Straight Party Voting Is Back In Michigan

[beourbud]

Straight-party voting is once again legal in Michigan.

 

Federal Judge Gershwin Drain has blocked the measure that Governor Snyder signed in January.

 

Some lawmakers criticized the bill as a way to discourage turnout among minorities noting that more than 70 percent of ballots have been cast as straight-party in some voting districts.

 

Attorney General Bill Schuette defends the law saying 40 other states ban straight-party voting, but the judge says that argument is irrelevant.

[bax]

Basically, secretary of state (and legislature) didnt allocate enough money to black cities to speed up voting.

 

 

Read the opinion:

 

http://media.mlive.com/news_impact/other/Injunction.pdf

 

It cites Husted a lot. How crazy nuts is Husted, AG for Ohio?

Edited July 22, 2016 by bax

[imiubu]

Basically, secretary of state (and legislature) didnt allocate enough money to black cities to speed up voting.

 

 

Read the opinion:

 

http://media.mlive.com/news_impact/other/injuction.pdf

 

 

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[bax]

Sorry, fixed link.

http://media.mlive.com/news_impact/other/Injunction.pdf

[trichcycler]

imiubu= link police

 

 

_{(thanks for the work)}

[blackhorse]

Doing away with the straight party voting would only lengthen the lines on election day.

 

This new ruling will shorten the lines in November, unless it is overturned again.

[imiubu]

One of the people I take to the polls is a 69 yr old hispanic woman.

She had never voted in her life until she voted for Obama.

Over the last 7yrs. I have helped her understand how to fill in her ballot

bc she gets so confused and even got her to vote in local elections + the primaries this year. 

She told me this year after straight ticket was changed,

that she wasn't ever going to vote again.

btw, I never tell her who to vote for, I only explain how to fill out the ballot.

I do speak to her about candidates, who I am voting for and why.

She then can make up her own mind. 

[Wild Bill]

Doing away with the straight party voting would only lengthen the lines on election day.

 

That's the idea. Historically, Republicans do better in low turnout elections. They are fewer in numbers but more likely to turn out to vote.

 

The hope was that long lines would discourage the untermensch from coming out to vote.

[blackhorse]

That's the idea. Historically, Republicans do better in low turnout elections. They are fewer in numbers but more likely to turn out to vote.

 

The hope was that long lines would discourage the untermensch from coming out to vote.

 

I am registered as a republican, but vote for the person who I think will do the best job. (especially in local offices) Our precinct has 400 dem voters who vote straight ticket and 200 rep who vote straight ticket. It is hard for a rep to overcome this 200 votes, other than in a large election like in November. Normally 1200 voters will come out in pres. election., I'm thinking 1500 in November

 

Cities and townships that I know of were planning to add extra voting booths and workers to help in November. Which some will still do to cut down on lines from all the voters this election will bring to the polls.

 

Long lines at polls are usually caused from lack of preparation.

[bax]

This is going to be one crazy donkey election.

 

Very difficult to predict.

 

Here is hoping Bernie Sanders pulls something.

 

Wikileaks will be releasing stuff for the next 6 days about Hillary Clinton.

So if you are into that kind of thing, its going to be a busy week.

 

The DNC emails are new, just released!

 

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/dncleaks

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/DNCleaks

 

 

Wikileaks also released a batch of the Hillary emails

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/

Most of which were FOIA'd from the fed govt.

 

 

If you have retreated into your A/C for the summer weekend heatwave, this might be a welcome distraction.

Edited July 23, 2016 by bax

[beourbud]

Ooops

Edited July 25, 2016 by beourbud

[trichcycler]

Wikileaks Proves Primary Was Rigged: DNC Undermined Democracy 20,000 freshly leaked emails reveal resentful disdain toward Sanders, as party favored Clinton long before any votes were cast

By Michael Sainato • 07/22/16 2:00pm

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

On July 25, the Democratic National Convention will begin in Philadelphia, Pa. To commemorate the event and its embrace of corrupt politician Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee, Wikileaks is releasing thousands of DNC/Clinton emails.

Are you ready for Hillary? We begin our series today with 20 thousand emails from the top of the DNC. #Hillary2016 pic.twitter.com/YZbGhjTy2h

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 22, 2016

In its recent leak of 20,000 DNC emails from January 2015 to May 2016, DNC staff discuss how to deal with Bernie Sanders’ popularity as a challenge to Clinton’s candidacy. Instead of treating Sanders as a viable candidate for the Democratic ticket, the DNC worked against him and his campaign to ensure Clinton received the nomination.

One email from DNC Deputy Communications Director Eric Walker to several DNC staffers cites two news articles showing Sanders leading in Rhode Island and the limited number of polling locations in the state: “If she outperforms this polling, the Bernie camp will go nuts and allege misconduct. They’ll probably complain regardless, actually.”

Instead of treating Sanders with impartiality, the DNC exhibits resentful disdain toward him and the thousands of disenfranchised voters he could have brought into the party.

“Wondering if there’s a good Bernie narrative for a story, which is that Bernie never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a mess,” wrote DNC Deputy Communications Director Mark Paustenbach to DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda, in response to backlash over DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz shutting off the Sanders campaign’s access to voter database files.

Another chain reveals MSNBC’s Chuck Todd and DNC staff members discussing how to discredit MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski’s call for Wasserman Schultz to resign.

Most of the emails released come from seven prominent DNC staff members: senior adviser Andrew Wright, national finance director Jordon Kaplan, finance chief of staff Scott Comer, Northern California finance director Robert Stowe, finance director of data and strategic initiatives Daniel Parrish, finance director Allen Zachary and Miranda.

The release provides further evidence the DNC broke its own charter violations by favoring Clinton as the Democratic presidential nominee, long before any votes were cast.

Over the past several weeks, Guccifer 2.0 released several internal memos showing DNC staff strategizing to make Clinton the presidential nominee—as early as March 2015. In June 2016, Florida-based law firm, Beck & Lee, filed a class action lawsuit against Wasserman Schultz and the DNC based on the revelations from these leaked files.

Other emails show DNC staff in damage control over allegations from the Sanders campaign, when a report—corroborated by a Politico—revealed the DNC’s joint fundraising committee with the Clinton campaign was laundering money to the Clinton campaign instead of fundraising for down-ticket Democrats. Regardless of the fundraising tactics, because both major campaigns didn’t agree to use the joint fundraising committee super-PAC with the DNC, the DNC should have recused itself from participating with just the Clinton campaign.

The Wikileaks and Guccifer 2.0 leaks are the perfect end to a Democratic primary that undermined democracy at every possible opportunity while maintaining plausible deniability.

The party’s rules, including the use of super delegates—who disproportionately endorsed Clinton before the primaries began—are intended to provide the Democratic Party leverage over the election process. Throughout the primaries, decisions were made by DNC officials to help Clinton build and maintain a lead over Sanders.

More votes were cast for Clinton, but they were cast at the behest of a Democratic Party that downplayed her shortfalls to the extent that Sanders not only had to run against Clinton but also against the entire Democratic Establishment. Heading into the Democratic National Convention, voters are beginning to understand that their voices are of little concern to the leadership.

http://observer.com/2016/07/wikileaks-proves-primary-was-rigged-dnc-undermined-democracy/

[imiubu]

As a woman, the possibility of Hillary being our first woman president is beyond disgusting.

I don't actually have words for how very disappointed I am as she represents nothing of the values

I hold dear.  I certainly do not understand how these millennial women are supporting her.  Silly little girls.

[bax]

Do not feel bad, millenials support Bernie about 75%+ vs support Hillary 20%.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/17/74-year-old-bernie-sanderss-amazing-dominance-among-young-voters-in-1-chart/

[trichcycler]

As a woman, the possibility of Hillary being our first woman president is beyond disgusting.

I don't actually have words for how very disappointed I am as she represents nothing of the values

I hold dear.  I certainly do not understand how these millennial women are supporting her.  Silly little girls.

its lookin like hillary was slated for the win all along.  nobody had a chance perhaps. she has the key to the city,

the get out of jail cards, secret trade agreements, and is ready to pass go.......... hate the game, or the players, or both? 

I'm pretty sure they are all playing the same game and want the same results, we've had all kinds of people in office, and he game remains the same, as well as the con. hook, line, and sinker. we been hoodwinked for a long time

[trichcycler]

gonna take some serious raucous to distract those watching, maybe, this time.

[dutchfarm]

Good God, what a choice we have, wish they had a do-over voting slot to mark!!

                            Farmer Brown

[trichcycler]

Good God, what a choice we have, wish they had a do-over voting slot to mark!!

                            Farmer Brown

you know these "choices" are part of the con right?