The sweeping #redstate drive to roll back #CivilRights & #liberties

by Ron Brownstein

Since 2021, #Republican-controlled states have passed a swarm of #laws to restrict #VotingRights, increase penalties for #public #protest, impose new restrictions on #transgender youth, #BanBooks, & limit what #teachers, #college #professors, & #employers can say about #race, #gender, & #SexualOrientation.

#AbortionRights
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/09/supreme-court-republican-civil-rights/675265/

by #ChrisMcKenna in #lohud:

"The state Board of Elections sounded the alarm last week, warning New Yorkers that people posing as county election workers had been confronting voters at their homes and falsely claiming they committed crimes because of how their names appeared in a statewide voter database.

“'We are extremely alarmed by these actions,' Raymond Riley III, the state board's co-executive director, said in a statement then. 'These individuals are impersonating government officials in an effort to intimidate voters based on inaccurate and misleading information.'”

https://archive.ph/2st8Y

#NewYork #elections #VotingRights #voting #voters

#Poll: How big of an issue is voter fraud in America today?
https://politicaliq.com/2023/09/11/voting-rights-groups-warning-against-purported-registration-fraud-software/ #VotingRights #VoterRegistration #EagleAI #Georgia #CletaMitchell #BradRaffensperger #Elections #politicaliq #news #politics #opinion #opinionpoll

Voting rights groups warning against purported registration fraud software https://politicaliq.com/2023/09/11/voting-rights-groups-warning-against-purported-registration-fraud-software/ #VotingRights #VoterRegistration #EagleAI #Georgia #CletaMitchell #BradRaffensperger #Elections #politicaliq #news #politics

I am shocked!

Felon voter fraud remains rare in Wisconsin, report shows.

#VotingRights #VoterFraud #vote #Wisconsin #USpol #USpolitics

https://apnews.com/article/4783d0c9c84cd3fbf69c17cd9457e199

We won’t stand for it #votingrights #voteblue

Just went #voting in #Norway for #kommunevalget2023.

The voting day is on Monday 11.09.
#advancevote is possible since 10.08. until today.

That's A WHOLE MONTH where I can turn up at any station that I pass by and cast my #vote.
One Month, anytime, where ever I want.

Don't let them tell you things like that are 'not possible'.
It is, they just don't want it.

#votingrights #votersuppression #valg2023 #valg23

#GOPRacism & #PowerPlay at its WORST. Republican leaders have no shame bc they've never been held accountable. #TFG simply revealed their depravity: “We strongly believe that the Legislature’s map complies with the Voting Rights Act and the recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court,” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a statement. *Is he counting on Kavanaugh flipping his vote (5-4 SC decision, h/t Mike Saks). #VotingRights https://www.al.com/news/2023/09/alabama-will-appeal-rejection-of-congressional-map-to-us-supreme-court.html

#VotingRights Breaking: Unanimous 3-Judge Federal Court Holds Alabama Defied Supreme Court in Allen v. Milligan, Must Draw Another Minority Opportunity Congressional District https://electionlawblog.org/?p=138557

Alabama congressional map struck down again for diluting Black voting power

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/05/alabama-congressional-map/

#WashingtonPost #AlabamaCongressionalMap #BlackVotingPower #VotingRights #PoliticalDilution #CivilRights #Politics #News

Federal court blocks Alabama's congressional map, orders new lines drawn - #Alabama Reflector

A three-judge federal panel Tuesday ruled that a new Alabama congressional map failed to address #VotingRightsAct violations and ordered a third party to draw new lines.
#vra #rights #votingrights #civilrights
https://alabamareflector.com/2023/09/05/federal-court-blocks-alabamas-congressional-map-orders-new-lines-drawn/

Judges again reject Alabama’s congressional lines, will draw new districts to increase Black voting power.

AP reports: "The three-judge panel wrote that they are 'deeply troubled' that Alabama lawmakers flouted their instruction to create a second majority-Black district or something close to it. A designated special master will be tapped to draw new districts for the state, the judges ordered."

https://flip.it/Z7HTFp

#Elections #Alabama #USPolitics #Politics #BlackMastodon #VotingRights

Another court tosses out another Alabama Congressional map https://politicaliq.com/2023/09/05/another-court-tosses-out-another-alabama-congressional-map/ #Alabama #CongressionalMap #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #VotingRights #DistrictCourt #BlackVoters #politicaliq #news #politics

🎶 The Day They Drove Ole Dixie Down Again 🎵
#votingrights
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/05/1193749552/alabama-congressional-map

DeSantis' Florida Redistricting Map Is Unconstitutional And Must Be Redrawn: Judge https://www.huffpost.com/entry/desantis-florida-redistricting-map-is-unconstitutional-and-must-be-redrawn-judge_n_64f3b9f7e4b0ca54cc6c38dd #DeSantis #votingrights

Push to expand #votingrights gains ground in 2023

https://flip.it/h_1AAh

"MAGA Republicans threaten(ing) to defund state and federal prosecutors they claim are targeting Republicans, and announcing their intention to gather the power of the Department of Justice into their own hands should they win office in 2024. "
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-30-2023?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#Fascism #Republicans #VotingRights

" In New York state, Susan B. Anthony voted successfully but was later tried and convicted—in an all-male courtroom in which she did not have the right to testify—for the crime of voting.
In Missouri a voting registrar named Reese Happersett refused to permit suffragist Virginia Minor to register. Minor sued Happersett, and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court. "
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-26-2023?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#Democracy #VotingRights

Reading Astra Taylor's excellent "Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When It's Gone."

In the middle of all these court cases, I'm struck by the clarity and simplicity of this half sentence: "Under even marginally more democratic structural conditions, a demagogue like Trump probably wouldn't stand a chance..."

#ElectoralReform #VotingRights

@w7voa

But does the Dept of State remain concerned with continued actions by those who seek to undermine democracy in the USA?

“Republicans now confess they think fewer people should vote...

They’ve opposed extension of the #VotingRights Act. How can they be pro-democracy but anti-voting? Few, if any, of these candidates have been pushed to explain their disdain for #democracy”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/05/media-coverage-2024-republican-election-lies/

Mastodon thread: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/110498505332327306

#GOP #Republicans #USPol #Politics #USA #News