How states are working to steal elections

[pnwmom]

This was written a year ago and it's just as true today. We saw the evidence in November.

While the MSM is busy extracting mea culpas from Hillary, they're overlooking their own culpability -- in equating her weaknesses with DT's evils -- and the massive voter suppression going on in the states.

https://qz.com/687408/how-local-politicians-are-quietly-working-to-steal-the-us-presidential-election/

In early May 2016, the Missouri state legislature submitted a bill to the governor requiring that citizens must show photo ID in order to vote. Democrats staged an all-night filibuster opposing the measure, noting that it could potentially disenfranchise over 220,000 voters who who lack proper ID. Missouri attorney Steve Harman noted the bill would most likely affect black Missourians—11% of the population—and that it echoed the political aims of Jim Crow. As is true in most states, there has never been a case of voter fraud in Missouri history, leading many legislators to question the true intent of the law.

Missouri is known as “the bellwether state,” having voted for the winning candidate in all but one presidential election between 1904 and 2008. Obama lost the state in both elections, but in 2008, he lost by a mere 3903 votes. Imagine what that result would have looked like had 220,000 voters—among them his black Democratic base—been unable to cast their ballots.

In swing states like Missouri, voter ID laws that disenfranchise non-white voters could potentially influence the outcome of national elections. In this case, purple states like Missouri may in the future turn blazing red.

Missouri’s law will not be passed in time to impact the 2016 race. But it is part of a growing trend of states that have passed or moved toward restrictive voter ID laws as America’s population grows increasingly diverse. In 2016, 17 states will have new voting restrictions in place for the first time in a presidential election: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

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[Cha]

1. Thank you, pnwmom.. KnR!

One of the reasons the pervert was rigged in.. Voter Suppression.

[Gothmog]

2. The GOP is the party of voter suppression and relies on voter suppression to win races

The GOP has to cheat to win elections

[loyalsister]

3. MO is not purple

And, the policies mentioned are not a way of "stealing" an election. It's a stupid headline because it's important that these are legal measures that may bias elections, rather than physically stealing votes.

[pnwmom]

4. Voter suppression may or may not be legal -- courts vary. But these tactics are stealing

the rights of people to vote -- and not be targeted because of their race or poverty.

[loyalsister]

5. By all means use hyperbole if that works for you

But, it suppresses turnout. Then, who will have "stolen" an election for republicans?

[pnwmom]

6. Fighting onerous voting ID laws doesn't suppress turnout. Ignoring these laws does. n/t

[loyalsister]

7. Pretending it is theft as in "stolen" is the hyperbole

An process using lefal means is not an illegal act. Using language that suggests actual crime glosses over and extremely important element. These things are legal and our elected officials and in the case of MO (our peers) made it a reality.
To ignore what makes it possible by using language that suggests "secretly and illegally stolen" is an ineffective strategy. "Why vote if the elections are going to be stolen anyway?" is the natural conclusion.
Be proactive and vote to change laws that suppress votes makes more sense linguisticly and conceptually.