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Bongolian<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Texas</a> redistricting attempt is racist <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#disenfranchisement</a>: Colin Allred on Republicans' blatant power grab: "Since when do Texans take orders from D.C.?"<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ColinAllred" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ColinAllred</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Democrats</a> <a href="https://contrarian.substack.com/p/texas-redistricting-attempt-is-racist" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://contrarian.substack.com/p/texas-redistricting-attempt-is-racist</a>

AaronExploiting this distraction, the wealthy capture the government apparatus and turn it in service of ever more rapacious extraction, with the end result being the mass removal or extermination of disadvantaged citizens while their wealth and power is harvested by the wealthy.<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RegulatoryCapture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RegulatoryCapture</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MassTheft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MassTheft</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Disenfranchisement</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ConcentrationCamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConcentrationCamps</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DeathCamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeathCamps</a>

BeccaAnd women didn't get full suffrage until 1965, only 60 years ago.America, very much a work in progress.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/July4th" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#July4th</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensSuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WomensSuffrage</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#disenfranchisement</a>

wilfredExtremely personal and interesting article highlighting the pitfalls of Real ID implementation.“More than 140 million U.S. citizens don’t have a passport, and more than 21 million don’t have a passport or birth certificate that’s “readily available.” Not unlike my dad, some 69 million women who’ve taken their spouse’s name don’t have a birth certificate matching their legal name. Only 18% of respondents to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey had successfully changed the name on their birth certificate so that it aligned with their other documents. And because the SAVE Act mandates that prospective voters present documentary proof of U.S. citizenship at their local election office, isolated rural voters and anyone who doesn’t or can’t drive — young adults, older people, voters with certain disabilities — risk disenfranchisement.”<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/realid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#realid</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#voting</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/america" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#america</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#usa</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CA</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/voters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#voters</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disenfranchisement</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/name" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#name</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/identification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#identification</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#data</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/05/real-id-excludes-real-americans/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/05/real-id-excludes-real-americans/</a>

Joel VanderWerf 🐧Testimonials of voters who are angry that they were disenfranchised in the 6 month anti-democracy effort by the GOP after the NC Supreme Court election.<a href="https://thegriffinlist.com/testimonials.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thegriffinlist.com/testimonials.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NorthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NorthCarolina</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Disenfranchisement</a>

AnarchoNinaAnalyzesAlthough it isn't making even the fringes of the mainstream discourse surrounding the fascist GOP's election-rigging SAVE Act, the reality is that unless nazis with an eliminationist agenda towards trans people make some sort of exception, the bill will likely disenfranchise every trans person in America who has legally changed their name, and quite possibly most people who are in the process of transition and thus have ID that may be inconsistent with their presentation or other documents:<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/the-save-act-is-not-just-about-married-women-its-about-trans-people-too/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/the-save-act-is-not-just-about-married-women-its-about-trans-people-too/</a>Federal Voter ID Bill Attacks Trans Voters — and Anyone Else Who Has Changed Their Name"Much of the news coverage of the SAVE Act has focused almost entirely on the broad category of “married women” — a bloc of 69 million who may not have updated documents. But arguably, such a law is aimed directly at transgender people in addition to affecting married people who change their names. And that’s not to mention the 140 million U.S. citizens who don’t have passports and tens of millions who also don’t have easy access to a birth certificate. Regardless, the fact that trans people are at the center of this story has been easy to sideline: A story published by NPR last week listed eight things to know about this legislation — but didn’t mention the implications for trans people at all."At this point can anyone who has been paying attention (a very small group indeed, as far as I can tell) claim to be surprised that trans-eliminationist nazis are trying to pass a law that further erases trans people from public life and social participation, yet most of American society hasn't even registered that as a potential consequence of this disastrous, anti-democratic bill? After all, when the president of the United States signed an executive order more or less saying that trans people didn't exist, which historically is a sure sign that a government intends to make that a reality, most Very Serious PeopleTM in our discourse shrugged and pointed to public polling as an excuse to not speak out to defend trans people. So why would this act of erasure and disenfranchisement be any different? "Benfield is concerned that not naming trans people as a target of this legislation contributes to an insidious process that is ongoing: the erasure of trans people from public life in general.“It’s going to affect lots of different kinds of people,” she said of the SAVE Act. “But the reason that the erasure of trans people worries me in this conversation is that it’s consistent with strategic erasure from the public sphere that’s already been happening.”That strategic erasure includes President Donald Trump’s series of executive orders attacking so-called “gender ideology” and both state and national legislation that attempts to criminalize support for trans youth in physical and social transition. There are now only two genders — “male” and “female”— and anyone who falls outside of that could potentially face being pushed out of public life, including schools, sports, restroom facilities, and now voting itself. Even policies like Trump’s executive orders that aren’t immediately enforceable create a chilling effect, pushing trans people into the closet through intimidation." I would hope that because it requires sixty votes in the Senate, the SAVE Act is a dead on arrival bill; but I can't say I'm all that confident in a Democratic Party that is openly blaming the results of an election they seemingly *tried* to lose on their (actually, nonexistent) support of trans rights, and its ability to protect people like me. Even if the SAVE Act is shot down however, the fact that this attempt at the mass disenfranchisement of trans people in American civic life doesn't even rate a talking point in this very public debate, strongly implies that when these bills only target trans people, the establishment "opposition" to the fascist agenda will continue to shrug, offer empty words of condolence, and simply let it happen; which is pretty much par for the course in the fascist Trump 2.0 era. To say that living in a society where your rights and even your existence are not so much up for debate, but rather already judged to be either irrelevant, or non-existent, is surreal and unnerving, would be an understatement of massive proportions. I guess there is one upside here however, because if trans people can no longer vote, perhaps I'll finally be free of liberals who honestly don't give a rats ass about my life, screaming at me to support a Democratic Party that doesn't care whether I live or die, while pretending their party is a much better advocate for my right to exist, than they actually are.<a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/SAVEAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SAVEAct</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/LBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LBTQ</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AntiTransPogrom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AntiTransPogrom</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TransRights</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Disenfranchisement</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CivilRights</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TransErasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TransErasure</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Transphobia</a>

MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKKXb1XmsBs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKKXb1XmsBs</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/BrianTylerCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BrianTylerCohen</a> MAJOR UPDATE on Republican effort to STEAL an Election <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/JUsticeAllisonRiggs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JUsticeAllisonRiggs</a> of <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/NorthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NorthCarolina</a> WON! But the <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/GNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNP</a> are trying to prevent her from being certified. <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/GrandNaziParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GrandNaziParty</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disenfranchisement</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/FascistUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FascistUSA</a>

Ben Royce 🇺🇦<a href="https://c.im/@shigella" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@shigella</a> Zero argumentI have absolutely nothing against people who can't vote due to legality, social physical or financial situation, etcThat still leaves a lot of assholes who can vote but don'tAnd how do we fix the voter <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disenfranchisement</a> problem?By people who can <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vote</a>, showing the fuck up

Led By Fools<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Voter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Voter</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disenfranchisement</a> , a top priority of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Project2025</a>, would be done by requiring either a birth cert or passport in your current name, meaning up to 70 million married women and low income people are the targets.This affects *everyone* whose name has changed.* immigrants who tried to assimilate * married women * transfolk * adopteesIf you currently use a name other than the one your parents gave you, it affects you.In WA state, mail-in voting would be destroyed by this law. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/washington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#washington</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Seattle</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KingCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KingCounty</a>Contact your Senstors to oppose this, today 2/12Here's how they would do it. <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-would-disenfranchise-millions-of-citizens/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-would-disenfranchise-millions-of-citizens/</a>From thread: <a href="https://mas.to/@Bookworm33333/113988232830083234" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mas.to/@Bookworm33333/113988232830083234</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Voting</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VotingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VotingRights</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VotingRightAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VotingRightAct</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vote</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mail</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SAVEAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SAVEAct</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Citizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Citizenship</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BirthCertificate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BirthCertificate</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Passport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Passport</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Constitution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClassWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Class" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Class</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Conservatives</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Liberals</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Democracy</a>

Duane Aubin :verified:<a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/profile/claralistensprechen3rd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@claralistensprechen3rd</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/@Doreen32128" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Doreen32128</a> <a href="https://beige.party/@GuyDudeman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@GuyDudeman</a> I hear you :-)My particular angle of contribution is to connect the larger-scale events that are explicitly political-process driven. It is the <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/enfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enfranchisement</a>/ <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disenfranchisement</a> template that makes sense of <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a>, <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/VoterSuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VoterSuppression</a>, #3/5thsCompromise, <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ElectoralCollege</a>, <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CivilWar</a>, <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/JimCrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JimCrow</a>, <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/jan6th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jan6th</a> It is a thick band of threads running throughout the fabric of <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a>

BongolianJason Koebler: Inside the Plan to Use AI to Purge Voter Rolls"At a public meeting in Columbia County, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Georgia</a> late last year, Dr. Rick Richards explained that he had run a piece of software he created called <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/EagleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EagleAI</a> against Georgia’s voter registration records.'When we reviewed the Secretary of State records, roughly 8 million registrations, we found 1.4 million typos,' Richards said. “There were 99,523 apostrophes where there shouldn’t be. There were periods in the initials […] There were 197,851 hashtags in the field for apartment number. Well, they won’t match.' Richards said he “offered to clean this up for the state for free, and they said no.'"<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disenfranchisement</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#voting</a> <a href="https://www.404media.co/email/b2535640-1619-4d05-bb31-5a9093f5a21e/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.404media.co/email/b2535640-1619-4d05-bb31-5a9093f5a21e/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter</a>

Mike LaBonteCould states still justify incarcerated felon <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disenfranchisement</a> if the 13th amendment was amended? Or would the US <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Constitution</a> have to specifically disallow that? <a href="https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/113398032694702351" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/113398032694702351</a>

tobie<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> gives the green light for VA to purge 1600 voters from the rolls. Only Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented. This is an ominous sign for how the 6 conservative Justices will rule on any other election case. They are partisans. The law does not matter to them. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExpandtheCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ExpandtheCourt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Disenfranchisement</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USElection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USElection</a> <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-virginia-voter-rolls/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-virginia-voter-rolls/</a>

Tired Aid WorkerResidents of <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Guam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Guam</a>, along with 4 million American residents in five US territories, don't get to formally vote for the President, but--fun fact--they have successfully picked the President in nearly every election (except Carter in 1980 and Clinton in 2016). <a href="https://toot.community/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disenfranchisement</a> <a href="https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/pacific/pac-usvote-guam-10282024201242.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/pacific/pac-usvote-guam-10282024201242.html</a>

DoomsdaysCWTake The Near Impossible <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LiteracyTest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LiteracyTest</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a> Used to Suppress the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackVote</a> (1964)in History, Politics | October 21st, 2024 "In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black Republican candidate to office after the Civil War, destroying the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ballots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ballots</a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackVoters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackVoters</a> and shooting two Northern carpetbaggers. While such dramatic means of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterSuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VoterSuppression</a> occurred often enough in the Reconstruction South, tactics of electoral exclusion refined over time, such that by the mid-twentieth century the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JimCrowSouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JimCrowSouth</a> relied largely on nearly impossible-to-pass literacy tests to impede free and fair elections."These tests, writes Rebecca Onion at Slate, were 'supposedly applicable to both white and black prospective voters who couldn’t prove a certain level of education' (typically up to the fifth grade). Yet they were 'in actuality disproportionately administered to black voters.'"Additionally, many of the tests were rigged so that registrars could give potential voters an easy or a difficult version, and could score them differently as well. For example, the Veterans of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CivilRights</a> Movement describes a test administered in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Alabama</a> that is so entirely subjective that it measures the registrar’s shrewdness and cunning more than anything else."The test here from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a> consists of questions so ambiguous that no one, whatever their level of education, can divine a 'right' or 'wrong' answer to most of them. And yet, as the instructions state, 'one wrong answer denotes failure of the test,' an impossible standard for even a legitimate exam. Even worse, voters had only ten minutes to complete the three-page, 30-question document. The Louisiana test dates from 1964, the year before the passage of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VotingRightsAct</a>, which effectively put an end to these blatantly discriminatory practices." Read more: <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Disenfranchisement</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterDisenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VoterDisenfranchisement</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterSuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VoterSuppression</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Elections2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elections2024</a>

Chuck DarwinSome of the most consequential Republican attacks on democracy happen at the state levelA map from the Brennan Center for Justice shows every state that passed a restriction on the franchise between 2010 and 2019. These restrictions, ranging from <a href="https://c.im/tags/voter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#voter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ID</a> laws to <a href="https://c.im/tags/felon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#felon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disenfranchisement</a>, were generally passed by Republican majorities with the intent of hurting turnout among Democratic-leaning constituencies.Republican state legislators were sometimes explicit about this: 💥“Voter ID ... is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania,” then-state House Majority Leader Mike Turzai bragged during the 2012 presidential election cycle.Because Republicans dominated the 2010 midterm elections, Republican statehouses got to control the post-2010 census redistricting process at both the House and state legislative level, leading to extreme <a href="https://c.im/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a> in Republican-controlled states unlike anything in Democratic ones.Conservative control of the Supreme Court enabled this state-level push. In 2013, the Court 🆘 struck down the Voting Rights Act’s “preclearance” requirement — that states with a history of racial discrimination would be required to get permission from the Justice Department on their maps and other major changes to electoral law. In 2019, another Court ruling paved the way for further partisan gerrymandering.

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Ben Royce 🇺🇦<a href="https://newsmast.social/@KamalaHarrisWin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@KamalaHarrisWin</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NorthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NorthCarolina</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/voter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#voter</a> registration deadline <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Election2024</a>:Friday, October 11 at 5 PMNC has online <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/voter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#voter</a> registrationor register during early <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#voting</a> period via same-day <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/registration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#registration</a>:October 17 - November 2<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElectionDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ElectionDay</a>, November 5, same-day registration is *not* availableNC just removed 10 PERCENT of their <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/registered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#registered</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/voters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#voters</a>!they are trying to suppress your <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vote</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disenfranchisement</a><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4901476-north-carolina-purges-747k-voters/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4901476-north-carolina-purges-747k-voters/</a>check your voting status:<a href="https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/</a>

ℳ🅰®️⊺ℹ︎₦Ballot paper for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeneralElection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeneralElection</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/austria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#austria</a> this Sunday not received in the UK. no comeback to the 'authorities'. our democracies need to be strenghtened to prevent this kind of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disenfranchisement</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/osterreich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#osterreich</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nationalratswahl2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nationalratswahl2024</a> <a href="https://wien.rocks/@wien" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@wien</a>

Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦Did you know that voting has begun in every state? It’s for overseas and military voters. That’s one reason news orgs should call out frivolous GOP lawsuits.What the GOP is doing is like telling a ref to change the rules for how to record a touchdown after the football game begins.<a href="https://themoderatevoice.com/voting-has-begun-in-every-state-news-orgs-should-call-out-frivolous-gop-lawsuits/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://themoderatevoice.com/voting-has-begun-in-every-state-news-orgs-should-call-out-frivolous-gop-lawsuits/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Election2024</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#voting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disenfranchisement</a>

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