Of course, it didn't pass. Each state sets its own rules for voting, including registration deadlines, voter ID laws, poll opening and closing times, conditions for early and absentee voting, and disenfranchisement of felons.
Currently, parties in power have an incentive to create state rules meant to skew the relative turnout for each pa…
Of course, it didn't pass. Each state sets its own rules for voting, including registration deadlines, voter ID laws, poll opening and closing times, conditions for early and absentee voting, and disenfranchisement of felons.
Currently, parties in power have an incentive to create state rules meant to skew the relative turnout for each party in their favor, by, for example, making voting more difficult for groups that tend to vote against them.
Where I live, Baghdad By the Sea, approximately 20 % of our population does not want ANYONE to vote -- even themselves. They want a caudillo -- a dictator like the late Franscico Franco, in Spain, to rule. When JEB Bush was governor, he, in effect ensured that his brother would become president, using caging, purging of the rolls, voter intimidation, etc. When he and his daddy were president, at least 2 members of the cabinet were born in Havana, represented corporate interests and were apparently like minded. After 2022, approximatly 1 million Democrats were dropped from the rolls. https://www.wmnf.org/almost-1-million-florida-voters-declared-inactive-after-law-purging-voter-lists/
Although our polls showed that Democrats had a chance, Republicans swept the election despite inconsistencies like a plurality favored abortion and marijuana reform. Fascist voting provides a veneer of freedom, useful for getting foreign loans and, in the case of Hungary's Viktor Orbán, European Union benefits and funds. Plebiscites and referendums are also used by leaders to normalize seizures of foreign territory—no matter that voters may cast their ballots under duress, as reportedly happened to some Russians who “approved” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Luhansk and other occupied Ukrainian territories.
Unfortuantely, tomorrow, Trump may bring the Fascist deam to fruition by announcing a national emergency.
Of course, it didn't pass. Each state sets its own rules for voting, including registration deadlines, voter ID laws, poll opening and closing times, conditions for early and absentee voting, and disenfranchisement of felons.
Currently, parties in power have an incentive to create state rules meant to skew the relative turnout for each party in their favor, by, for example, making voting more difficult for groups that tend to vote against them.
Where I live, Baghdad By the Sea, approximately 20 % of our population does not want ANYONE to vote -- even themselves. They want a caudillo -- a dictator like the late Franscico Franco, in Spain, to rule. When JEB Bush was governor, he, in effect ensured that his brother would become president, using caging, purging of the rolls, voter intimidation, etc. When he and his daddy were president, at least 2 members of the cabinet were born in Havana, represented corporate interests and were apparently like minded. After 2022, approximatly 1 million Democrats were dropped from the rolls. https://www.wmnf.org/almost-1-million-florida-voters-declared-inactive-after-law-purging-voter-lists/
Although our polls showed that Democrats had a chance, Republicans swept the election despite inconsistencies like a plurality favored abortion and marijuana reform. Fascist voting provides a veneer of freedom, useful for getting foreign loans and, in the case of Hungary's Viktor Orbán, European Union benefits and funds. Plebiscites and referendums are also used by leaders to normalize seizures of foreign territory—no matter that voters may cast their ballots under duress, as reportedly happened to some Russians who “approved” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Luhansk and other occupied Ukrainian territories.
Unfortuantely, tomorrow, Trump may bring the Fascist deam to fruition by announcing a national emergency.