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If you don't live in a Republican majority state, then you might not appreciate the lengths they are will to go through at a bureaucratic level to prevent non R
by throwaway5752 7y ago
If you don't live in a Republican majority state, then you might not appreciate the lengths they are will to go through at a bureaucratic level to prevent non Republicans from voting and to otherwise minimize their political power. You almost want to admire how clever and dedicated they are to it: gerrymandering, removing classes of people from ballot roles, inconvenience tactics of minimizing voting machines/locations for non-R precincts, minimizing early voting and vote by mail (or defunding them), physical intimidation at precincts, and maneuvers like the subject of this article.
You can look at the members of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Advisory_Commission_on_Election_Integrity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Advisory_Commissi... (Hans van Spakovsky, Chris Kobach) and see the impressive and coordinated job they are doing at nationalizing the effort.
They have an incredible pipeline to create "movement" attorneys and advancing them into the judicial system with the ADF, programs like the Blackstone legal fellowship, and the relatively recently accredited Liberty U law school as a feeder. They don't draw a ton of attention to themselves, but let's just say... hopefully you are Christian, white, heterosexual, and don't want/need contraception. They essentially have already won, the precedent is just working its way through the judiciary.
- souprock 7y agoThis isn't something to blame on one party. Maryland is not a Republican majority state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%27s_3rd_congressional_district https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%27s_3rd_congressional... Illinois is also not a Republican majority state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_4th_congressional_district https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_4th_congressional...
- throwaway5752 7y agoI'm sorry, it is in fact a single party issue at a national, coordinated level right now. Not every R state is gerrymandered, and Maryland is a great example of how not every D state is not gerrymandered. But you have Eric Holder and the NDRC on one hand. You have Hofeller, Kobach, and von Spakovsky on the other. It should be bipartisan and simply a matter of civic duty, and I look forward to when it's that way again. And IL 4 was drawn by Republicans after https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/777/634/2259862/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/7... From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_4th_congressional_district#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_4th_congressional... "In June 1991, Congressman Dennis Hastert, a suburban Republican, filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the existing congressional map was unconstitutional;[11] the present congressional district boundaries emerged as a result of that lawsuit. A three-judge panel of the federal district court adopted the map proposed by Hastert and other Republican members of the Illinois Congressional delegation"