Tag: voting rights

It would seem that the fact that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 2 million votes and counting and the recount of votes in Wisconsin has gotten under the aging orange thin skin of the bad tempered liar-elect. Over the weekend after gorging himself on dishes named after himself at his resort in Florida, …

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Today's topics were comprehension immigration reform, The SEC, money in politics, voting rights, Voter ID laws, and North Carolina politics. But most importantly, for me, Alexis Goldstein is back on #Uppers.

People loved the shit out of this one.

Boston changed everything.It's time to deport all Caucasians….wait. #Uppers

— priceman (@therealpriceman) April 28, 2013

Judy Pinto speaks nonsense about government getting in the way+regulation while forgetting exploitation of latinos is deregulation. #Uppers — priceman (@therealpriceman) April 28, 2013

Twitter is often about being beaten to the punchline! Good job! RT @therealpriceman: @2oldforob @ronnirn I have my moments. 😀 #Uppers

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Um, we need unions. New Citizens need unions. How about leaning some history about Cesar Chavez+the United Farm Union, Judy Pino? #Uppers — priceman (@therealpriceman) April 28, 2013

It's amazing how many votes one can earn just by not saying something bigoted & offensive about a demographic=problem 4 Republicans #Uppers

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The George Wallaces of the 21st century in NC want to set all people back to the early 19th century. #Uppers — priceman (@therealpriceman) April 28, 2013

@amy10506 And an unelected emergency manager in Detroit. #Uppers

— priceman (@therealpriceman) April 28, 2013

@dizzydi769 Fake prob of voter fraud(a felony. Yeah they'll risk it for 1 vote) is a fraud used to stop (D) demographics from voting #Uppers — priceman (@therealpriceman) April 28, 2013

It's not Citizens United that corprate personhood comes from. It's Santa Clara County vs S. Pacific Railraod. Overturn that. #Uppers

— priceman (@therealpriceman) April 28, 2013

.@therealpriceman @alexisgoldstein Vry hard 2 see how 2 combat regulatory capture, revolving door, lobbying.Laws would b gd start! #uppers — GFJacobs (@GFJacobs) April 28, 2013

@cr8f Absolutely making it more egregious because clerk had Robber Baron ties. #Uppers

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Liz Kennedy and @alexisgoldsteinare right. There needs to be democracy in the workplace. Limited disclosure least we could do. #Uppers — priceman (@therealpriceman) April 28, 2013

Just when all hope was lost, feckless monetary policy continues. Swaps push-out derivatives deregulation backed by FDIC Great. #Uppers

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1,000 follower mark! Finally made it! Thank you! #Uppers #p2 #OWS — priceman (@therealpriceman) April 28, 2013

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The Obama/ Biden campaign sued the state of Ohio  over changes in Ohio law that took away the three days of voting for most people, but made exceptions for military personnel and Ohioans living overseas. The 9th Circuit Cout of Appeals ruled that Ohio must make early voting available (pdf) to all Ohio voters and Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State, John Husted, made an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court weighed in this afternoon declining to block early voting.

The Supreme Court is siding with Democrats in refusing to block early voting in the battleground state of Ohio.

The court on Tuesday refused a Republican request to get involved in a dispute over early voting in the state on the three days before Election Day.

This is not just a win for Democrats, it is a victory for democracy.

As in the past, Ohio is a key state in the electoral politics of the 2012 general election and the Republican Party is doing their level best to suppress voter turnout. On Friday, 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Ohio must make early voting (pdf) during the three days before the election available to all voters if it’s available to military members and voters who live overseas. The ruling upheld a lower court decision. On Tuesday Ohio Secretary of State John Husted announced that he would appeal the ruling to the US Supreme Court:

This is an unprecedented intrusion by the federal courts into how states run elections and because of its impact on all 50 states as to who and how elections will be run in America we are asking the Supreme Court to step in and allow Ohioans to run Ohio elections.

This ruling not only doesn’t make legal sense, it doesn’t make practical sense. The court is saying that all voters must be treated the same way under Ohio law, but also grants Ohio’s 88 elections boards the authority to establish 88 different sets of rules. That means that one county may close down voting for the final weekend while a neighboring county may remain open. How any court could consider this a remedy to an equal protection problem is stunning.

At FDL News Desk, David Dayen doesn’t think this will fly with the Supreme Court:

Remember that Husted’s original ruling for early voting would have allowed Republican districts to keep their voting hours open longer and for more days. And he sought to keep options for military voters open while closing them for, say, minorities in Cleveland. So his appeal to equal protection, in light of his previous decisions, is comical.

I doubt that the Supreme Court would choose to intervene here, though of course you never know. But that won’t stop Husted’s well-earned gold star as the hardest-working voter suppressor in America.

Who knows what this Supreme Court will do but here’s hoping that they let the lower court decision stand.