Raven wrote on Nov 29
th, 2020 at 6:01pm:
There has been no evidence of Democrats trying to steal this election. Yet there is evidence that Republicans have been trying to steal elections for years.
They cry voter fraud and have been using this bogus claim as an excuse to strategically block the votes of young people and people of colour.
One of the easy ways to make it harder for young people to vote is to close polling locations on college campuses.
In 2014, Florida Republicans closed on campus early voting locations. It took a legal battle to get them reopened. In 2019, Texas Republicans used a legal loophole to close on campus early voting in their state.
They also like to systematically target voters of colour. In Georgia, at the time that then Secretary of State Brian Kemp, was running for Governor, the Republican controlled state government had already been purging voters from the rolls for so called 'inactivity.' The purges disporportionately imapacted people of colour.
In North Dakota, Republicans made a new rule that to vote you needed to have a street address on your ID. North Dakota has a large Native American population, many of whom live on Reservations and use a P.O Box to receive mail.
This managed to get overturned in court. But it hasn't stopped Republican governments from trying to prevent historically non republicans, their right to vote.
in 2016, Wisconsin's newly implemented voter ID law blocked an estimated an estimated 200,000 legal voters from casting their ballots. And they were disproportionately Black voters.
While you are thinking of that 200,000 number, remember Trump won the State by about 23,000 votes.
North Carolina Republican's have gone to court several times to make it easier to reject mail in votes on technicalities and in 2020 these changes were having a disproportionate effect on black voters. It was reported that over 40% of early votes were from black voters, even though they accounted for only 22% of the states total population.
Nationwide people of colour are over 7 times more likely to wait over an hour to vote. People of colour, people with college degrees and young people are more likely to live in cities and Republicans, predictably have tried to make it harder to vote in big cities.
Republican Governor Greg Abbott declared that each county in Texas would have only 1 ballot drop off box.
Loving County has under 200 people in it. 1 drop box does them fine.
Harris County, where Huston is, has almost 5 million people. 1 ballot drop box for 5 million people? How big is that box?
One thing that helps big cities cut down on massive voting lines is early in person voting. In Wisconsin, cities like Madison and Milwaukee tried to have 4 weeks of early in person voting. But Republicans passed a law limiting them to two weeks.
Also, long voter lines in big cities can be avoided if you vote by mail.
Historically, voting by mail has not been a partisan issue. But Trump turned it into that. Republicans were much more likely to vote in person, Democrats by mail. So guess which party has been trying to have mail in ballots discarded.
The Republican Nation Committee was involved in lawsuits in 17 different states to try to make it harder to vote. But lawsuits aren't the only way to mess with mail in votes. You can mess with the mail itself.
Louis DeJoy, who donated millions to Trump, was appointed postmaster general. Mail delays were reported all over the country.
Finally, Republicans in multiple states fought for laws preventing mail in ballots from being counted before election day. They couldn't even start processing them. The envelopes had to be opened, signatures verified and then the ballots run through machines by hand.
That by itself is not a big deal, unless, say someone started pretending there was something suspicious about the delay.
And then of course there is gerrymandering, voter intimidation and coordinated disinformation campaigns.
Republicans have turned rigging elections into an artform
The level of intellectual dishonesty here is truly disgusting. The verifiable info I present is ignored, there is no point in discussing this with you fanatics.
Your just regurgitating anti Trump propaganda. I spent many days at polling stations here - I have a better idea of what happened than you.
So you posters don't care if the voting system was illegal as long as your favorite Chinese puppet Joe wins!
Have you any idea what you're doing? This is theft on a massive scale. If someone steals everything you own, is that OK with you? If you break the rules because you think it's in your favor its also just time before someone does the same to you.
Sheesh! I'm just wasting my time. Stupid lowlifes!
So you are unable to refute anything said nor provide any evidence to support your claims. You are an ignorant lowlife.