Stop the ct
Stop the ct
Stop the c**t.
Its a catchy thing. You know.
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Is that his win, effectively what’s happened is someone’s agreed to give him some more money for another wasteful law suit
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You under estimate how many and how challenging the obstacles are for many people in this country to cast a vote and get it counted. I think it is a bit flippant to imagine as a foreigner you understand it and can solve the problem for these people by just asking them to put more effort in. In some communities there are obstacles at every single level to casting a valid vote that is counted, some of these seemingly created for the sole purpose of keeping these people out of the process.
For instance, being able to register to vote requires you have documentation than many low income people do not have and which they make very difficult and expensive to obtain. Now, lets say someone misses a day of work and pay to go through that and then decides to cast a postal vote. Well, ballots from these communities somehow, surely completely coincidentally, get rejected at rates about 5 times more than normal. Yes, there is a way you can check on this and a process in place to resolve it but requires you have internet, and can take the time to go into the election office to resolve it if you find a problem. Again, an obstacle.
A good friend of mine was ready to cast his first ever vote this year after being shut out of the process for years as a convicted felon. However, the requirement is that all his fees associated with his prison time have been paid, but there is no one system that tells you what they are, or even to whom you owe anything. If he registered and cast a vote and then found out he still owed $15 to some county official somewhere that would be a federal offense. He spent 6 months trying to figure this out and in the end just couldnt get the confidence that there were no fees somewhere still outstanding so he abstained.
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Amazing to think that this was the first time @Alright_Now has voted.
Trendsetter. Maybe.
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Greg Palast has been writing on an almost daily basis for years about the efforts being made to restrict people in their right to vote. (I think particularly on Georgia funnily enough given that is one of the seats under the spotlight today)
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Fecking hell…
I go to the playground for an hour and all hell breaks loose!!!
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After losing the race for Governor, under very dubious circumstances that involved tons of state sponsored voter suppression, Stacey Abrams committed to running programs that addressed this issue. She is now getting enormous plaudits for her 2 years of work putting Georgia in play and lots of people have taken that as a demonstration than Biden should have picked her. Uh, if she was a running mate she wouldnt have been able to do this work. It’s not as glamorous, but there was no where else Abrams could have been to have more impact than what she has done.
It could turn out to have no result in this election, but it could result in an EC win and two senate seats. But even if not, the process has now started and can be built upon next time.
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So basically…
‘No shit. Piss off and stop wasting our time.’
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A good post.
You are right. I am maybe too flippant. I just detest people who don’t vote and I laser in on how they can vote, but you are right, for many it is hard and your post explains that very well.
I take self criticism. I am just angry at those who did not vote, given that it was Trump on the menu. I guess I may have read also a tad too much Thom Nichols at times, as he has a tendency to discard the “it is too hard for me to vote” argument, pointing out that there are several ways to vote and that it is no real excuse, but more an excuse people use to make them feel better not voting. But what you write resonate with me, and since I am not an elitist like that conservative grumpy man, I take onboard what you are saying here. Obviously, if one person finds it too hard to vote, there will be thousands more, no doubt about that.
I still think more people could have voted if they really wanted and 75% voting turnout shouldn’t be that hard, but that there will be a 10 percent that has great difficulty voting (I just made up that number for the sake of my sentence, have no data on that, it is just an example) I don’t doubt at all. I do doubt that it is 25% though and I my point is that if not Trump merits a 75% + voting attendance, then nobody else ever will. I just think that Trump is so special that it should blow the charts on attendance, both for him and particularly against. And I am very disappointed with Americans. I just am. Sorry. But yes, I was too flippant and you are right to point it out.
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Yes, but it’s unlikely these legal challenges were ever a serious attempt to do anything directly, they are being seen more as steps to ramp up the disinformation campaign that is underway, which may then lead to something more significant
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I think one issue with this framing is that many of the problems people face are erected at the state level, it may also be a long running saga so it becomes an issue about the institutions more generally and not just one person.
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