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

[MasterJedi]

On FB of all the local news stations everyone is decrying the mass amounts of voter fraud that is currently happening in Milwaukee due to early voting going on since September 24. So they're basically saying they don't think voter ID helps voter fraud.

In all honestly I'm fully for voter ID, as long as one is provided free to anyone who needs them. Personally I'd just support automatic voter registration when everyone turns 18 and just avoid the registering phase.

[MasterJedi]

The National Democratic Redistricting Committee (Eric Holder's group) is suing Wisconsin Gov. Walker over his refusal to call special elections for two vacant legislative seats.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/26/eric-holders-group-sues-wisconsin-gov-scott-walker-over-not-calling-special-elections/374278002/

Featuring a candidate for Most Asinine Interpretation of a Law award:

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The way it sounds was the vacancy happened before 5/2/18 since 2018 is a regular election year so it should be filled...

[MasterJedi]

https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/986627673798709249

Just waiting for the "Cuomo is gutter trash, who cares, he's 3vil" posts to come in still.

[MasterJedi]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/politics/iowa-governor-ex-felons-voting-rights/index.html

Some good news out of a Republican state. Iowa now will automatically restore ex-felons voting rights once they have completed what they need to.