Showing posts with label Vote Rigging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vote Rigging. Show all posts
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Friday, August 16, 2013
Student Voting Rights Under Fire In North Carolina
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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
Thursday, February 21, 2013
GOP Activists Behind Three Troubling Supreme Court Cases Aimed at Dismantling Our Democracy | Alternet
GOP Activists Behind Three Troubling Supreme Court Cases Aimed at Dismantling Our Democracy | Alternet
"Three troubling U.S. Supreme Court cases -- one that has already undermined public participation in elections and two new ones threatening to further tilt the balance toward wealthier and whiter slices of society—have all been brought by Republican activists who want to change the rules to benefit their shrinking political party."
"Three troubling U.S. Supreme Court cases -- one that has already undermined public participation in elections and two new ones threatening to further tilt the balance toward wealthier and whiter slices of society—have all been brought by Republican activists who want to change the rules to benefit their shrinking political party."
Friday, February 8, 2013
How the GOP Plans to Subvert, Buy and Obstruct the Vote in 2016
How the GOP Plans to Subvert, Buy and Obstruct the Vote in 2016
"The GOP knows that they cannot compete unless they change. But instead of trying to compete, they’re trying to change. Change the rules of the game, that is. This is more than a threat to Democrats or progressives. It is a threat to democracy itself. At every turn, patriots believe in the vision our founding fathers passed down to us must defend that vision against these internal threats to our democracy."
"The GOP knows that they cannot compete unless they change. But instead of trying to compete, they’re trying to change. Change the rules of the game, that is. This is more than a threat to Democrats or progressives. It is a threat to democracy itself. At every turn, patriots believe in the vision our founding fathers passed down to us must defend that vision against these internal threats to our democracy."
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Why Are Conservatives Trying to Destroy the Voting Rights Act? | The Nation
Why Are Conservatives Trying to Destroy the Voting Rights Act? | The Nation
"The current campaign against the VRA is the result of three key factors: a whiter, more Southern, more conservative GOP that has responded to demographic change by trying to suppress an increasingly diverse electorate; a twenty-five-year effort to gut the VRA by conservative intellectuals, who in recent years have received millions of dollars from top right-wing funders, including Charles Koch; and a reactionary Supreme Court that does not support remedies to racial discrimination."
"The current campaign against the VRA is the result of three key factors: a whiter, more Southern, more conservative GOP that has responded to demographic change by trying to suppress an increasingly diverse electorate; a twenty-five-year effort to gut the VRA by conservative intellectuals, who in recent years have received millions of dollars from top right-wing funders, including Charles Koch; and a reactionary Supreme Court that does not support remedies to racial discrimination."
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Pennsylvania GOP Has Plan B For 2016 Electoral Vote Hijack
Pennsylvania GOP Has Plan B For 2016 Electoral Vote Hijack
"Undaunted by rejection of their first effort to hijack 2016, Pennsylvania Republicans soldier on with a new scheme for awarding unearned electoral votes to Republican candidates and weakening their state's influence on Federal elections."
"Undaunted by rejection of their first effort to hijack 2016, Pennsylvania Republicans soldier on with a new scheme for awarding unearned electoral votes to Republican candidates and weakening their state's influence on Federal elections."
Republicans Return With a New Scheme to Rig the Electoral College | Common Dreams
Republicans Return With a New Scheme to Rig the Electoral College | Common Dreams
"Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus has been blunt about his determination to rig the Electoral College. So it should come as no surprise that, even after his partisan minions were "named and shamed" into distancing themselves from an initial strategy for gaming presidential politics, keyRepublicans have returned with another plan to make it possible for a GOP loser to "win" the 2016 presidential race."
"Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus has been blunt about his determination to rig the Electoral College. So it should come as no surprise that, even after his partisan minions were "named and shamed" into distancing themselves from an initial strategy for gaming presidential politics, keyRepublicans have returned with another plan to make it possible for a GOP loser to "win" the 2016 presidential race."
Monday, February 4, 2013
Wisconsin's "Shameful" Gerrymander of 2012
Wisconsin's "Shameful" Gerrymander of 2012
"The GOP's partisan redistricting process has come under renewed scrutiny in recent months, with gerrymandered maps helping Republicans hold Congress despite receiving fewer votes than Democrats, and state legislators discussing plans to rig the presidential election by awarding electoral votes according to those contorted boundaries. But out of all the states re-drawing Congressional boundaries along partisan lines after the 2010 elections, Wisconsin's gerrymandering may have been the most egregious."
"The GOP's partisan redistricting process has come under renewed scrutiny in recent months, with gerrymandered maps helping Republicans hold Congress despite receiving fewer votes than Democrats, and state legislators discussing plans to rig the presidential election by awarding electoral votes according to those contorted boundaries. But out of all the states re-drawing Congressional boundaries along partisan lines after the 2010 elections, Wisconsin's gerrymandering may have been the most egregious."
Pennsylvania Republicans To Introduce New Election-Rigging Plan
Pennsylvania Republicans To Introduce New Election-Rigging Plan: Last month, Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus called up “states that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red” to rig future presidential elections by changing the way electoral votes are allocated. Under Priebus’ proposal, blue states such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania would stop awarding electoral votes to the winner of the [...]/p
Monday, January 28, 2013
Michigan’s GOP House Speaker Expresses Support For Election Rigging
Michigan’s GOP House Speaker Expresses Support For Election Rigging: Late last week, democracy scored two important victories over a Republican plan to rig future presidential elections by changing the way electoral votes are counted in several key blue states. Two Virginia Republican state senators spoke out against the plan, effectively killing it. And Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford (R) attacked the election-rigging scheme as [...]/p
Friday, January 25, 2013
ALEC Has Opposed "Popular Vote" Efforts Which Would Protect Against Partisan Rigging of Electoral College
ALEC Has Opposed "Popular Vote" Efforts Which Would Protect Against Partisan Rigging of Electoral College
"The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has actively lobbied against state plans to implement a national popular vote for president, urging state legislators to preserve the Electoral College -- which GOP legislators are now trying to rig to ensure the the next president is a Republican. In late 2011, ALEC officially changed its policy on the Electoral College to implicitly support allocating electoral votes by congressional district."
"The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has actively lobbied against state plans to implement a national popular vote for president, urging state legislators to preserve the Electoral College -- which GOP legislators are now trying to rig to ensure the the next president is a Republican. In late 2011, ALEC officially changed its policy on the Electoral College to implicitly support allocating electoral votes by congressional district."
There's just one way to stop GOP rigging the vote...
All across America - Republicans are working hard to corrupt our democracy - and to rig the 2016 election. How could reforming the American voting process help to put integrity back into the our democracy?
Thursday, January 24, 2013
We Must Stop the Tyrannical Minority
We Must Stop the Tyrannical Minority
"Now that the Republican Party has been hijacked by the Billionaire Class, a very small one-percent sliver of our nation, they've taken unprecedented steps to abuse the Electoral College."
"Now that the Republican Party has been hijacked by the Billionaire Class, a very small one-percent sliver of our nation, they've taken unprecedented steps to abuse the Electoral College."
GOP Version2013: Battling Not Just Democrats but Democracy | Common Dreams
GOP Version2013: Battling Not Just Democrats but Democracy | Common Dreams
"So President Obama would have won by 5 million votes, carried the majority of states and swept the battlegrounds. But Romney would have been inaugurated as the nation’s forty-fifth president.
That’s not democracy. But that is the point of the Priebus plan."
"So President Obama would have won by 5 million votes, carried the majority of states and swept the battlegrounds. But Romney would have been inaugurated as the nation’s forty-fifth president.
That’s not democracy. But that is the point of the Priebus plan."
How Republicans Plan To Rig The Next Presidential Election, In Six Pictures
How Republicans Plan To Rig The Next Presidential Election, In Six Pictures: Yesterday, Virginia Republicans took the first step to move a GOP plan to rig the Electoral College forward in that state. Similar plans are under consideration in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The Republican election rigging plan targets blue states that President Obama won in 2008 and 2012, and changes the way they allocate electoral votes [...]/p
GOP has to rig elections to win
Republicans in Virginia snuck an election rigging plan through the state Senate while everyone was focused on the inauguration. I'll tell you what they did - and more importantly why they did it - and how it speaks to the fundamental difference between Conservatives and Liberals.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
The GOP's Boldest Election-Rigging Move Yet
The GOP's Boldest Election-Rigging Move Yet
"But most shocking of all, the latest endorser of this election-rigging scheme is none other than the top Republican Party official himself, RNC Chair Reince Preibus. In an interview with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Priebus said, “I think it’s something that a lot of states that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red out to be looking at.”
"But most shocking of all, the latest endorser of this election-rigging scheme is none other than the top Republican Party official himself, RNC Chair Reince Preibus. In an interview with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Priebus said, “I think it’s something that a lot of states that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red out to be looking at.”
What all this adds up to is this: Republicans are really going to try to do this. Over the next few years, they really are going to try to rig the next election."
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