Rebecca Solnit is a Curator of Fake News And Fake Information

[Snouter]

Anyone watch this nutcase on C-Span Book TV? How the fuck do these idiots get books published! She said that 15,000,000 afro americans were prevented from voting for Crooked Hillary.

 

[Pogo]

Link to whatever in the wide world of fuck you're talking about?

 

[Snouter]

Here it is Pogo! She is the embodiment of the radical "left," in other words a mentally ill broad suffering an identity crisis! To top it off, she presents ridiculous, half-assed, quasi-psychology to reinterpret reality to conform with her mental illness. Fast forward to 29:00 or so in which this "feminist" (a broad out of touch with her vagina and does not feel pretty) alleges 15 million afro-americans, the assumption they brainlessly vote democrat, were somehow blocked from voting Nov. 8! Lefties might enjoy the entire, nutty presentation though!

Mother Questions | Video | C-SPAN.org

 

[BluesLegend]

And it surprises you the left lies? They are filthy liars make a note.

 

[Snouter]

And as you know BlueLegend, the left not only presents fake news and fake information disguised in this case as "scholarship," the left tries to silence those who tell the truth in response!

 

[Camp]

Solnit makes clear in the video that she is only making an estimate. She has written extensively about voter disenfranchisement and its causes such as disenfranchisement caused by felony convictions in the African American population.
This woman has managed to earn a living writing her essays and opinions. Unlike a message board poster, her views are considered worthy of financial reward and considered as valid scholarly and educational works by a faction of the population large enough to make her works financially valuable.
It is highly unlikely the OP or critics on the thread have or will ever write something worthy enough of financial payment or even an appearance on C-Span to explain their opinions.

 

[edthecynic]

Anyone watch this nutcase on C-Span Book TV? How the fuck do these idiots get books published! She said that 15,000,000 afro americans were prevented from voting for Crooked Hillary.

It must be true or you wouldn't be so butthurt!

 

[Camp]

Anyone watch this nutcase on C-Span Book TV? How the fuck do these idiots get books published! She said that 15,000,000 afro americans were prevented from voting for Crooked Hillary.

You grossly distort what this woman said and no amount of funny faces will change the fact that you simply do not understand or grasp the logic and thesis of what she is offering an opinion on. You have no idea about what the topic is that she is discussing, let alone comprehend it enough to make an educated criticism.

 

[edthecynic]

The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters
Will an anti-voter-fraud program designed by one of Trump's advisers deny tens of thousands their right to vote in November?

When Donald Trump claimed, "the election's going to be rigged," he wasn't entirely wrong. But the threat was not, as Trump warned, from Americans committing the crime of "voting many, many times." What's far more likely to undermine democracy in November is the culmination of a decade-long Republican effort to disenfranchise voters under the guise of battling voter fraud. The latest tool: Election officials in more than two dozen states have compiled lists of citizens whom they allege could be registered in more than one state – thus potentially able to cast multiple ballots – and eligible to be purged from the voter rolls.

The data is processed through a system called the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, which is being promoted by a powerful Republican operative, and its lists of potential duplicate voters are kept confidential. But Rolling Stone obtained a portion of the list and the names of 1 million targeted voters. According to our analysis, the Crosscheck list disproportionately threatens solid Democratic constituencies: young, black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters – with some of the biggest possible purges underway in Ohio and North Carolina, two crucial swing states with tight Senate races.

/snip
In our effort to report on the program, we contacted every state for their Crosscheck list. But because voting twice is a felony, state after state told us their lists of suspects were part of a criminal investigation and, as such, confidential. Then we got a break. A clerk in Virginia sent us its Crosscheck list of suspects, which a letter from the state later said was done "in error."

The Virginia list was a revelation. In all, 342,556 names were listed as apparently registered to vote in both Virginia and another state as of January 2014. Thirteen percent of the people on the Crosscheck list, already flagged as inactive voters, were almost immediately removed, meaning a stunning 41,637 names were "canceled" from voter rolls, most of them just before Election Day.

We were able to obtain more lists – Georgia and Washington state, the total number of voters adding up to more than 1 million matches – and Crosscheck's results seemed at best deeply flawed. We found that one-fourth of the names on the list actually lacked a middle-name match. The system can also mistakenly identify fathers and sons as the same voter, ignoring designations of Jr. and Sr. A whole lot of people named "James Brown" are suspected of voting or registering twice, 357 of them in Georgia alone. But according to Crosscheck, James Willie Brown is supposed to be the same voter as James Arthur Brown. James Clifford Brown is allegedly the same voter as James Lynn Brown.

And those promised birth dates and Social Security numbers? The Crosscheck instruction manual says that "Social Security numbers are included for verification; the numbers might or might not match" – which leaves a crucial step in the identification process up to the states. Social Security numbers weren't even included in the state lists we obtained.

We had Mark Swedlund, a database expert whose clients include eBay and American Express, look at the data from Georgia and Virginia, and he was shocked by Crosscheck's "childish methodology." He added, "God forbid your name is Garcia, of which there are 858,000 in the U.S., and your first name is Joseph or Jose. You're probably suspected of voting in 27 states."

Swedlund's statistical analysis found that African-American, Latino and Asian names predominate, a simple result of the Crosscheck matching process, which spews out little more than a bunch of common names. No surprise: The U.S. Census data shows that minorities are overrepresented in 85 of 100 of the most common last names. If your name is Washington, there's an 89 percent chance you're African-American. If your last name is Hernandez, there's a 94 percent chance you're Hispanic. If your name is Kim, there's a 95 percent chance you're Asian.

The Crosscheck program, started by Kris Kobach, has spread to over two dozen states, tagging more than 7 million voters as possibly suspect. Christopher Smith/Washington Post/Getty

This inherent bias results in an astonishing one in six Hispanics, one in seven Asian-Americans and one in nine African-Americans in Crosscheck states landing on the list. Was the program designed to target voters of color? "I'm a data guy," Swedlund says. "I can't tell you what the intent was. I can only tell you what the outcome is. And the outcome is discriminatory against minorities."

 

[Camp]

The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters
Will an anti-voter-fraud program designed by one of Trump's advisers deny tens of thousands their right to vote in November?

When Donald Trump claimed, "the election's going to be rigged," he wasn't entirely wrong. But the threat was not, as Trump warned, from Americans committing the crime of "voting many, many times." What's far more likely to undermine democracy in November is the culmination of a decade-long Republican effort to disenfranchise voters under the guise of battling voter fraud. The latest tool: Election officials in more than two dozen states have compiled lists of citizens whom they allege could be registered in more than one state – thus potentially able to cast multiple ballots – and eligible to be purged from the voter rolls.

The data is processed through a system called the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, which is being promoted by a powerful Republican operative, and its lists of potential duplicate voters are kept confidential. But Rolling Stone obtained a portion of the list and the names of 1 million targeted voters. According to our analysis, the Crosscheck list disproportionately threatens solid Democratic constituencies: young, black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters – with some of the biggest possible purges underway in Ohio and North Carolina, two crucial swing states with tight Senate races.

/snip
In our effort to report on the program, we contacted every state for their Crosscheck list. But because voting twice is a felony, state after state told us their lists of suspects were part of a criminal investigation and, as such, confidential. Then we got a break. A clerk in Virginia sent us its Crosscheck list of suspects, which a letter from the state later said was done "in error."

The Virginia list was a revelation. In all, 342,556 names were listed as apparently registered to vote in both Virginia and another state as of January 2014. Thirteen percent of the people on the Crosscheck list, already flagged as inactive voters, were almost immediately removed, meaning a stunning 41,637 names were "canceled" from voter rolls, most of them just before Election Day.

We were able to obtain more lists – Georgia and Washington state, the total number of voters adding up to more than 1 million matches – and Crosscheck's results seemed at best deeply flawed. We found that one-fourth of the names on the list actually lacked a middle-name match. The system can also mistakenly identify fathers and sons as the same voter, ignoring designations of Jr. and Sr. A whole lot of people named "James Brown" are suspected of voting or registering twice, 357 of them in Georgia alone. But according to Crosscheck, James Willie Brown is supposed to be the same voter as James Arthur Brown. James Clifford Brown is allegedly the same voter as James Lynn Brown.

And those promised birth dates and Social Security numbers? The Crosscheck instruction manual says that "Social Security numbers are included for verification; the numbers might or might not match" – which leaves a crucial step in the identification process up to the states. Social Security numbers weren't even included in the state lists we obtained.

We had Mark Swedlund, a database expert whose clients include eBay and American Express, look at the data from Georgia and Virginia, and he was shocked by Crosscheck's "childish methodology." He added, "God forbid your name is Garcia, of which there are 858,000 in the U.S., and your first name is Joseph or Jose. You're probably suspected of voting in 27 states."

Swedlund's statistical analysis found that African-American, Latino and Asian names predominate, a simple result of the Crosscheck matching process, which spews out little more than a bunch of common names. No surprise: The U.S. Census data shows that minorities are overrepresented in 85 of 100 of the most common last names. If your name is Washington, there's an 89 percent chance you're African-American. If your last name is Hernandez, there's a 94 percent chance you're Hispanic. If your name is Kim, there's a 95 percent chance you're Asian.

The Crosscheck program, started by Kris Kobach, has spread to over two dozen states, tagging more than 7 million voters as possibly suspect. Christopher Smith/Washington Post/Getty

This inherent bias results in an astonishing one in six Hispanics, one in seven Asian-Americans and one in nine African-Americans in Crosscheck states landing on the list. Was the program designed to target voters of color? "I'm a data guy," Swedlund says. "I can't tell you what the intent was. I can only tell you what the outcome is. And the outcome is discriminatory against minorities."

The OP thinks statistical analysis is psychology.

 

[Snouter]

Looks like a triggered some folks! That Rolling Stone article is a clear example of fake news.

 

[edthecynic]

Looks like a triggered some folks! That Rolling Stone article is a clear example of fake news.

Truth is always fake news to Russian operatives.

 

[Snouter]

Did Rolling Stone name one individual who was not allowed to vote when he or she appeared with proper identification at the assigned local polling place? RESPOND!

 

[edthecynic]

Did Rolling Stone name one individual who was not allowed to vote when he or she appeared with proper identification at the assigned local polling place? RESPOND!

As you well know, the RS story was published BEFORE the election.
But there ARE articles from after the election:

The GOP’s Attack on Voting Rights Was the Most Under-Covered Story of 2016
I documented stories of voters in Wisconsin—including a 99-year-old man—who made two trips to the polls and one to the DMV on Election Day just to be able to vote, while others decided not to vote at all because they were denied IDs. When Margie Mueller, an 85-year-old woman from Plymouth, Wisconsin, wasn’t allowed to vote with her expired driver’s license, her husband, Alvin, decided not to vote either. They were both Democrats. “The damn Republicans,” he said, “don’t want Latinos and old people to vote.”

Andrew Voegele, a schoolteacher, recently moved from Minnesota to Wisconsin and was forced to cast a provisional ballot yesterday that will not be counted unless he surrenders his Minnesota license and spends $34 for a Wisconsin driver’s license by Friday. The ACLU filed a court order last night to have his vote count. Over 200 people in Wisconsin petitioned the DMV on Election Day to get a voter ID.

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On Election Day, there were 868 fewer polling places in states with a long history of voting discrimination, like Arizona, Texas, and North Carolina. These changes impacted hundreds of thousands of voters, yet received almost no coverage. In North Carolina, as my colleague Joan Walsh reported, black turnout decreased 16 percent during the first week of early voting because “in 40 heavily black counties, there were 158 fewer early polling places.” Even if these restrictions had no outcome on the election, it’s fundamentally immoral to keep people from voting in a democracy. The media devoted hours and hours to Trump’s absurd claim that the election was rigged against him, while spending precious little time on the real threat that voters faced.

 

[NYcarbineer]

To the modern RWnut,

'Fake news' is the new nickname for 'Truth we don't like'.

 

[Snouter]

a 99 year old man—who made two trips to the polls and one to the DMV on Election Day just to be able to vote...

That is a lot of travel in one day for a 99 year old. Why didn't he just do a mail-in ballot? Is/was he an illegal alien?

When Margie Mueller, an 85-year-old woman from Plymouth, Wisconsin, wasn’t allowed to vote with her expired driver’s license, her husband, Alvin, decided not to vote either. They were both Democrats. “The damn Republicans,” he said, “don’t want Latinos and old people to vote.”

Those racists should follow the voting laws next time, assuming they are American citizens.

Andrew Voegele, a schoolteacher, recently moved from Minnesota to Wisconsin and was forced to cast a provisional ballot yesterday that will not be counted unless he surrenders his Minnesota license and spends $34 for a Wisconsin driver’s license by Friday.

What else is that individual doing that is illegal?

WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE 15,000,000 "FELONS" OR WHATEVER WHO WERE DENIED THE RIGHT TO VOTE FOR CROOKED HILLARY ACCORDING TO FAKE NEWS, FAKE INFORMATION NUTCASE REBECCA SOLNIT-WIT!!!

 

[Snouter]

Winning threads is what I do. Any follow up questions!

 

[edthecynic]

Winning threads is what I do. Any follow up questions!

Only a Trumpist would think making a fool of themselves is "winning."