Showing posts with label Election Theft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Election Theft. Show all posts

Thursday, February 28, 2013

The Neo-Confederate Supreme Court Gearing Up to Restore White Rule Over America | Alternet

The Neo-Confederate Supreme Court Gearing Up to Restore White Rule Over America | Alternet
"If the GOP can’t rig future elections to give greater weight to white votes and less value to the votes of blacks, Hispanics, Asian-Americans and urban white youth (who accept the nation’s new multiculturalism), then the right-wing cause will almost surely be lost."

Bill Blum: The Political Forces Behind the Attack on the Voting Rights Act - Truthdig

Bill Blum: The Political Forces Behind the Attack on the Voting Rights Act - Truthdig
"Those organizations—whose ranks range from well-known right-wing think tanks such as the Federalist Society and the American Enterprise and Cato institutes to relatively obscure nonprofits such as the Virginia-based DonorsTrust foundation and the Project on Fair Representation—form a de facto alliance that aims at nothing less than a wholesale transformation of constitutional law to limit, if not altogether prohibit, the use of federal power on behalf of historically oppressed minorities. The Voting Rights Act is simply the target of the day."

SCOTUS Conservatives Signal Intention to Dismantle Voting Rights Act

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Monday, February 25, 2013

Michigan GOP Overwhelmingly Backs Election Rigging Plan

Michigan GOP Overwhelmingly Backs Election Rigging Plan: On Saturday, Republicans at the Michigan GOP’s convention in Lansing voted by an overwhelming 1,370-132 margin to back a plan that would “divvy-up 14 of the state’s 16 electoral votes according to which candidate got the most votes in each congressional district.” This is one of two election-rigging plans favored by Republicans in several key [...]/p

Saturday, February 23, 2013

13 GOP Pennsylvania Senators Introduce New Plan To Rig The Electoral College For Republicans

13 GOP Pennsylvania Senators Introduce New Plan To Rig The Electoral College For Republicans: Earlier this year, Republican National Committee Chair urged Republican lawmakers in states “that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red” — i.e. blue states with Republican legislatures and governors — to enact a plan rigging the Electoral College so that it would be almost impossible for a Democrat to win the White House. [...]/p