"The Republicans already know they can’t win in November playing by the rules. Not even with the twisted mathematical formula that is the Electoral College. They have no policies, their leading candidate is a convicted rapist and con man facing 88 criminal charges and four court cases - one of them coming up in a matter of weeks - who is quite clearly losing his faculties."
"Furthermore, the Republican assault on abortion rights is not only massively unpopular across the country but it has galvanized the Democratic opposition in a way not seen in American politics since…I dunno. Long damned time.
Which leaves them with violence and intimidation as two of the biggest weapons in their arsenal to win in November by any means necessary."
A #Texas appeals court reversed the conviction of #CrystalMason, a Black woman, who had been sentenced to 5 yrs in prison on a charge of illegally voting in 2016, acquitting her in a case that #CivilRights attys cast as part of a broader fight for #VotingRights.
Mason voted w/a provisional ballot in 2016 but did not know she was ineligible to do so. The ballot WAS NOT COUNTED, but she was convicted in 2018.
#Texas 2nd Court of Appeals Judge Wade Birdwell ruled that there was not enough evidence to show #CrystalMason had known she was ineligible to vote.
The case had been seen as an example of a #GOP-led crackdown on alleged [BS] voter fraud in TX, & Mason’s attys framed it as an attempt at intimidating other voters, particularly people of color & those returning from prison, by making an example of Mason. #law#ElectionLaw#VoterIntimidation#VoteSuppression#BlackVotesMatter#democracy#VoteBlue
#CrystalMason, a fmr tax preparer, had served a prison sentence for fed tax fraud after pleading guilty to inflating her clients’ tax returns in 2012 & was on supervised release in 2016.
She didn’t know that made her ineligible to vote when she cast a provisional ballot at her polling place in #Texas. She went to vote w/her family & was told by a poll worker that she wasn’t on the rolls but could fill out a provisional ballot. #law#GOP#VoterIntimidation#BlackVotesMatter#democracy#VoteBlue
She had no idea she would soon be indicted on a charge of illegal voting. She later said that she would not have jeopardized her freedom by submitting a ballot & would have left the polling place if she’d known she wasn’t allowed to vote. #Election workers checking provisional ballots — as is routine — later determined Mason was ineligible, so her ballot was never counted.
#Police in Plymouth Township, #Michigan are investigating whether a lighting system that was set up by a mystery person to flash when someone approached a #ballot#DropBox was an attempt to #intimidate#voters.
James Knittel, the Twsp chief of the #police, said in the weeks before #Michigan's Feb 27 presidential #primary, the mystery person installed a fake camera on a pole near the drop box & a device that was similar to a motion detector.
Knittel said it appeared the person intended for the device to flash when someone walked up to the #ballot#DropBox "as if it was taking a picture.”
PlymouthTwp posted an image Tues on FB of the person who installed the equipment at the #ballot#DropBox outside Risen Christ Lutheran Church on AnnArbor Rd, which also was an #EarlyVoting location. The post from the twp asked anyone w/info on the individual to contact the #police at (734) 354-3250.
The twp had its own cameras monitoring the drop box which captured images of the person installing the fake camera in Jan & the solar-powered lighting device in early Feb.
> Local Labs – which calls its work both political research and journalism – is demanding voters’ details across the country to back claims of election fraud
@BigAngBlack The enemies of American democracy have organized to disrupt & obstruct every chance of free & fair elections.
Terrorism is intolerable & unnegotiable.
“The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible, so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all that is left.”
— Abraham Lincoln —
@marcelias Apparently there is no act of human kindness & compassion today's "Republicans" wouldn't punish to fraudulently suppress voters, who could make the "GOP" look as electorally small & irrelevant as they really are.
Codified electoral fraud is still, what it is: Fraud, violating the Constitution & human rights, Mr Raffensperger!
@marcelias Anti-democratic "Republican" adversaries of the Constitution already spread the subversive plague of vigilantism at the time of the midterms.
One of them: Cleta Mitchell, still unindicted in Georgia, despite having been on Trump's infamous "Find-me-votes"-call with Brad Raffensperger.
Comment: abortion & erasure of transgender persons I predict will the key wedge strategies in Republican culture wars leading into the 2024 U.S. elections : noise, disinformation, & identity politics to (1) to divide the electorate, & (2) through information overload induce apathy & dissuade voters from participating / voting - allowing enough of their supporters to elect GOP candidates. ...
Supermajorities denying those who disagree with them the right even to debate ideas in a legislature, first in Tennessee, now in Montana — while openly attacking their identities and using “insurrection” to describe any form of protest is wrong, undemocratic, and unconstitutional.
@TonyStark How did today's "Republicans" accomplish these "supermajorities"?
Everyone needs to be aware that it were true Republicans, who introduced & passed the Fifteenth Amendment, the 1st of 3 Reconstruction Amendments, & that it's today's so-called "Republicans", who are constantly & intentionally violating it, to sabotage the will of the majority of American voters.
What does the 15th Amendment mandate?
"Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."