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Poll Monitor meets Nasty Women... (Original Post) kpete Oct 2016 OP
K & R ......that's funny! nt Wounded Bear Oct 2016 #1
Wow, he lost his cap. Coyotl Oct 2016 #2
1982 RNC CONSENT DECREE against voter suppression. If Trumpettes violate it, the Decree will BlueCaliDem Oct 2016 #3
Rachel Maddow was on target last night. longship Oct 2016 #4
Trumpettes are on the look out for suspicious skin colors IronLionZion Oct 2016 #5
They fear ALL women NastyRiffraff Oct 2016 #6

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
3. 1982 RNC CONSENT DECREE against voter suppression. If Trumpettes violate it, the Decree will
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 10:26 AM
Oct 2016

be extended another EIGHT years (while it's due to sunset in December 2017). The RNC has tried to get rid of it back in 2009, but a Federal Judge in New Jersey, Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise, didn't find any evidence that Republicans have learned their lesson, and kept the Decree in place.

[center]1982 RNC CONSENT DECREE:[/center]
[center]Republican observers at polling places:[/center]
1. May not question voters about their credentials
2. May not impede or delay voters by asking for identification
3. May not videotape, photograph, or otherwise make visual records of voters or their vehicles
4. May not handout any literature outlining the fact that voter fraud is a crime or detailing the penalties under any state or federal statute for impermissibly casting a ballot

Rachel Maddow covered this over a period of two days. I never knew anything like this existed, but it goes to show that the DNC had to SUE the RNC for voter suppression violations in the early 1980's, and if Trump successfully riles up his Trumpsters to engage in this ant-democratic behavior at the polls, the Consent Decree imposed on Republicans will be extended another EIGHT YEARS.

Obviously, the RNC are terrified that will happen.

Trumpsters - who are as ignorant about this legal rule as I was - might engage in voter suppression tactics because Don-the-Con has been telling them to. If that happens, the Decree will be extended another 8 years.

longship

(40,416 posts)
4. Rachel Maddow was on target last night.
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 11:04 AM
Oct 2016

Especially with the "Crazy Eddie" connection. Leave to a geek like her to dive deeply into the story and get some historic connections that nobody else but a geek would expose. She amazingly connected the dots. As always.

Love Rachel.

IronLionZion

(45,442 posts)
5. Trumpettes are on the look out for suspicious skin colors
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 12:29 PM
Oct 2016

They're already out in full force in many swing state precincts. They are truly shocked by how many "illegals" seem to have proper identification and many even have very convincing American accents.

Since they're too dumb to separate liberal women from conservative women.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
6. They fear ALL women
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 12:59 PM
Oct 2016

by definition. They know damn well that Hillary has an enormous advantage among women. Call us Nasty, eh, Trump? We'll show you nasty! We will humiliate you at the polls. No violence needed.

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