anyway I don’t think the story of the 2016 election is that America wanted Trump.
I think the story of the US election is that a supreme court decision allowed states with a history of totalitarianism to arbitrarily change voting law in ways that made it disproportionately difficult for people likely to vote Democrat to vote while a foreign country was running an intelligence campaign to discourage voting on the left and, real time, prod right wing voters in important districts to vote during the election in a race with massive question marks about the security of voting infrastructure, with a widely unpopular Democratic presidential candidate–
And Trump still lost. By roughly three million votes.
That’s six times the loss George W Bush had when he won the electoral college without winning the popular vote in 2000.
Hilary Clinton won the popular vote by a larger margin than Jimmy Carter or Richard Nixon or John Kennedy; she just won it in the wrong places.
Trump is now president because the electoral college assigns more weight to rural states, which are also states with more discriminatory voter laws and more disenfranchisement and therefore states in which it is harder to vote for people likely to vote Democrat.
And all of that is what I mean when I say the biggest problem with the American system is gerrymandering.
…When they’re suppressing votes, they’re going to come up with any kind of excuse about what your problem is.
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After the seniors got off the bus, they were initially told they could
ride in a county van provided by the senior center to go vote, Brown
said. But then the seniors had to get off the van because the senior
center’s leaders decided it was close to lunchtime, and the seniors
could vote another day.
“Black Voters Matter had received permission in advance for the event at the senior center, Brown said. The event was originally intended to encourage seniors to vote, and when some of the seniors asked whether they could ride the bus to an early-voting location, Black Voters Matter agreed to take them.But someone apparently saw the bus, painted with the words “The South is Rising Tour,” and called county government offices, Brown said. That led to the phone call from the county clerk to the senior center. When they were asked, the senior citizens agreed to leave the bus.“
I live in North Carolina, and I want to point out that it was our state government, which is the result of gerrymandering and suppression like this, who did this, and most of the normal people who live in the state do not endorse it.
The “if voting did anything they’d make it illegal” quip is a pretty strong argument that voting matters a lot, because they’ve been consistently trying to make or keep voting illegal for poor and marginalized peoples for several centuries now
I mean check out what’s going on in Georgia and North Dakota this week alone if you have any doubts.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to toss out an appeals court order that allows North Dakota to enforce its voter ID requirement during the 2018 elections.
The request to toss out the order came from a group of Native American residents who are challenging a new state law that requires voters to present identification that includes a current residential street address.
The challengers argued the new rule disenfranchises a disproportionate share of the population because many Native American voters live on reservations without standard addresses.
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