Michigan is one of several states where the Republican-controlled legislatures are considering changing the way electoral college votes are determined. The proposal here is to have the electoral votes divided up by congressional district rather than a winner-take-all where whoever wins the popular vote gets all of the state’s electoral votes. The arguments they’re using …
Category Archive: Voting Rights
Jan 21 2013
More Exaggerated Voter Fraud Claims Debunked
As usual, a conservative group is wildly exaggerating the existence of voter fraud to further their political agenda of suppressing the poor and minority vote. This time it’s the Club for Growth claiming that there were thousands of fraudulent votes in Minnesota in 2008:
Jan 20 2013
Rick Scott Plays Pretend on Boondoggle Election Law
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida certainly doesn’t lack for chutzpah. Meeting with a group of black legislators who expressed their concern over the election law changes that resulted in long lines and tens of thousands of people being unable to vote, Scott says don’t blame him, it wasn’t his law.
Jan 18 2013
SCOTUS Denies Cert in GOP Voter Suppression Case
The Supreme Court denied cert, without comment, in an appeal filed by the Republican National Committee to lift a consent decree they agreed to in 1982 requiring the court’s approval before instituting any “ballot security” measures such as voter caging.
Jan 17 2013
RNC Chair Wants Blue States to Split Electoral Votes
Since their voter suppression schemes around the country didn’t prevent the Democrats from winning the 2012 election, the Republicans are now floating a different plan to rig the vote in their favor by splitting the electoral college votes — but only in states that tend to vote Democratic in presidential elections, of course. RNC Chairman …
Jan 04 2013
Tens of Thousands Denied Vote in Florida Due to Long Lines
Much has been written, including by me, about the innumerable ways the Republicans tried to suppress the vote this year by making it more difficult for people to cast a ballot. One of the ways they do that is by trying to make the lines longer so more people have to leave before getting a …
Jan 02 2013
Did the GOP’s Voter Suppression Efforts Backfire?
Much was written over the last two years, including by me, about the Republican party’s attempts all across the country to suppress the votes of poor and minority voters and make it more difficult for them to get to the polls. But a new report from Pew concludes that black voters, in particular, voted in …
Nov 30 2012
Virginia AG Agrees Obama Stole the Election
Ken Cuccinelli, the extremely far right attorney general of Virginia, went on a wingnut radio show that has been making outrageous allegations that Obama stole the election and completely agreed with the hosts that what they’re saying is correct and that they were “preaching to the choir.”
Nov 27 2012
FL GOP Insiders Admit Voter Suppression Efforts
The Palm Beach Post reports on several Republican insiders, including the former Republican governor of Florida, who are admitting what was obvious to anyone paying attention, that the GOP initiatives in that state on voting were designed to suppress the votes of poor and minority voters to help them win the election. One of them …
Nov 21 2012
Dean Chambers Rewrites his Rewrite
If you thought Dean Chambers’ total humiliation after months of claiming that the polls, if “unskewed,” were predicting a massive landslide electoral victory for Mitt Romney, was just going to admit he was wrong and slink away into the dustbin of right wing history, think again. He’s back for another round of public humiliation — …
Nov 19 2012
Republican Myths About Overvoting
Joseph Farah and many others are screaming “voter fraud!” based on some easily debunked numbers, though it’s clear they haven’t even tried to check them out. For example, they’re claiming that in St. Lucie County, Florida, there were more ballots cast than eligible voters:
Nov 15 2012
Gov. Rick Scott Orders Election Review
Florida Gov. Rick Scott seems to be baffled by why so many people had to wait so long to vote in his state during the 2012 election. So much so that he’s ordered a review of the entire voting process to find out what happened and how to fix it:
Nov 14 2012
Farah’s ‘Evidence’ of Voter Fraud
Joseph Farah of the Worldnutdaily is just sure that Obama stole the election through voter fraud, especially in Ohio. After spending several paragraphs explaining why he isn’t a conspiracy nut, along with irrelevant boilerplate about Bill Ayers and Saul Alinsky, he produces the “evidence” he has for his ridiculous claim:
Nov 13 2012
SCOTUS to Hear Voting Rights Act Challenge
As predicted, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted cert in a case challenging a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. That provision is the one that requires some or all of 16 states to get prior approval from the DOJ before making any rule that could have a negative effect on the voting rights …
Nov 13 2012
Husted About to Get Smacked Down Again
Jon Husted, the Ohio Secretary of State, has done absolutely everything he could to suppress the vote in that state and has already lost more than one lawsuit over it. It looks like he’s about to lose another one, over the counting of provisional ballots, which are to be counted by Nov. 17.
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