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LaMouffette

(2,039 posts)
Mon Jan 24, 2022, 04:45 PM Jan 2022

How about in addition to a massive GOTV campaign, we Dems conduct state audits of our own?

These would be "Democracy Audits," highly publicized audits to clearly demonstrate where each state government stands as far as their ability to represent the will of their people and to protect the right to vote for all the citizens of their state.

They would be graded on such things as gerrymandering, voter suppression laws, and even on the sources of campaign donations for each of their Senators and Representatives.

The states would be ranked from most democratic to least. I'm sure we can predict how that would look already, but the whole point would be to make a big stink about it so that it makes the news over the course of the months leading up to the November elections.

Would this make Republicans in office wake up and say, "Oh my God! You're right! We've been soooo unfair! Let's fix things!"

Of course not! The whole purpose of the Democracy Audits campaign would be publicity. To rip the curtain back in a big way that gets covered by the mainstream media with the same furor with which the Cyber Ninja voter fraud audits in Arizona got covered.

Anyway, just throwin' an idea out there.

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