They’ve closed down thousands of voting locations in Republican controlled states like Texas and Georgia. All the closures are in predominately black neighbourhoods. Some polling stations are now meant to take votes from tens of thousands of people and can be hours on public transport to get to.

It’s mass disenfranchisement.

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I get it so you have people having to provide ID, then they only have 1 voting booth, someone faffs in the booth splitting the ticket, only one place to vote in an area with 50,000 people that makes sense.

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Compare all this bullshit to that story a wee while back about the efforts they go to with the Indian election to ensure everyone has access to voting.

Not to claim that India is democratically perfect, but the US is just openly corrupt on a fundamental and basic level innit.

This, or something similar:

for the law demands that every citizen of India be given a voting location within two kilometers of their home

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more often than not i just walk right up to the desk, without even a single person ahead of me. Usually in and out in under 5 mins

Save it for Thursday?

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Are you sure about this?

Georgia is one of nine states with so-called “use it or lose it” laws that allow inactive voters to have their registrations canceled. In December last year 309,000 registered voters were removed from the electoral roll, ie. about 4% of the electorate.

I don’t know how you look at stuff like this and the Iowa primary and think the US will even remotely be a functional democracy in a decade’s time. The Democrats won’t fight back against any of this stuff once in power, it’ll all be down the memory hole and working with our friends across the aisle again. They almost certainly aren’t going to expand the supreme court, too much like actual politics that.

It’ll probably still have the bunting and the fanfare, but like fuck is the American fascist/millionaire compact going to continue letting the poors vote on anything even in a completely compromised system for much longer.

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this is fine

Ginsburg should have retired years ago and the Democrats shouldn’t have shat the bed in 2014/2016 - but she didn’t and they did. Maybe next time these people won’t arrogantly assume they’ll be in power forever

(also the whole Supreme Court system is stupid but as I mentioned before the Democrats aren’t that fussed about changing it anyway)

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this thread on current (and historical) voter suppression is a must-read

Although even if they wanted to try to do real change is it worth trying? Look at ‘Obamacare’ - fundamentally a tiny little change that the Republicans did everything in their power to retard from going through and have since dismantled (or tried, I lose track).

Obamacare is still going strong: this year 11.4 million people bought plans during the annual enrollment period, only marginally down from 12.6 million in 2016. It is particularly popular with women, middle-aged Americans and those with pre-existing conditions. The Republicans can’t get rid of it because the unpopular features make the popular features possible.

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Now that’s what I call legislative design

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Not sure about this NOW album series rebrand

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Fresh funky bills, straight from the Hill

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Has anyone seen Mitt and Frances Weetman in the same room at the same time?

Weetman blocked my Twitter alt account this week. Swear to god I didn’t even troll her

Vile, vituperative, hate-filled morass is good tho

oh look

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Motherfucker’s named Mitt

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