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‘It’s going to be an angry mob’: Kentucky cuts number of polling stations by 95 percent ahead of primary voting
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Gerrymandering extraordinaire
Edit: Wait... more like election disenfranchisement extraordinaire.
Edit: Wait... more like election disenfranchisement extraordinaire.
Again, this is why the left needs to wake up and start paying attention to state and local elections.
After that they need to go to community meetings, volunteer on commissions, etc.
These things happen because we only show up on election day.
After that they need to go to community meetings, volunteer on commissions, etc.
These things happen because we only show up on election day.
There needs to be. Taking away someone's voice gives them the right to burn your shit down.
Ahhh Gerrymandering... it's still a thing and is definitely real. I really hope more attention is placed on this with the media.
This is Jim Crow. This is straight up disenfranchisement.
How a judge could okay this simply because they offered an early vote and absentee ballots is simply amoral.
This should really be a national scandal. It needs to be hammered home to those that don't pay attention to stuff like this that the state of Kentucky and the GOP aren't being incompetent or cautious regarding Covid here. This is intimidation and malicious voter suppresion by design, held up in courts by Republican judges.
I'm curious all. Is there anything we can do as citizens regarding this? Apart from the obvious like trying to convince people to not vote in people who let shit like this happen.
Everything's "legal" when it's to protect the sanctity of Mitch McConnell's senate seat.
That said, so long as it's only red states pulling this nonsense we shouldn't panic just yet.
Spread word around. Alert your lawmakers to make sure this doesn't happen and to start prosecuting for voter fraud.
Very encouraged that America's applying the same can-do attitude toward voter suppression as we are to Covid.
If ignoring doesn't solve the problem we don't want to hear about it!
If ignoring doesn't solve the problem we don't want to hear about it!
I wish our Democratic senators and reps would be more vocal about this stuff. Even if it's not your state. Go on every channel and scream it from the rooftop.
The country refuses to pass national voting standards. It's insane that this country is so damn backwards and it's all on purpose.
616,000 voters with one place to vote. If they managed to be so efficient to have one voter vote per second it would take one week non-stop to have them all vote.
Now polls are only open for 12 hours on one day and obviously not all of those registered voters will show up or need to vote in person. If 75% of those voters either voted by mail/absentee or don't show up, they would still have to get roughly 4 people to vote every second for those 12 hours to get them all done.
To get that down to the still impossible task of 1 voter per second for 12 hours, only 7% of registered voters could show up to vote in person.
(sorry I was bored and had a calculator)
Now polls are only open for 12 hours on one day and obviously not all of those registered voters will show up or need to vote in person. If 75% of those voters either voted by mail/absentee or don't show up, they would still have to get roughly 4 people to vote every second for those 12 hours to get them all done.
To get that down to the still impossible task of 1 voter per second for 12 hours, only 7% of registered voters could show up to vote in person.
(sorry I was bored and had a calculator)
I expect something similar to a revolutionary or a civil war. The GOP are asking for it.
So even in the best case scenario it's still pretty much impossible to vote.
Thank you and your calculator. <3
Unless I"m confused, doesn't Kentucky still do county by county voting? So even if there's only 1 station for that county, and only 10% of the people get to vote, it'd still be the same result?
Disenfranchisement is, however, unconstitutional. While judges have leeway when applying the law, this should be in clear violation. Should.
Gerrymandering is no longer enough. Now they must blatantly prevent as many people as possible from voting
The Jefferson County polls you're referencing are actually open for over a week (they opened this Monday IIRC, and will be open through the Tuesday primary).
The Supreme Court voted 5-4 just this year to the exact same thing happening in Wisconsin. John Roberts is the biggest opponent to the Voting Rights Act on the Supreme court.
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