It’s celebration day, so I’m taking a day off. Wonder Woman Wendy is due in about an hour.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:18 (average 5:30). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Take:
From NY Times: On its face, the notice sent to 248 county election officials asked only that they do what Congress has ordered: Prune their rolls of voters who have died, moved or lost their eligibility — or face a federal lawsuit.
The notice, delivered in September by a conservative advocacy group, is at the heart of an increasingly bitter argument over the seemingly mundane task of keeping accurate lists of voters — an issue that will be a marquee argument before the Supreme Court in January.
At a time when gaming the rules of elections has become standard political strategy, the task raises a high-stakes question: Is scrubbing ineligible voters from the rolls worth the effort if it means mistakenly bumping legitimate voters as well?
The political ramifications are as close as a history book. Florida’s Legislature ordered the voter rolls scrubbed of dead registrants and ineligible felons before the 2000 presidential election. The resulting purge, based on a broad name-matching exercise, misidentified thousands of legitimate voters as criminals, and prevented at least 1,100 of them — some say thousands more — from casting ballots.
That was the election in which George W. Bush’s 537-vote margin in Florida secured his place in the White House. Controlling the rules of elections — including who is on or off the rolls — has been both a crucial part of political strategy and a legal battleground ever since.
The Times is asking the wrong question. Mistakenly bumping legitimate voters as well is not the problem. The problem is Republicans intentionally bumping legitimate Democratic Voters, a key component of maintaining a Republican Reich. RESIST!!
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On the one hand, it makes sense to purge the names of those who have died or moved out of a voting district from the rolls; on the other hand, such legitimate purging can be an inroad for voter suppression.
These purges, or bumping legitimate voters is right up in the ‘handbook’ of the Repugs. They would love this! Hope the SC finds those states in violation, (I’m sure Texas is in the group, (no doubt)).
Cartoon: Curtsy to the Queen!!
Hi WWWendy!! Hope y’all have a great day!! Take care, and Thanks, Tom.
Any kind of needing with the voter registration by the god-awful goppers is bound to leave some Dems out of being able to vote! Just imagine if this was a Democratic party trick? There would be ALL kinds of investigations and hand wringing by the RIGHT! We would NEVER hear the end of it if JUST ONE gopper was left out of the voting! Why can’t the Left get respect like this? Because we don’t raise enough HELL!!
Hope your team is doing OK today. Mine is behind and likely will stay behind! ARG!!!
Let us know how your TGD repast w/ Wendy went. Your menu sounded great!
WRT the cartoon: So where can one find that super-hybrid Fidget Spinner w/ the Queen?
And WRT Twitler’s temper tantrum over NOT being Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” – here’s my vote:
I was reading earlier today that Briskman informed her employer, a federal government contractor, and was promptly fired. Apparently someone started a gofundme page with a goal of $100K for her and it is at $73K. Talk about your 1st amendment rights being snookered!
Kudos to Briskman!
See today’s Open Thread.
My vote too!
4:18 (5:30) Probably too sweet.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving feast, both of you wonders. It certainly did sound magnificent. I’m just glad to have made it home and anticipate a wray and chips (but my crockpot Thursday did turn out delicious, so there’s that.)
NYT – The Times knows what thet are doing – and more to the point, they know what Republicans are doing, and they figure that making all their heads explode is not going to help in the long run. Also that we can beat them on their own terms. Surely one of the Founding Fathers addressed this, if not in this context. (P.S. It seems to me that reading obituaries would even be faster than combing the elector rolls for voting records.)
Cartoon – Truly fine people WANT to be good citizens, and DON’T want to just “skate.” In this connection, did everyone nootice that Obama reported for jury duty recently? (No, he wasn’t empaneled, but bu God he reported.)
I saw the report on the news of Obama reporting for jury duty. He was not asked to sit which does not surprise me. He is too new out of the WH and the presidency and would be a distraction for any case. But then that is up to the prosecutor and the defence to decide on the appropriateness of each prospective juror. Had that be Drumpf, he would have snivelled his way out of it somehow . . . butt spurs (hemorrhoids) not allowing him to sit for long periods.
LOL! I fear (or do I hope, or simply expect?) that he will be a distraction for a jury for the rest of his life. Plus, many attorneys are unnerved at the thought of ANY other attorney sitting on a jury and, um, forming opinions on their competence, and then discussing it with the rest of the jury. Colorado used to exempt attorneys and judges from jury duty, but apparently it was discovered that requiring everyone, all the way up to the Governor (and all the way down to convicted felons not currently incarcerated), to report has a good effect on getting people to show up who privately think they are too important to serve.
Voter suppression is one of the GOPig’s favorite toys…they are aware that they can not win without it!
Hope you are feeling better, TC.
I vote for Juli Briskman, too!
Puzzle — 5:09 Too much sugar for me. There is so much sugar that my teeth are standing up and saluting!
NY Times — The only way Republicans, with their extreme socially regressive and fiscally irresponsible agenda, can win is to suppress the vote, the traditional Democrat voters — African American, Latino, working class etc.
Cartoon — Kudos to HRM!
Kitty seems to be doing OK. His brother has been looking after him. They must have had a chat over night about having a poop or going to the doctor’s for a rather rude procedure. The litter box won! I am still watching him and will give him some pumpkin tomorrow which he loves!!!
Hope your dinner was good, so good that you could not move afterwards! Hi to Wonder Woman Wendy!
Kudos to kitty dumper!
Hope you and Wonder Woman Wendy have enjoyed the bleated Thanksgiving dinner., TomCat. And your day off too, of course.
NYT: “…mistakenly bumping legitimate voters”? This administration and this GOP?
This notice with the threat to sue when not complied with, sent by The Public Interest Legal Foundation (don’t you just love the names these right-wingers have the audacity to call themselves) is pure and plain voter suppression. Democratic voter suppression, that is.
Cartoon: A traitor? Not really.
Even royalty turned out to be Republican.
Thanks all! Tired hugs!