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    Voter Fraud is a Myth. Voter Suppression is Not.
    January 25, 2017
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    BALTIMORE, MD— NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks issued the following statement on January 25:

    “Today, President Donald Trump called for the federal government to spend resources investigating alleged ‘voter fraud’ in the 2016 elections. Unable to accept the fact that he lost the popular vote by some 2.8 million votes, President Trump has repeated his naked and reckless claim that 3 to 5 million illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election by “illegal immigrants.” However, this notion of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election, or any other American election cycle for that matter, is false and dangerous.

    “Voter Fraud has been proven virtually non-existent through studies conducted by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, Arizona State University, and the Washington Post, among others. The Washington Post’s 2015 study showed that between 2000 and 2014 there were only 31 alleged cases of in-person voter fraud among the over 1 billion votes cast in the United States during that time period. Yet, this supposed widespread voter fraud is consistently used as justification for voting restrictions that suppress the votes of African-Americans and Latinos.

    “While reasonable people can debate many issues regarding the operation of our electoral process, one thing is clear—widespread voter fraud such as that alleged by President Trump is a complete myth.

    “In stark contrast to the myth of widespread voter fraud is the proven reality of voter suppression. A number of federal courts across the country have determined that certain states enacted voting restrictions that discriminated against Black and Latino Americans, as in Texas, or, worse yet, were written with the specific intent to suppress the Black vote, as in North Carolina. In fact, a federal appellate court held that North Carolina’s law targeted African-American voters with “almost surgical precision.” Voting restrictions such as those recently struck down in Texas, North Carolina and elsewhere weaken our democracy and themselves cast serious doubt on the legitimacy of our electoral processes.

    “If President Trump is serious about strengthening our democracy, he should demand that Congress send him a bill to restore Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, such as the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2015. He should also withdraw the nomination of Senator Jefferson Sessions for Attorney General and put forth a nominee with a record of supporting voting rights for all Americans. And he should acknowledge the widespread voter suppression taking place in this country while rejecting the myth that ‘voter fraud’ justifies blocking access to the ballot box for millions of Black and Latino voters.”
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    Ari Berman‏Verified account @AriBerman 9h9 hours ago
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    Completely hypocritical for Republicans to denounce white supremacy while still supporting racist voter suppression laws[/B]


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    In North Carolina 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that GOP tried to disenfranchise black voters “with almost surgical precision”


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    Ari Berman‏Verified account @AriBerman 46m46 minutes ago
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    In Texas federal court said GOP voter ID law was “unconstitutional poll tax” that intentionally discriminated against black & Latino voters



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    Michael Grunwald‏Verified account @MikeGrunwald 5m5 minutes ago

    Michael Grunwald Retweeted Ari Berman

    Since non-Trump R's agree racists are bad, maybe roll back racist voting crackdowns? Check out @AriBerman timeline.


    I too am carious to see in the next few weeks the "troubled" (R) and their individual stance on Voting Rights
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    How many people were affected by Ohio’s voter purges? More than a few — a temporary order by an appeals court last fall restored voting rights to over 800,000 people who’d been purged since 2015. That’s a lot of people disenfranchised for the sole offense of failing to vote in two consecutive federal elections. The rule was enforced vigorously — but unevenly — by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, who has made a career of suppressing votes; in 2012, he refused to comply with a court order demanding Ohio restore early voting hours that had been cut, since he feared voters would be “confused” by having more opportunities to exercise their franchise.

    Read more at https://wonkette.com/621540/trump-do...7fWOITK56to.99
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    Here’s a bill to restore voting rights protections. It has 187 cosponsors. None are Republicans. Deeds matter.

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-...978/cosponsors
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    Notice the crickets from our conservative friends when confronted with facts not originating from Fox news? Republicants and preservatives are very happy to take any election gotten thru any form of cheating. #deplorable

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    Quote Originally Posted by 57Brave View Post
    How many people were affected by Ohio’s voter purges? More than a few — a temporary order by an appeals court last fall restored voting rights to over 800,000 people who’d been purged since 2015. That’s a lot of people disenfranchised for the sole offense of failing to vote in two consecutive federal elections. The rule was enforced vigorously — but unevenly — by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, who has made a career of suppressing votes; in 2012, he refused to comply with a court order demanding Ohio restore early voting hours that had been cut, since he feared voters would be “confused” by having more opportunities to exercise their franchise.

    Read more at https://wonkette.com/621540/trump-do...7fWOITK56to.99
    Ken Blackwell is on Trump's scam vote fraud commission, too. He was the Sec of State in Ohio during the 04 election.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mossy View Post
    Notice the crickets from our conservative friends when confronted with facts not originating from Fox news? Republicants and preservatives are very happy to take any election gotten thru any form of cheating. #deplorable
    Democrats have done the same thing especially here in Wisconsin.

    Both sides do it.

    We avoid 57 and his constant yelping. The board idiot can't help it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AerchAngel View Post
    Both sides do it.
    You're in trouble now...

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    Don't care.

    You can't trust Democrats and most blacks don't. They fudge statistics and crap like this, like we actually care? LOL

    At least a Republican will tell you in your face, we ain't helping you. You help yourself. I am cool with that, just don't lie to me like the other side.

    Anyway, like this thread, it is throwing stones but not taking care of your own house. LIke I said BOTH sides do it.

    http://nypost.com/2017/07/14/the-vot...refuse-to-see/

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.b6b33b92974d

    http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/v...ry.asp?id=2216

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    Ari Berman‏Verified account @AriBerman 2h2 hours ago

    Speaking of racism: Federal court ruled today that Texas GOP Congressional maps intentionally discriminated against Latino & black voters




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    Ari Berman‏Verified account @AriBerman 15m15 minutes ago

    As Trump defends white supremacy Texas GOP found guilty of intentionally discriminating against minority voters
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    Rachel Joy Larris‏Verified account @RachelLarris 2h2 hours ago

    "Bigotry is counter to all this country stands for" but gerrymandering to "target African Americans with almost surgical precision" is GOP
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    2nd time this week Texas has been found in violation of Voting Rights Act

    Texas voting law on language interpreters violates Voting Rights Act, court says


    Texas violated the Voting Rights Act by restricting the interpretation assistance English-limited voters may receive, a federal appeals court ruled.

    https://www.texastribune.org/2017/08...itutional/amp/
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    BREAKING: Another major victory in our Texas #VoterID case. Court finds TX acted with discriminatory intent and bars implementation of law.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 57Brave View Post
    Rachel Joy Larris‏Verified account @RachelLarris 2h2 hours ago

    "Bigotry is counter to all this country stands for" but gerrymandering to "target African Americans with almost surgical precision" is GOP
    the thing about that is, while racially based gerrymandering is illegal/unconstitutional, politically based gerrymandering is totally legal and constitutional and it usually considered a perk of winning control of the state in question's legislature during the elections of years ending in zero. And if the Dems want to turn this trend around they'd better be listening to people like me who offer advice that can actually help them win rather than some of your hardcore "but we really won last time and Russia and they cheated, and so on". It doesn't even matter if every one of those claims is true it's still not going to help your guys win. So, do you want to be morally superior and get your pound of flesh about the 2016 election, or do you want to crank off 4 or 5 election wins in a row?

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