{"id":30438,"date":"2017-11-26T07:52:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T15:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30438"},"modified":"2017-11-26T07:52:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T15:52:06","slug":"personal-update-11-26-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/26\/personal-update-11-26-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update – 11\/26\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s celebration day, so I’m taking a day off.  Wonder Woman Wendy is due in about an hour.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 4:18 (average 5:30).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Take<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>On its face, the notice sent to 248 county election officials<\/a> asked only that they do what Congress has ordered: Prune their rolls of voters who have died, moved or lost their eligibility \u2014 or face a federal lawsuit.<\/p>\n

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 \u2014 an issue that will be a marquee argument before the Supreme Court in January.<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

The political ramifications are as close as a history book. Florida\u2019s 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<\/a>, misidentified thousands of legitimate voters as criminals, and prevented at least 1,100 of them \u2014 some say thousands more \u2014 from casting ballots.<\/p>\n

That was the election in which George W. Bush\u2019s 537-vote margin in Florida secured his place in the White House. Controlling the rules of elections \u2014 including who is on or off the rolls \u2014 has been both a crucial part of political strategy and a legal battleground ever since.<\/p>\n

The Times is asking the wrong question. Mistakenly<\/strong> bumping legitimate voters as well is not the problem. The problem is Republicans intentionally<\/strong> bumping legitimate Democratic Voters, a key component of maintaining a Republican Reich. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","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\/30438","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=30438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}