cuauhtemoc:
The quoted passage probably wasn’t the best example of what I’m talking about, and for that I’m sorry, but I post from my phone and I can’t look up cites easily.
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If they are successful enough at this, they could make voting very easy for people in the categories most likely to support them, and very hard for people in groups that don’t tend to favor them.
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Here’s a link that may be relevant.
I believe you are absolutely correct. I said as much when I linked to that same article in another thread:
Apologies if someone already said this.
Now I get it.
Trump blathering on and on about “voter fraud” was/is a deliberate and calculated strategy to lay the foundation for this:
In private meeting, Pence vows ‘full evaluation of voting rolls’ over claims of fraud
Quote:
“What I can tell you is that I would anticipate that the administration is going to initiate a full evaluation of voting rolls in the country, the overall integrity of our voting system in the wake of this past election,” Pence told Republican lawmakers during a question-and-answer session at their annual policy retreat in Philadelphia this week.
The vice president’s comments, captured in a recording obtained by The Post, give the clearest picture yet of how the Trump administration intends to investigate whether 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally in the 2016 election, an unsupported claim President Trump has made…
Having sowed the seeds of doubt in a (typically) disingenuous fashion, the Trumpster now feels he has the justification to send his minions through the voter registration machinery and get it tuned up in time for the mid-term elections.
In fact, there is NO justification for this kind of sweeping investigation-- and it’s yet another waste of money, just like the great wall.
And, BTW, the meeting that was “secretly” taped? :rolleyes: Yeah, sure. Those jerks were playing to the crowd that they knew were going to hear/read every word.
And, no, minority voters will not think far enough ahead to make sure they have photo i.d.s. That is something that grass-roots Democrats will have to make a high priority in the next two years: making sure that every Democratic voter has whatever s/he needs not to be turned away at the polls.
I believe the Republicans absolutely have as a goal to curtail free elections and make as sure as they possibly can that Democrats remain the minority pretty much forever. I only hope they fuck up so badly that so many of their supporters change sides that even their dirty tricks will not keep them in power. But people are generally so stupid and apathetic that I don’t have [del]much[/del] any hope.
ETA:
cuauhtemoc:
If these were normal circumstances, I’d agree that it would be very hard for Democrats to flip the Senate in 2018. But I’m talking about these particular circumstances where, if the ruling party makes voting irrelevant, nobody will ever be able to flip the Senate, or the House, or the White House ever again.
That’s the plan.