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Category Archives: voting rights
Thom Hartmann Interview, Part I
If the Iowa precinct caucuses created doubt about the efficacy of our voting process, we are not the only ones with concern. Thom Hartmann, the number one progressive-talk-show host in the United States wrote the book, The Hidden History of … Continue reading
Posted in thom hartmann, voter suppression, voting rights
Tagged Elections, thom hartmann, voting rights
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Inequality: One Of This Election’s Big Issues
Eight days to caucus, right? Here is a brief look at what I consider to be the really overwhelming issues. Depending on your perspective, any one of these could be in your top spot: Climate Change – well it is … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2020 election campaign, Blog for Iowa, Climate Change, Health Care & Medicare, Vote Fraud, voter suppression, voting rights
Tagged economic inequality, income inequality
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Book Review: The Hidden History Of The War On Voting
The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote — and How to Get it Back by Thom Hartmann is a quick but important read for people who want or need to review the history and origins … Continue reading
Posted in thom hartmann, voter suppression, voting rights
Tagged #votersuppression, by Thom Hartmann, thom hartmann, voter suppression, voting rights
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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
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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
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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
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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
