Voting rights bills and lawsuits megathread (Updated: April 27th 2020)

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Voting ID is coming to the great state of Michigan.

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Strict voter ID law approved in Michigan House




Great news!

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The Department of inJustice is reviewing its complaints against Texas commonsense voter ID!

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Arkansas starts the process to pass great voter ID!

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 A bill that would require voters to show verification that they are registered to vote passed the Arkansas House of Representatives on Tuesday (Jan. 31).

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Iowa House passes excellent election security law.

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Iowa House passes excellent election security law.

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Iowa Senate passes excellent election security law.

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A Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll conducted in February showed that 69 percent of adult Iowans surveyed favor the idea of requiring to present a government-issued identification card before casting a ballot. Twenty-eight percent are opposed and 3 percent are not sure.

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More winning!

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Arkansas governor signs bill reinstating voter ID law

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I'm getting the feeling the Supreme Court, especially Kennedy, is getting sick of these redistricting cases and might be willing to call partisan gerrymandering unconstitutional as a means to try to end them. Fingers crossed in the Wisconsin case.

Lol. That would mean twice as many cases!

Be careful what you wish for. The great champion Clarence Thomas has called for the full repeal of Thornburg v Gingles, which would actually accomplish your stated goal.

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I'm getting the feeling the Supreme Court, especially Kennedy, is getting sick of these redistricting cases and might be willing to call partisan gerrymandering unconstitutional as a means to try to end them. Fingers crossed in the Wisconsin case.

Lol. That would mean twice as many cases!

Be careful what you wish for. The great champion Clarence Thomas has called for the full repeal of Thornburg v Gingles, which would actually accomplish your stated goal.

MMD's seem like they could get out of control quickly

Well, yes, precisely. There would be no such thing as MMDs anymore.

As it stands, certain racial groups and special interest groups insist on moaning and groaning over the specific contours of certain districts created by the legislature. Sometimes the lower courts fall for such moaning and groaning, and it falls to folks like Anthony Kennedy and his protege Neil Gorsuch to constantly put these lower courts in their place.

Ditching Thornburg v Gingles and simply letting states redistrict would solve that problem.

Of course, we have seen things like this already happen. The former attorney general monstrously abused his authority with VRA5 preclearance, the Supreme Court effectively ditched VRA5 preclearance, and now we no longer have silly VRA5 cases polluting the DC circuit. Very nice!

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Winning.

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The voter identification bill signed by Branstad will require voters to show ID at the polls, a measure that Secretary of State Paul Pate said will be in effect for the 2018 Iowa gubernatorial election thanks to a “soft rollout” of the law.

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California Democrats are trying to change the rules to ensure a tax raising fiend remains in office!


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Over impassioned objections from GOP lawmakers, California Democrats on Thursday used a budget maneuver to help out a freshman colleague, Sen. Josh Newman, who faces an ugly recall battle in Southern California after voting for increasing the state’s gas tax less than six months after he was elected.

Slipped into a budget-related bill on a veteran’s cemetery was a provision to add new requirements for qualifying a recall petition for the ballot.

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Great news!

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Justice Alito stays the district ct ruling in Abbott v. Perez, the redistricting case, pending a response to the stay application. #SCOTUS

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Double or nothing.

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Justice Samuel Alito acted quickly this afternoon to grant a request by Texas officials to block a lower court’s order that had invalidated the state’s maps for the Texas House of Representatives,

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Texas common sense voter ID is back!

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A federal appeals court in New Orleans on Tuesday gave Texas its approval to use a revised version of the state's voter identification law during its November election, Politico reported. 

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Texas common sense voter ID is back!

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A federal appeals court in New Orleans on Tuesday gave Texas its approval to use a revised version of the state's voter identification law during its November election, Politico reported. 

Texas common sense voter ID continues to win.

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Texas common sense voter ID is back!

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A federal appeals court in New Orleans on Tuesday gave Texas its approval to use a revised version of the state's voter identification law during its November election, Politico reported. 

Texas common sense voter ID continues to win.

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And the wins keep piling up. Full gerrymandering in effect.

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BREAKING: #SCOTUS stays Texas redistricting case order, pending appeal to and disposition in the Supreme Court.

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Celebrating corruption?
At this rate, krazen would probably get everything sticky if Republicans held on by implementing a series of strategic "cheese pizza" deliveries.

For those too disgusted to do the research, that was a Pizzagate reference.

I don't think you know what that means pal.

Did you know that Texas Democrats used to draw seats in such a way that they got most of the seats consistently even as Texas Republicans got 55-60% of the 2 party state vote?

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Celebrating corruption?
At this rate, krazen would probably get everything sticky if Republicans held on by implementing a series of strategic "cheese pizza" deliveries.

For those too disgusted to do the research, that was a Pizzagate reference.

I don't think you know what that means pal.

Did you know that Texas Democrats used to draw seats in such a way that they got most of the seats consistently even as Texas Republicans got 55-60% of the 2 party state vote?

It was despicable back then and it is despicable today. I don't see what's so hard to understand.

You are such a funny guy! 10/10, pal.

In the real world, Texas Democrats used gerrymandering again and again and again until eventually the voters rose up and delivered such a massive thrashing that the white liberals were thrown out of power. Then in 2003 when it came time for retribution the losers of the 2002 election fled the state like rancid cowards.

The Texas Rangers were called haul in the infidels.

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Massive voter fraud in Philadelphia. They are trying to steal the elections.

http://dailysignal.com/2017/09/24/hundreds-of-illegal-voters-revealed-in-philadelphia/amp/

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Massive voter fraud in Philadelphia. They are trying to steal the elections.

http://dailysignal.com/2017/09/24/hundreds-of-illegal-voters-revealed-in-philadelphia/amp/

Rampant voter fraud then.

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Saying Philadelphia's election system had collapsed under "a massive scheme" by Democrats to steal a State Senate election in November, a Federal judge today took the rare step of invalidating the vote and ordered the seat filled by the Republican candidate.


And rampant voter fraud now. Clearly they tried to steal the election.


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Pedro Cortes, Pennsylvania’s secretary of state, abruptly resigned from office Wednesday, three weeks after his agency came under criticism for a glitch that may have allowed thousands of ineligible immigrants statewide to vote.

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Massive voter fraud in Philadelphia. They are trying to steal the elections.

http://dailysignal.com/2017/09/24/hundreds-of-illegal-voters-revealed-in-philadelphia/amp/

Rampant voter fraud then.

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Saying Philadelphia's election system had collapsed under "a massive scheme" by Democrats to steal a State Senate election in November, a Federal judge today took the rare step of invalidating the vote and ordered the seat filled by the Republican candidate.


And rampant voter fraud now. Clearly they tried to steal the election.


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Pedro Cortes, Pennsylvania’s secretary of state, abruptly resigned from office Wednesday, three weeks after his agency came under criticism for a glitch that may have allowed thousands of ineligible immigrants statewide to vote.

The number listed in the article of ineligible voters who actually voted is very low.  

This isn't fraud, it's incompetence.

Maybe not as low as you think, pal. The Democrat party is up to Stinson tactics.

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Four members of an election board were charged Monday with intimidating voters, casting bogus ballots, and falsely certifying the results in their polling place during a March 21 special election for the state House’s 197th District.

Those charged include Dolores Shaw, 61; Calvin Mattox, 52; Thurman George, 57; and Wallace Hill, 60. The four — all Democrats — manned the ballot machines at the Esperanza Health Center at Kensington and Allegheny Avenues in the 43rd Ward, one of the polling places where complaints about illegal electioneering were lodged.

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Power To The People!

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Commonwealth Court Says Pa’s Congressional Lines Do Not Violate State Constitution

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Power To The People!

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Commonwealth Court Says Pa’s Congressional Lines Do Not Violate State Constitution

Power To The People!

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Federal judges rule in favor of Pennsylvania Republicans in gerrymandering case

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Power To The People!

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Commonwealth Court Says Pa’s Congressional Lines Do Not Violate State Constitution

Power To The People!

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Federal judges rule in favor of Pennsylvania Republicans in gerrymandering case

Power To The People!

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article193814154.html

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Well, not yet. The Supreme Court has not yet issued a ruling to overthrow this heist attempt. True federalists across the nation can cheer as the 4th circuit can no longer take advantage of the temporary void left by Great Justice Scalia.

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If Justice Kennedy does his expected thing, I suspect the NC map will go down the tubes. We shall see. The Pubs were hogs rather than pigs in some of these maps, doing grotesque things to get one extra seat, or pad a seat so that it would never be marginal. Pigs get fat, and hogs get slaughtered. Smart gerrymanderers draw pretty maps, and the biases are subtle. There are not many smart gerrymanderers on the Fruited Plain. Well maybe that Mathis woman qualifies in the Dem gerrymander of AZ as the supposedly non partisan person on the commission. But then she sort of had to be somewhat subtle, given her oath of office. One irony is that CA CD map. It was a Dem gerrymander lite, but given the collapse of the Pub party in CA, it now has morphed into a Pub gerrymander lite. Who knew?

Surely that is possible. But the Supreme Court has already taken a case from Maryland from the 4th circuit. The 4th circuit is strangely in conflict with itself on this matter. I suspect these cases will be consolidated.

The Supreme Court already ruled on North Carolina redistricting's 1st and 12th districts...both of which have been redrawn into nicely shaped districts that are vastly less serpentine than those in Maryland.

In any case the appeal has already been filed.

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The District Court has dismissed a nonsensical challenge to Alabama common sense voter ID.

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