Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Could Block 300,000 Registered Voters From the Polls

[moonshaz]

One of the country’s toughest voting restrictions takes effect for the April 5 primary.Johnny Randle, a 74-year-old African-American resident of Milwaukee, moved to Wisconsin from Mississippi in 2011, the same year the state legislature passed a law requiring a government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot. Randle, with the help of his daughter,

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[fauxkaren]

Cute voter suppression and disenfranchisement, Wisconsin.

ugh.

Also OT, but also about the undemocratic-ness of elections in the US... Bernie may have just won Nevada. lol. From an objective POV, I see how undemocratic caucuses are. But from the POV of a Bernie supporter, I am thrilled that apparently Hillary's delegates didn't feel like showing up to the Clark county convention and that Bernie was able to get enough alternates there to take their place.

I'm like 98% sure this is what happened in 2008 too. Clinton won on the day of the caucuses, but Obama was able to get more people to conventions and thus get more delegates.

I'd make a post about it, but no news articles yet. Just reports from people at the convention.

[screamingintune]

Cruz is apparently doing this too and it's so damn hinky. I know it's within the rules but it's still shady as hell

idk if I'd say I was ever "thrilled" about something like this tho, yikes girl

[fauxkaren]

How is it shady??

The system is a mess, but it's just playing withing the confines of the system. Hillary delegates didn't show up so they didn't count. That's not Bernie's fault.

[screamingintune]

it's within the rules of the system sure, but it's shady because it's not representative of the will of the people. it may not be Bernie's fault but if I were one of his supporters I wouldn't find it "thrilling"

[fauxkaren]

That's not shady though.

That's just an apathetic base of Clinton supporters not following through.

[screamingintune]

the process is shady. the process is undemocratic.

and I mean, really, being "thrilled" that the will of the voters in Nevada is overturned because of procedural crap? again I say: yikes.

[zukpager305]

Just playing devil's advocate here, the superdelegates are "within the confines of the system" yet they clearly favor Hillary. But don't Bernie supporters routinely complain about how unfair that system is? Doesn't that seem hypocritical to you?

(I personally find the superdelegate system and caucus system shady.)

[shadwing]

They are shady for one simple reason, the Primary System is basically rigged in favor of whomever the Party Elite deems worthy of nomination. IIRC the idea that the common people come together to nominate somebody is pretty recent, yes Primary's were held but they didn't have the weight they do today. In the late 19th century it was still common to have a brokered convention with compromises made in case there was too much division within the party to settle on one of the 'main' picks.

Super Delegates, shifting rules, the caucus system all there to weed out 'lesser' and insure only the 'best' get up there. And even if you have outliers like Trump, there are still enough flex in the rules to stop him cold. (we hope!)