Amidst the noise about voter fraud coming from the demagogue representing the Republican Party and his minions , it is important to note that probably the biggest fraud being perpetrated on voters is voter suppression.
In North Carolina a state which Donald Trump must win to have a chance at winning the white house, on Saturday voters stood in line for hours to cast their votes.
Saturday is the last of early voting days before the elections on November 8th.
CNN’s Gary Tuchman interviewed people standing in a line which snaked around buildings with no end in sight. In Nevada on Friday the lines were never ending as voters stood in the stifling heat to cast their votes. One commentator said it was outrageous and worse than a banana republic.
Does anyone believe there is a legitimate reason for people to stand in line for hours to vote except that those in authority does not want them to vote?
That is voter suppression!!!!
In a state run by a Republican legislature and republican Governor Pat McCrory there has been a sustained attempts to drastically disallow minority voters the right to vote. These action includes lessening of days voters can vote early, drastically less voting places and purging the names of black voters from voters lists.
In response to a lawsuit filed by the state’s NAACP U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs slammed an ongoing North Carolinian voter purge during a dramatic Wednesday hearing, telling county attorneys that she was “horrified” by the “insane” process by which voters could be removed from the rolls without their knowledge. “It almost looks like a cattle call, the way people are being purged,” Biggs said. “This sounds like something that was put together in 1901,” when the state used Jim Crow laws to prevent black citizens from casting a ballot.
According to the website Slate.com Biggs called a hearing after the NAACP sued several North Carolina counties for purging nearly 6,700 voters — most of them black Democrats — from the rolls. These purges were legal under a state law that permits any person to revoke any other person’s voting rights. The process is simple: An individual gathers mail that was returned as undeliverable, then challenges the voter registration of residents at those addresses. If those voters do not appear at a county board of elections or return a notarized form, their voting rights are nullified.
Let’s see this for what it is , the Republican Party has not made it a secret that it’s goal is to suppress black votes. Trumps lackeys detail how they intend to do it openly . Last cycle elected officials in the state of Pennsylvania detailed how they intended to suppress the vote and deliver the elections to Mitt Romney in a state which has been more and more Democratic over the last several cycles.
When people turn out to vote Democrats win .
Placing barriers in the way of black people’s ability to exercise their right to vote guarantees wins for republicans.
So the ridiculous noise you hear coming from the political right is merely a distraction designed to fool you into believing that there are people actually going into polling stations at the peril of being arrested to cast votes for Democrats.
Ironically the last two idiots who tried to do that were actually Trump’s supporters and they were promptly busted.
The idea behind the constant noise about election rigging is a distraction so you won’t see what they are doing in actually rigging the vote in favor of the Republicans.
In state after state Federal courts are now ordering that voters who had their names purged from voters lists must have their names restored so they may vote.
There is a giant sleigh of hand by Republicans in play, because Republicans refuse to face the glaring fact that the face of the country is changing fast.
Voter suppression methods being employed, the demonizing of Immigrants. The idea of making America great again. not wanting to be political correct. (you know they still want to call you “nigger” to your face without consequence). Taking their country back.
All of this is about the browning of America and a Republican party which went all in with it’s core of white voters who want to go back to a time than never was.
It is particularly amusing that the likes of Ben Carson who parrot the not wanting to be politically correct narrative, misses the idea why Republicans do not want to be politically correct.
The Republican party made a pact with the devil when it allowed those who hated the idea of blacks being given their God given rights to freedom equality and justice a home.
It never repudiated the neo conservative viewpoint which advocates an America which is dominated by white men. It did not repudiate the Tea-party. It did not repudiate the Alt-Right . It allowed the ignorant ramblings of a barely semi-literate Sarah Palin to become mainstream policy decisions.
On November 8th the party will once again lose the biggest political prize- the Presidency to a vastly unpopular woman. She will become the 45th President of the United States , yes a woman , following the nation’s first African-American President. She will win despite her extremely low approval ratings because the nation has moved on from the divisive politics of the right and a republican party which still clings to the notion that America is a country of white men , for white men and by white men.…
The Party will continue to splinter as it tenaciously cling to policies that have long ago been repudiated.