Will Repub voter suppression efforts ever end?

[berg80]

Why This Section of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 is Crucial in 2024​

President Ulysses Grant signed the Civil Rights Act of 1871 — also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act — on April 20, 1871. It was one of his biggest achievements in office.

Fast forward more than 150 years, and Section 1983 of that act is one of the most crucial laws in the fight for voting rights.

It’s especially important now because last year, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gutted the Voting Rights Act in seven states — Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.

Section 1983 became an important law for pro-voting groups to use to file their voting rights lawsuits in those states, and it has become a tool in other states, too.

However, the 8th Circuit could also render Section 1983 useless in its jurisdiction in an ongoing North Dakota case — which would be devastating.

Here’s what you should know about this statute.

Why This Section of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 is Crucial in 2024

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

It is not a coincidence that attempts to suppress the vote by Repubs exploded after the 2020 election. In keeping with the motto, "if you can't beat 'em, keep 'em from voting."

Voting Laws Roundup: June 2023​

State legislatures have passed a near-record number of new restrictive voting laws so far this year, while a pro-democracy movement presses on.

Voting Laws Roundup: June 2023

State legislatures have passed a near-record number of new restrictive voting laws so far this year, while a pro-democracy movement presses on.

www.brennancenter.org

States Have Added Nearly 100 Restrictive Laws Since SCOTUS Gutted the Voting Rights Act 10 Years Ago​

States Have Added Nearly 100 Restrictive Laws Since SCOTUS Gutted the Voting Rights Act 10 Years Ago

Many of the new laws are in states with a history of racial voting discrimination.

www.brennancenter.org

 

[Darkwind]

Requirements to provide proof that you have that right to vote -- ONLY US Citizens do -- is not voter suppression.

The 8th did no such thing. Whine some more.

 

[Roy C]

Will lazy people who think they can vote from their couch ever end?

 

[TheGreatSatan]

The people who make elections prone to fraud are the biggest threat to democracy.

Democrats enable voter fraud.

 

[berg80]

Requirements to provide proof that you have that right to vote -- ONLY US Citizens do -- is not voter suppression.

The 8th did no such thing. Whine some more.

Why do you suppose voter suppression efforts grew exponentially after the SCOTUS gutted parts of the VRA and trump lost in 2020?

 

[berg80]

The people who make elections prone to fraud are the biggest threat to democracy.

Democrats enable voter fraud.

They're doing a terrible job since voter fraud is virtually non-existent.

 

[Darkwind]

Why do you suppose voter suppression efforts grew exponentially after the SCOTUS gutted parts of the VRA and trump lost in 2020?

They haven't. But it appears your paranoia is out of control. Again.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

They're doing a terrible job since voter fraud is virtually non-existent.

^^^ If you believe America's elections are virtually fraudless, you're in a cult

 

[MarathonMike]

Why This Section of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 is Crucial in 2024​

President Ulysses Grant signed the Civil Rights Act of 1871 — also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act — on April 20, 1871. It was one of his biggest achievements in office.

Fast forward more than 150 years, and Section 1983 of that act is one of the most crucial laws in the fight for voting rights.

It’s especially important now because last year, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gutted the Voting Rights Act in seven states — Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.

Section 1983 became an important law for pro-voting groups to use to file their voting rights lawsuits in those states, and it has become a tool in other states, too.

However, the 8th Circuit could also render Section 1983 useless in its jurisdiction in an ongoing North Dakota case — which would be devastating.

Here’s what you should know about this statute.

Why This Section of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 is Crucial in 2024

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

It is not a coincidence that attempts to suppress the vote by Repubs exploded after the 2020 election. In keeping with the motto, "if you can't beat 'em, keep 'em from voting."

Voting Laws Roundup: June 2023​

State legislatures have passed a near-record number of new restrictive voting laws so far this year, while a pro-democracy movement presses on.

Voting Laws Roundup: June 2023

State legislatures have passed a near-record number of new restrictive voting laws so far this year, while a pro-democracy movement presses on.

www.brennancenter.org

States Have Added Nearly 100 Restrictive Laws Since SCOTUS Gutted the Voting Rights Act 10 Years Ago​

States Have Added Nearly 100 Restrictive Laws Since SCOTUS Gutted the Voting Rights Act 10 Years Ago

Many of the new laws are in states with a history of racial voting discrimination.

www.brennancenter.org

If you are too stupid to figure out voter registration, then you are too stupid to vote.

 

[berg80]

Why Is It Important Now?​

On November 20, 2023, the 8th Circuit ruled there’s no private right of action under Section 2 of the VRA, and they reaffirmed the decision in January. Many argue there’s an implied private right of action under Section 2, but the court stated since Congress never explicitly said that private plaintiffs can sue under that statute of the VRA, they can’t.

This decision stemmed from a redistricting case brought in December 2021 on behalf of the Arkansas State Conference of the NAACP and the Arkansas Public Policy Panel.

“The ruling itself goes against 60 years of unbroken precedent and practice in which courts, including the Supreme Court multiple times, have granted private plaintiffs relief under Section 2 in hundreds of cases,” said Sophia Lin Lakin, director of the Voting Rights Project at the ACLU.

 

[Billiejeens]

Why do you suppose voter suppression efforts grew exponentially after the SCOTUS gutted parts of the VRA and trump lost in 2020?

It never happened.

 

[berg80]

If you are too stupid to figure out voter registration, then you are too stupid to vote.

If you are too stupid to understand the insidious ways Repubs try to suppress the vote you might be a trump supporter.

 

[Billiejeens]

Why Is It Important Now?​

On November 20, 2023, the 8th Circuit ruled there’s no private right of action under Section 2 of the VRA, and they reaffirmed the decision in January. Many argue there’s an implied private right of action under Section 2, but the court stated since Congress never explicitly said that private plaintiffs can sue under that statute of the VRA, they can’t.

This decision stemmed from a redistricting case brought in December 2021 on behalf of the Arkansas State Conference of the NAACP and the Arkansas Public Policy Panel.

“The ruling itself goes against 60 years of unbroken precedent and practice in which courts, including the Supreme Court multiple times, have granted private plaintiffs relief under Section 2 in hundreds of cases,” said Sophia Lin Lakin, director of the Voting Rights Project at the ACLU.

ACLU !

C'mon bergy, be better.

 

[toobfreak]

Will Repub voter suppression efforts ever end?​

Nope. They will never give up trying to suppress illegal votes and non-citizens and dead people from voting, just as they will continue to ban porno books from grade school libraries.

Them Repubs be crazy.

 

[Anathema]

Not until we have finally created a system to ensure an educated, informed and invested electorate of verified US Citizens voting only once and only in the proper location.

 

[GMCGeneral]

Plus the electronic voting is absolutely prone to hacking and fraud. We need to return to the good old fashioned "blue booth" voting machines. 100% foolproof and leaves a guaranteed paper trail.

 

[MarathonMike]

If you are too stupid to understand the insidious ways Repubs try to suppress the vote you might be a trump supporter.

Voter ID or you don't get to vote. That is not voter suppression. You just want full ability to tamper with elections.

 

[GMCGeneral]

Voter ID or you don't get to vote. That is not voter suppression. You just want full ability to tamper with elections.

EXACTAMUNDO!!! What is it about less than $10 in New York to get your OFFICIAL, STATE ISSUED non-driver's ID, and that's without the "RealID" add on to be able to cross into Canuckistan.

 

[whitehall]

Historians agree that the U.S. Grant administration was about the most corrupt in history. Apparently lefties tolerate corruption as long as they can pretend to fight the KKK which was the democrat party's political muscle. The democrat plantation mentality pretends to support black voters while it gets away with claiming that blacks are unable to obtain something as basic as a photo I.D. in the 21st century.

 

[GMCGeneral]

Historians agree that the U.S. Grant administration was about the most corrupt in history. Apparently lefties tolerate corruption as long as they can pretend to fight the KKK which was the democrat party's political muscle. The democrat plantation mentality pretends to support black voters while it gets away with claiming that blacks are unable to obtain something as basic as a photo I.D. in the 21st century.

Well, it is the states' DMVs we're talking about after all.