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In reply to the discussion: What will happen to this country if Rethugs steal the Presidency & control Congress? [View all]HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)I believe the stage is already set for Republican dominance. Evidence?
ID laws -- making it difficult and expensive for the working class and poor to obtain the documentation required to prove citizenship.
Suppression of voting rights. Many states have configured laws to reduce the number of voters who otherwise would have voted Democratic.
Changing poll hours geared to deter working voters who can't take time off to vote. Reducing advance voting in order to deter group assisted voting on Sundays -- like churches taking people to the polls after services.
Locating polls in inaccessible areas. There have been reports of voting locations changed without notice, moved out of poor areas and established in locations that require driving or multiple public transportation transfers.
Irregularities in operations of voting machines. There have been reports of vote-switching.
Engineering long wait-times to access voting machines. Old, broken machines in poor neighborhoods while stacking more affluent areas with more and better machines. Makes a difference if one has to wait 15 minutes to vote verses 2 - 7 hours wait.
And then there's the over-all danger of vote tampering because of the electronic manner of storing and counting votes.
So, when the Republicans have whittled down the number of possible opposition voters, stealing the rest isn't so difficult. I fear the time to stop this machine is long past.
If you want to know what a Republican government (legislative, judicial, executive) would look like, just read the Republic Party Platform. It tells all.