Voter Supression hits home?

That's terrible.. surely its illegal to do that?

 

I dont understand how this works because I'm in an open primary state so i've never registered with a party - it seems crazy that a political party can change your affiliation for you without filling out any sort of formal paperwork. Wow

 

I'm sure you'll be able to vote in the primaries for your corrupted Democrat judges and school board officials tommorow no problem.. woohoo going to Cuba..

 

I get junk in my mailbox from every political party.

At best, it was probably sent out by mistake by some Republican mailing clerk who works a boring-ass job sending out the same message to as many people as possible, and got your son's address mixed up with someone else's.

That'd be very concerning if his party registration changed without his consent.

 

now that's some voter suppression right there. if you don't jump on the two party bandwagon you can't vote in primaries at all?

 

I don't have a mailbox........

 

I'm not bi-polar .

 

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Sadly, the only reason voter suppression ever becomes an issue, is because our votes no longer matter, because nobody is fucking listening to anybody else, or even themselves, preferring to keep voting for whoever advertises the most and shove their collective heads up their asses. Nazis smell weakness and they will continue to exploit the fact our votes no longer matter, to give the public the impression such things just don't matter anymore. Its how the Big Lie works. Just keep telling them you know what you are doing, as calmly as possible, until you need a Hitler.

Fascists practice their calm voices and crocodile smiles, because their natural tendency is to scream at each other at a KKK rally, and they have to recruit people. The joke is that you can't fake professional wrestling because its already fake, even in Libertarian Paradise by the sea Maryland where its illegal to vote for Mickey Mouse, and nobody can screw you like a porn star, unless you are the president of the United States. Hitler was one of many clowns, who scared people to death. It is not a coincide that our glorious leader is a huge fan of professional wrestling and a reality TV star, and always has a smooth talking calm comeback ready for the press. Even his outrageous comb-over screams that he is in command, while our government today is basically run by lawyers just like him.

Low-low-as-you-can-go government at Walmart prices if you are a card carrying member of the KKK or the Libertarian Party.

 

That surprisingly low

 

What is/was the official/original point of having to register in certain states?

Doesn't it make sense to have open primaries in every state?

 

The idea behind closed primaries is to discourage people from opposing parties to vote and manipulate the outcome of the party’s primary. If you wanted to vote for a candidate of a party, you’d have to register and become a member of that party before doing so.

A couple years ago, Oregon had a statewide measure for people to vote on whether or not they wanted to change this state from a closed to an open primary. NO votes won in a landslide

 

Only because history has proven neither party can be trusted with anything, including the constitution. Can you feel the love America... say it nice and soft, I love America, I love my reality TV.

 

I can imagine that some kind of voter suppression has been practiced since voting began. Same as wiretaps, which likely go back to Alexander G. Bell. Any expectation that the state will just "take care of it" is a relaxation of common sense. If you're not proactive about the status of your voting capability, why be surprised and outraged when even a clerical error can ruin it?

I know why states SAY they're "cleaning up the voter roles", because they can get away with it. Especially when they have thousands of examples of poorly initiated voter registrations. The government gets all the fuel they want for that train. Provided by the citizenry. Naturally I'm not "supporting" or "condoning" this obvious government power grab. But I'm not going to pretend it doesn't exist. No matter who is in office.

Stacy Abrams is STILL saying she was robbed by Kemp and should be the governor. While I agree that Kemp should have recused himself from anything related to voting, it would have been the prudent thing to do, there's no law that says he has to. Which is why I understand Stacy's futile overtures. He set himself up for every criticism she can create on the matter.

She can beat him in another couple of years. If she fixes the registration mess that so many of her own people created (through incompetence as opposed to malice), things will be different. They were in a rush last time and made lots of mistakes that made it easy to disqualify.

Oh, and, both parties do this shit.

 

The ultimate voter suppression is fooling people into believing they have any real vote. Fuck em, I have asked people to provide a single shred of evidence that my vote still matters for my entire life, and I have yet to see a single piece of evidence. On the contrary, I see a mountain of evidence from even Yale and Harvard that my vote no longer matters. Its not rocket science people, and if nobody can prove to you mathematically that your vote still matters, then it doesn't. Only one study that I have even heard of second hand was ever done on whether apathetic voters are correct, and their vote no longer matters. The result was a resounding no, it would not have made the slightest difference if any of them had voted.

 

Even with that in mind the vote is something to fight for on a personal basis. Sure, it's all an illusion, run by a dozen or so global families. But consider how these Triskelions might be using the vote in the way a scientist might utilize a randomizer. It would be an element of feedback to measure the effects of marketing, er, uh, campaign messaging.

Ultimately, the politicians are reaching for a brass ring that most will never catch. So the cash in along the way as much as possible. I think there's a middle ground in how we invest in politics. I'm not a fan of it the way I have been in years passed. It's fallen into the same quality as "professional" wrestling.