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Category Archives: voting rights
The Right Must Control Your Life
Thursday the Supreme Court on a partisan basis enshrined political gerrymandering as the law of the land. Now with gerrymandering officially finally enshrined as law of the land Republicans in particular can go about their current practice of drawing district … Continue reading
Job #1 Should Be Election Integrity
While this video is eight years old, many such machines are still used in elections: https://youtu.be/3Sh20tzRb94 Beyond ironic that the man we sent to Paris to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One – the war … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Verified Voting, voting rights
Tagged election integrity, election theft
Important Changes In Early Voting
With Iowa’s new voter ID law the rules changed for early voting. Here’s good information from Johnson County Auditor Travis Weipert about the new rules. I modified the press release to make it applicable statewide. It’s less than 120 days … Continue reading
Computer Scientist Barbara Simons Proves How Easy It Is To Hack Elections—And How It Can Be Stopped
Editor’s note: I stumbled on this diary on dailykos.com the other day. Dailykos has a policy of allowing full reprints of their articles provided they are given full acknowledgment. This diary is a good summation of the horrible mess that … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Vote Fraud, voter suppression, voting rights
Tagged verified voting
August 6th, 1965 – Lyndon Johnson Signs The Voting Rights Act.
video – 49 minutes The rapidity and disdain with which the current administration and Republican led states across the country are working to strip voting rights from citizens conjures up memories of the Jim Crow days of the the long … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Iowa Voters, voter suppression, voting rights
Tagged Voting Rights Act of 1965
Republicans Have A Great Week
(6 minutes) The Country Reels They Have Been Dreaming About This One For Nearly A Century. One can only guess what kind of wet dreams Republicans are having after this week. At a national level they proved that qualifications mean … Continue reading
Some Electoral Math
I am no mathematician and hold no claims to be. This last election results sure raise a lot of questions that real math wizards and analysts of electoral politics everywhere are going to be pouring over for a long time. … Continue reading
Approach To Voting Tells How Parties View Democracy
One of the quickest and easiest ways to judge how the two major parties in this country view the very fundamental concept of democracy is to simply see how they treat voters. As usual, we see Democrats busting their butts … Continue reading
Are You Registered To Vote?
While making calls for Hillary the other day from a list of what was supposed to be registered voters I was surprised that I ran across an unregistered voter. He was purposely unregistered and was not planning to vote. Hopefully, … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election Campaign, Vote Fraud, voting rights
Tagged absentee ballot request, absentee voting, voter registration
Voter Suppression In Iowa
Republicans have taken the effort to suppress voting rights nationwide, including in Iowa. Iowa Republicans have done their part, if not as egregiously as in other states. They would do more to suppress voting rights if they controlled our bicameral … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election Campaign, voting rights
Tagged voter suppression, Voter suppression in Iowa, voting rights