As November Approaches, Courts Deal Series Of Blows To Voter ID Laws

[moonshaz]

All summer long, the clock has been ticking on voting rights cases. Judges don't like to change voting rules too near an election, and November is creeping ever closer

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[roseembolism]

Not only were these laws unfair and designed to support the Republicans, it's that they were flat-out racist. Deliberately, grotesquely so. And there's still a number that hopefully will get struck down before November. The sheer gal;l of the republicans in passing and supporting these laws is infuriating.

And yes, we need Liberal judges, or at least moderate judges in there. And enough of a hold on the Senate so they can actually be confirmed.

[rhysande]

Republicans know their stances and policies appeal to a decreasing demographic of older, Christian, cis/het whites, particularly men. They're passing laws and limiting hours and booths in polling places to limit who can vote rather than come up with better ideas and arguments.

The second priority on my list of issues this election is voting rights. As long as all adult citizens can vote we can make sure we continue to work toward being a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people. For those looking for a reason to feel a bit more positive about voting for Clinton (as opposed to feeling it's purely a defensive measure against Trump), the fact that she wants to restore the voting rights act, hopefully to all states and territories, goes on the plus side.

[halfshellvenus]

Well, thank goodness.

I keep coming back to the Supreme Court deciding that key parts of the Voting Rights Act were "no longer needed," and within months, laws started surfacing to repress voting by POC.

What would it take to reverse the Supreme Court decision? A plaintiff, certainly, but how far up the local state judicial-system chain would a legal team need to go to present that case as, "Can you fix what you just broke?"

[bnmc2005]

As I've posted in other threads, I do wish there would be more discussion on how an election can be supposedly "Rigged" by voter fraud that - all evidence collect so far - mostly consists of individual incidents. i.e., People voting for a dead relative, or a relative in jail, or a sick Dad. Incidents that although illegal have no real impact on an election. Incidents that we discovered because the laws and processes in place actually work to ferret this kind of stuff out.

T-bag's and his campaign are using the Email DNC scandal to conflate small time voter fraud to a level of National conspiracy and fueling this with violent rhetoric. In the meantime deflecting from the very real efforts of Republican lawmakers to suppress voter rights.

[lightframes]

That North Carolina ruling was so much fun to read.