking flak from his right for not relinquishing the emergency powers he claimed for the pandemic.

[Camp]

Exactly what we got ironically enough.

2020 was tainted by the pandemic hysteria.

[tnt]

Not true.

Why do you think the last election had such high turnout?

[Ben_Natuf]

@tnt

Not true.

Why do you think the last election had such high turnout?

did it?

[Camp]

The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election

The rules were bent quite unethically due to the virus panic.

[Jezcoe]

@Camp

The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election | TIME

The rules were bent quite unethically due to the virus panic.

A nefarious coalition of people that worked to insure that people could vote.

Spooky

[Camp]

Unprecedented.

The rules should be set and clear.

[Samm]

@WuWei

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/556104-biden-blasts-texas-voting-bill-an-assault-on-democracy

“Today, Texas legislators put forth a bill that joins Georgia and Florida in advancing a state law that attacks the sacred right to vote. It’s part of an assault on democracy that we’ve seen far too often this year—and often disproportionately targeting Black and Brown Americans,” Biden said in a statement.

It seems us Neanderthals have upset The Creep. Again.

But is this one Jim Crow on steroids?

[WuWei]

@Samm

But is this one Jim Crow on steroids?

Of course.

[hwyflier]

@Jezcoe

A nefarious coalition of people that worked to insure that people could vote.

Spooky

The continuous hoisting of that article as evidence of something nefarious is one of the weirder but funnier examples of the intelligence gap forming in the republican party.

[FreeAndClear]

@Camp

Unprecedented.

The rules should be set and clear.

They are. No rules were broken. None.