{"id":13670,"date":"2014-09-14T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T07:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13670"},"modified":"2014-09-14T00:01:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T07:01:21","slug":"will-republicans-steal-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/14\/will-republicans-steal-the-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Republicans Steal the Vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican Party is facing an ever increasing problem.  They can count up all the millionaires and billionaires with no sense of their civic responsibility.  They can add in all the racists, homophobes, misogynists, polluters, militias, warmongers, hatemongers, pseudo-Christians, etc.,  for whose support the Republican party has sold their soul.  They can add to that all the fools stupid enough to watch and believe the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise<\/em>.  They still won\u2019t have enough to hold power.  That leaves just one last thing.  If they can disenfranchise enough of the majority, they may be able to steal the vote.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"GOPvoting\"In the summer of 2012, Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R) bragged<\/a> that the voter ID law he\u2019d helped pass was \u201cgonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.\u201d That law was short-lived: a federal judge issued a ruling that, as the New York Times reported<\/a>, the law \u201champered the ability of hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians to cast their ballots, with the burden falling most heavily on elderly, disabled and low-income residents, and that the state\u2019s reason for the law \u2014 that it was needed to combat voter fraud \u2014 was not supported by the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n

This summer, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp was caught in a moment of candor when he warned a crowd of fellow Republicans: \u201cThe Democrats are working hard\u2026 registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines, [and] if they can do that, they can win these elections in November.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act last June, it was an open invitation to states with a history of voting discrimination \u2013 previously required to clear voting restrictions with the Department of Justice \u2013 to enact laws that made it harder for traditionally Democratic-leaning groups to cast a ballot. The demographic headwinds facing the GOP, rather than the mythical specter of voter fraud<\/a>, motivated those legislatures to do so with gusto. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, 22 states have enacted new voting restrictions since the Republican \u201cwave\u201d election in 2010<\/strong>. For 15 of them, this November will be the first test<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the fight for voting rights continues in the courts. On Thursday, Richard Wolf reported for USA Today that a series of challenges to various states\u2019 restrictive voting laws may ultimately send the Voting Rights Act back to the Supreme Court<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Bill Moyers<\/a>><\/p>\n

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This situation has me nervous as a hooker getting a VD test after a  pseudo-Christian convention!  Under Roberts, the Fascist Five Injustices of SCROTUS has shown that they like to dismantle out rights incrementally.  As they showed in the follow on cases to Hobby Lobby<\/em>, with each new case they take more.  They will say, of course, that Congress has the power to change it, knowing full well that Congress will do no such thing, as long as a minority can stay in charge of the House.  Therefore we must<\/font><\/p>\n

Get Out The Vote!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican Party is facing an ever increasing problem.  They can count up all the millionaires and billionaires with no sense of their civic responsibility.  They can add in all the racists, homophobes, misogynists, polluters, militias, warmongers, hatemongers, pseudo-Christians, etc.,  for whose support the Republican party has sold their soul.  They can add to that […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}