{"id":34349,"date":"2018-11-14T12:52:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T20:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34349"},"modified":"2018-11-14T12:52:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T20:52:34","slug":"more-republican-vote-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/14\/more-republican-vote-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"More Republican Vote Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Judging from the idiotic behavior of about half the country, you could never recognize this fact.&#160; In a democratic republic the most precious possession of every citizen is their right to vote.&#160; When someone interferes with your right to have your vote counted, you do not live in a democratic republic.&#160; You live in a Republican Reich.&#160; Republicans are doing everything inhumanly possible to steal votes.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1114floridarecount\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1114floridarecount\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1114floridarecount.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[M]aybe it was inevitable. Since John Roberts and the Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/legal-work\/shelby-county-v-holder\" target=\"_blank\">gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013<\/a>, essentially on the basis that racism was over, the Republican Party has established itself as a political organization dedicated to preventing Certain People from voting\u2014or having their vote counted. Republicans cooked up the idea the United States has a widespread problem of voter fraud\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/analysis\/debunking-voter-fraud-myth\" target=\"_blank\">there is exactly zero evidence this problem exists<\/a>\u2014and responded to this fantastical issue by instituting voter-ID laws, signature-match policies, address requirements, and curtailing early-voting periods, among others. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/02\/how-voter-id-laws-discriminate-study\/517218\/\" target=\"_blank\">All these policies disproportionately affected poorer people and people of color<\/a>, whom Republicans don&#8217;t want voting because they tend to vote for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Combined with gerrymandering, which in one case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/05\/15\/528457693\/supreme-court-declines-republican-bid-to-revive-north-carolina-voter-id-law\" target=\"_blank\">was ruled by a federal court to have targeted black voters with &quot;surgical precision,&quot;<\/a> the Republican Party&#8217;s strategy was clear. But now that the midterm elections still didn&#8217;t go their way\u2014already, it looks like the Democrats seized control of the House of Representatives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/for-democrats-a-midterm-election-that-keeps-on-giving\/2018\/11\/09\/b4075ef2-e456-11e8-ab2c-b31dcd53ca6b_story.html?utm_term=.7ac073fd71d1\" target=\"_blank\">in the biggest landslide since Watergate<\/a>\u2014they&#8217;ve stepped it up a level. <strong>Republicans are no longer just dedicated to making it harder to vote, and making certain votes count less based on how they draw district lines. They&#8217;re now against counting all the votes, period<\/strong>\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/a25004772\/republicans-count-all-votes-florida-georgia-arizona\/\" target=\"_blank\">Esquire<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for a wealth of detailed information on Republican efforts to steal votes in several locations.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Florida, vote count suppression is so bad that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pcWVAJjXsKw\" target=\"_blank\">a Democratic Senator sued to extend the recount<\/a>, because Republicans stole HIS vote.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/pcWVAJjXsKw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Will we have a democratic republic or a Republican Reich?<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judging from the idiotic behavior of about half the country, you could never recognize this fact.&#160; In a democratic republic the most precious possession of every citizen is their right to vote.&#160; When someone interferes with your right to have your vote counted, you do not live in a democratic republic.&#160; You live in a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/14\/more-republican-vote-theft\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34349","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\/34349","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=34349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}