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Nothing like a federal

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 07:09:19 +0000

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Nothing like a federal appeals court—five days before an election—holding that Minnesota voters who have been told that they only have to *send* their mail-in ballots by Election Day may actually need them to be *received* by then:https://t.co/j0zSehm6mY

Judge Kelly dissents: pic.twitter.com/fVO6mayRlH
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) October 29, 2020

A clearer way to state it,

NCD — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 03:29:20 +0000

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A clearer way to state it, after 1988, the Democrats won all 7 subsequent presidential elections, by popular vote, except one, 2004.

Another point: the political power of Deep South white supremacists post-Civil War was expanded nationally. With Jim Crow, blacks still couldn't vote, but for allotting congressional representation, blacks were now worth 5/5 not 3/5 of a person...!

A rather anachronistic take

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:32:00 +0000

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A rather anachronistic take in the electoral college.

First, the cotton gin wasn't invented til 1793, quite after the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and indeed slave population decrease up to 1790, and the bigger cotton *territories* weren't even settled til after 1800. So it's unlikely the Founding Fathers in 1787 envisioned the cotton behemoth of 1850.

https://userpages.umbc.edu/~bouton/History407/SlaveStats.htm

Second, presidents were chosen by states, not voters - as were Senators til the 17th Amendment. So treating early voting as a way to disenfranchise specific voters ignores the whole context - there was no massive national GOTV effort - the whole system was much more representational, i.e. funneled thru representatives even in selection stage (and it's hard to imagine the practical logistics of a 13-colonies-long direct vote on election day back in pre-steam society.)

Third, women couldn't vote either. They counted as 5/5th a person, true, but their male relatives had to do the deciding for them till 1919 or so, and women's property rights weren't even settled til 1960-1980 range. Why we turn a blind eye to gender Injustice in all these discussions, as if it's normal that the female half didn't vote now let's talk about blacks - is a bit bizarre but unsurprising in #MeToo era. (yes, a female black would be nonvoting 3/5, and a female white would be non-voting 5/5, and not sure if Cherokee and Choctaw counted at all, nor Chinese)

Omar is part of the anti

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 22:55:04 +0000

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Omar is pretty much part of the anti-wokee intellectual club, but he does know real racist history as well:

Electoral College

— Designed to increase power of slaveholding states via 3/5ths clause

— Winner take all rules created, in part, to deny equal voice to Black voters

— In 1970, segregationist Senators filibuster popular reform

Do I detect a pattern?https://t.co/Do77761wcd
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) October 22, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 21:15:48 +0000

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Man

https://filmdaily.co/news/florida-man-memes/

Florida is the origin and

NCD — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:52:43 +0000

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Florida is the origin and national home base of every crook, idiot, shyster, fool, scam, right wing crackpot and experimental territory for GOP system gaming, I have no hope Biden will come out on top there, even if his vote total exceeds Trump.

2016 anti-voter effort (click

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 19:25:39 +0000

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2016 anti-voter effort (click for even more)
Why was Manafort passing polling info to the Russians?
Why were those servers passing data between Alfa Bank & Trump & elsewhere?

They used the data to identify Black residents, especially on either side of I-95 in North Miami-Dade, who were unlikely to vote for Trump.

Their goal was not to win them over, but to deter them from voting for @HillaryClinton, using negative ads, some laden with misinformation. pic.twitter.com/UnucnUt6We
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) October 22, 2020

In Florida, Trump’s team marked more Black voters for ‘deterrence’ than in any other state — roughly 658,000 people, or 40% of Black voters in the Trump database, according to exclusive data shared with the @MiamiHerald by the U.K.’s @Channel4News. pic.twitter.com/oXwF2iBklU
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) October 22, 2020

It then used those profiles to individually target people with advertisements and door-to-door visits designed to dissuade them from voting.

Many of the ads were so-called “dark posts” on Facebook, designed to be seen by only small groups of voters and then disappear forever. pic.twitter.com/OYjaA2U5Ao
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) October 22, 2020

The end result: Trump carried the state of Florida by more than 100,000 votes, boosted by huge turnout in rural and suburban White areas of the state and fewer minorities showing up to the polls. pic.twitter.com/fLHE8XosbM
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) October 22, 2020

Our analysis offers a window into how the Trump campaign undercut Clinton in 2016, and how it could do it again in 2020, as Democratic nominee @joebiden relies heavily on robust Black voter turnout to win the nation’s largest battleground state. https://t.co/k3C7mSjzlz
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) October 22, 2020

That cranks like Alito,

NCD — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 13:03:33 +0000

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That cranks like Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch have some dictatorial omniscience on what is Constitutional is a huge impediment to progress, can set back necessary action/reforms decades or even centuries.

All judges and all lawmakers in the nation take an oath to defend the Constitution, there is no monopoly on it especially with our ideologically regressive politicized courts. it's why the courts must be balanced ASAP, or we will be breathing smoky air, enduring increasing oligarchy and inequality, and treading water in rising seas for the next 50 years.

Secret Supreme Court motions

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 08:56:22 +0000

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Secret Supreme Court motions

There's a lot that's wrong with #SCOTUS's shadow docket. But perhaps nothing is more troubling than the fact that significant decisions affecting how we vote are handed down with literally *no* explanation — even when, as here, multiple Justices dissent:https://t.co/ReIPavzpOT pic.twitter.com/XtxJYTrBQ5
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) October 22, 2020

There's a lot that's wrong

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 08:55:27 +0000

In reply to Whites Woke to Gaming Ballot Boxes Since 1865

There's a lot that's wrong with #SCOTUS's shadow docket. But perhaps nothing is more troubling than the fact that significant decisions affecting how we vote are handed down with literally *no* explanation — even when, as here, multiple Justices dissent:https://t.co/ReIPavzpOT pic.twitter.com/XtxJYTrBQ5
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) October 22, 2020