Megathread: Republican Voter Suppression
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Which page of the book you recommended says this?
And where do you have any evidence that Republicans in the North Carolina legislature purged voters, shortened voting hours, and eliminated voting places.
https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/florida-georgia-north-carolina-still-purging-voters-high-rates
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/north-carolina-early-voting/506963/
https://www.newsweek.com/almost-half-north-carolina-counties-shut-down-polling-places-1136813
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/study-north-carolina-polling-site-changes-hurt-blacks-n468251
Got more questions? You know who to ask.
So your Newsweek articles outline how the North Carolina state legislature extended early voting hours and made them uniform as 7am to 7pm across the state.
"But local election officials from both parties regard the new measures as a burden that make it more difficult to vote, even if the altered practices mean that polls will be open for early voting almost 24,000 more hours."
How in your fantasy is this voter suppression?
"20 percent fewer early voting locations during the 2018 elections than it did in 2014"
Cutting locations in Dem areas while increasing areas everywhere else cuts down the Dem vote, that's how.
“As Ohio Republicans won the race for every statewide executive job from the governor on down this year, something different happened in lower-profile races. The Democrats actually collected more total votes in the 116 Ohio House and Senate elections across the state,” the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
“It’s a takeaway from Election 2018 that isn’t the usual headline grabber. More importantly, in terms of controlling Ohio’s government, the GOP won 72 of the 116 Statehouse races. But the Republicans scored their wins for 62 percent of the seats while collecting just under 50 percent of the total vote.”
“This is a lot like what happened in Ohio’s 16 congressional districts, where Republicans won 75 percent of the seats with just 52 percent of the overall vote.”
“It’s a takeaway from Election 2018 that isn’t the usual headline grabber. More importantly, in terms of controlling Ohio’s government, the GOP won 72 of the 116 Statehouse races. But the Republicans scored their wins for 62 percent of the seats while collecting just under 50 percent of the total vote.”
“This is a lot like what happened in Ohio’s 16 congressional districts, where Republicans won 75 percent of the seats with just 52 percent of the overall vote.”
Wonder if they "clicked late" or saw DDOS traffic/upload speeds cripple all of the sudden?
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobb...ard-countys-recount-tally-because-it-uploaded
Florida not using Broward County's recount tally because it uploaded results 2 minutes late
Florida will not use results from Broward County's machine recount because the office submitted its results two minutes past the 3 p.m. deadline Thursday.
“We uploaded to the state two minutes late so the state has chosen not to use our machine recount results. They are going to use our first unofficial results as our second unofficial results,” Joe D’Alessandro, an electing official, said, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobb...ard-countys-recount-tally-because-it-uploaded
Florida not using Broward County's recount tally because it uploaded results 2 minutes late
Florida will not use results from Broward County's machine recount because the office submitted its results two minutes past the 3 p.m. deadline Thursday.
“We uploaded to the state two minutes late so the state has chosen not to use our machine recount results. They are going to use our first unofficial results as our second unofficial results,” Joe D’Alessandro, an electing official, said, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
Actually you are not aware of the context of the reduction in polling places, nor did you read the articles in detail.
Traditionally North Carolina counties have used small private venues as polling places. The typical example being churches. Many older churches are small, have limited parking, and have issues with handicap accessibility.
The trend in North Carolina is to move polling to large venues which are public such as community centers, libraries and larger schools (High Schools) with sizable gyms that can be used for voting . These venues have more parking and have better accessibility.
The actual throughput of voters and the number of voters served is actually better in these larger venues. Also the selection of larger venues is normally done in a manner to provide better geographic diversification. Smaller venues tended to cluster (for example most small churches are all located in one area of many towns).
There is also the reality that many private venues no longer desire to host voting. The private venue still has the responsibility of opening up early, staffing for support of the building, closing up and cleaning up.
Keep in mind that it is the county election boards that make decisions on venues - not the state government. The trend has been in place for years towards using a smaller number of larger venues. The trend is driven by public accessibility & parking as well as the cost of manning all the locations.
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I get it, they reduced the polling places and made them more distant to make it easier for people to go vote. Makes sense.
Here is another 'joke'
A video surfaced of Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS saying it might be a “great idea” to make it harder for some people to vote, and her campaign quickly responded that she was “obviously” joking, NBC News reports.
Said Hyde-Smith: “And then they remind me that there’s a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who … maybe we don’t want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that’s a great idea.”