voting
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What Could Possibly Be Going Wrong With Primary Voting in Brian Kemp’s Georgia?
When I was young, I had a friend named Luck. He was called Luck because he did a bunch of rotten shit and never got caught. Once he stole a 30-gallon fish tank from the pet store in Prince Georges Plaza by walking into the store and walking out with it. He didn’t try to…
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Don't Think Voting Is Important? Rihanna Will Correct You on That
Outside of the social media initiative Blackout Tuesday, which encouraged internet folks to post a black square to show their solidarity with the black community and then continue to work to end racial injustice, June 2 was an election day in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Indiana, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Iowa, Montana, New Mexico, and the District…
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West Virginia Mail Carrier Charged With Election Fraud for Altering Absentee Ballot Applications
Many conservatives—including y’all’s president—have had a lot to say about mail-in voting and the potential it has to cause voter fraud. Of course, there’s not much evidence supporting the idea that absentee ballots will result in fraud on the part of voters, but in West Virginia, one case of election tampering happened before voters even…
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Republicans to Drop $20 Million to Prevent Black People From Voting
It’s essentially an open secret that Republicans have to cheat to win. With the go-ahead from federal courts, the party is prepared to do just that. Vice reports that the Republican Party intends to spend $20 million to recruit a network of up to 50,000 volunteers to monitor poll locations. In 2018, a federal court…
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Wisconsin Republicans Tried to Steal an Election and It Still Didn’t Work
Wisconsin Republicans, backed by the Supreme Court, gave voters an unenviable ultimatum: Go outside during a global pandemic, ignoring countrywide pleas of sheltering in place, to cast their votes or stay in the safety of their homes and not vote at all. It was a ploy by Republicans, who knew one thing: When voter turnout…
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Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Make Voting Easier and Safer This November—If You're Into That Kind of Thing
It’s hard to remember in the midst of, well, literally everything happening in the world right now, but we are just seven months away from a general election where we will either pick a new president or stay the same disastrous course. There are quite a few reasons to feel some dread about that, including…
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Trump Doesn’t Care If You Die Standing in Line to Vote as Long as You’re Voting for Him
President Trump is not a smart man. He is a man of simple things. He demands loyalty. He demands that people see him how he sees himself. He demands that people lie for him. He demands that he win at all costs. So when Trump demands that “Republicans should fight very hard when it comes…
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Trump Continues to Weaponize the Coronavirus and Admits That Easy Voting Hurts Republicans
On Monday, President COVID-45 (Billy Dee Williams voice) admitted that easy voting hurts Republicans even though he’s totally not a Republican but plays one on TV. During an interview with a bunch of white people on Fox & Friends, Trump claimed that Democrats added more funding to the coronavirus stimulus package to make voting easier,…
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Coronavirus Can’t Stop Democracy: Primaries Continue in 3 States Today
Voters who own hazmat suits, N95 masks, Lysol spray and brown Listerine will brave the coronavirus to vote in Tuesday’s primary because sometimes democracy is a black mother who doesn’t care how silly you look in dress pants, you are going to church anyway! Sometimes democracy doesn’t care that you don’t like broccoli or that…
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The Mayor of Kansas City Went to Vote. A Poll Worker Turned Him Away
There is a certain level of irony to an elected official being turned away from voting. This was the case for Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas. According to Slate, when Lucas went to go vote in Missouri’s primary on Tuesday he was turned away after being told he “wasn’t in the system.” Lauri Ealom, a…