GOP claims of voter fraud threat fuel worries about ballot access in November
Category: voter suppression
Voter suppression in Indiana
If you’re an Indiana voter, you may have been purged… and this website will help you find out https://t.co/HniezY297o
— Salon (@Salon) October 14, 2018
Our analysis of the Indiana voter files shows 599,519 voters who were on the state voter rolls in October of 2016, and are no longer on the rolls – Indiana leads the nation with over 14% of registered voters from '16 no longer registered in Indiana. https://t.co/aMoO0pGpbw
— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) October 11, 2018
This is mind blowing. The Republicans are literally stealing the election in state after state. https://t.co/6lsznNJGaM
— Jonathan Alter (@jonathanalter) October 11, 2018
Indiana cancels nearly half a million voter registrations https://t.co/FqGpJLg40z
— Lynn Pappas (@LynnMPappas) October 11, 2018
There was also the Crosscheck Kobach mess. Thankfully, someone is watching out for these fascist moves. https://t.co/meKfLmD7jX
— Lisa Amor Petrov (@laprofe63) October 11, 2018
Indiana Voter Purge List 2018 – https://t.co/fSHuF9JecN
— Steven Hudson (@itsstevenhudson) October 9, 2018
Voter purges
It's not just Georgia. We're already in a crisis of democracy. "Nine states with a history of racial discrimination are more aggressively removing registered voters from their rolls than other states, according to a report released Friday." https://t.co/hRCtySAEOH
— Josh Shepperd (@joshshepperd) October 14, 2018
In a major report in July, we found that voter purges increased significantly in the 2016 election cycle. Now, new Brennan Center numbers from three states offer cause for alarm about 2018, too. #ProtectTheVote https://t.co/XKu8VHU4Dm
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) October 10, 2018
Many people are commenting on this @AP story to say that Brian Kemp is picking who gets to vote in his next election. The same dynamic is happening in Florida: https://t.co/NA6aEGRJQa
— Taniel (@Taniel) October 10, 2018
Georgia voter suppression
The guy who did the purge is the Republican candidate for governor
Fwiw, we've run a list of voters who were on the rolls in GA for the '16 general election and are no longer on the file. There are 723,522 such people. https://t.co/AvQL6IESLV
— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) October 10, 2018
Can’t gerrymander your way to winning a governor’s election, so they try this instead. https://t.co/tqnno74Bq8
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 10, 2018
Love that old Jim Crow smell https://t.co/U2arSN7nDm
— jamelle g-g-ghoulie 👻 (@jbouie) October 10, 2018
How Republicans are trying to steal the governor's race in Georgia https://t.co/0BZTbBIwbI pic.twitter.com/1dhsEXYVia
— GQ Magazine (@GQMagazine) October 11, 2018
Population of Georgia:
10.4 million.Number of Georgia voter registratons Republican Secretary of State (now candidate for Governor) Brian Kemp's office has canceled since 2012:
1.4 million(Nearly half of those canceled in the last year alone).https://t.co/NwONNOsaIq
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) October 11, 2018
The first African American woman nominated by a major party for governor is @staceyabrams. She has to beat both her opponent and the referee. He is the same person. I wrote for @RollingStone about @BrianKempGA shutting 53,000 Georgians out of the election. https://t.co/A2nBVhTlmu
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) October 11, 2018
"Critics charge"?
He's doing it. Nobody disputes that. https://t.co/7Q6kwKQLa0— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) October 11, 2018
I think some of them do tbh. https://t.co/w57TfWSEFp
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) October 11, 2018
Complaints of Voter Suppression Loom Over Georgia Governor’s Race via @NYTimes https://t.co/FcGQLFC825
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 11, 2018
North Dakota voter suppression
Part of Republican efforts to prevent Heitkamp from winning reelection:
This North Dakota law will stop Native Americans who live on reservations from voting because many don’t have street addresses. You can’t get much more un-American than this, @GOP. https://t.co/qsfQuDGaDE
— Abe Rakov (@aberakov) October 10, 2018
Outrageous/Unjust. R’s in North Dakota make it harder for Native Americans to vote. Requiring street address when many of them use P.O. Boxes in rural areas. Supreme Court allows. Law passed after Heitkamp won last time. Nothing more than voter suppression https://t.co/Nu1yWOsaPi
— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) October 9, 2018
Holy crap!!
That N Dak law may have disenfranchised about 10% of the STATE’S TOTAL POPULATION (70K out of 700K). And that total pop includes those over 18, so total impact even larger.
That’s an aggressive—and, mince no words, intentionally racist—move. https://t.co/xRFYRAxOFG pic.twitter.com/Er8J97G9Pq
— John Pfaff (@JohnFPfaff) October 10, 2018
SCOTUS just upheld voter ID law in North Dakota that could disenfranchise thousands of Native voters & cost Heidi Heitkamp her Senate seat. "The risk of disenfranchisement is large" RBG writes in dissent https://t.co/jZVB955OGa
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 9, 2018
North Dakota has no voter registration, so proof of identity makes sense.
But Republicans made it so that one's address had to be a residential address instead of a P.O. box knowing full well that Native Americans on reservations rely exclusively on the latter in large numbers https://t.co/p3ZeQViAXe— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) October 9, 2018
Breaking: #SCOTUS allows North Dakota voter ID requirement, which had been enjoined during the primaries, to be enforced during the general election. pic.twitter.com/wEvQcttwxz
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) October 9, 2018
North Dakota's voter ID law is an assault on minority voters. Republicans designed it to disenfranchise Native Americans and prevent Sen. Heidi Heitkamp from winning reelection. SCOTUS let it take effect anyway. https://t.co/iJw6BaANyR @Slate
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) October 10, 2018
Voter Suppression
Americans want to vote, but restrictive voting laws don’t make it easy. That’s why we’re supporting voting rights champions across the country. https://t.co/QONp0Yc8Wn
— Let America Vote (@letamericavote) October 9, 2018
Damage done to the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court
This is one thing that should be corrected by Congress. It won’t happen unless Democrats win.
"Unless Republicans have a change of heart — or unless they lose control of Congress — it will be impossible to undo the damage caused by the Supreme Court." That's why our #LAVfield team is on the ground in 5 states to elect voting-rights champions. https://t.co/YuoPRohrFw
— Let America Vote (@letamericavote) October 6, 2018
