Gerrymandering Your Vote – Where to Draw the Line – Based upon Partisan & Racial Profiles to Create District Lines. All of this to dilute the vote of a minority or nonincumbent party to disenfranchise voters. Recent US Supreme Court ruling in the case of S. Carolina vs NAACP exemplifies that it is okay to disenfranchise for partisan purposes, as long as the main purpose is not based upon race. A cloaked inquiry by the US Supreme Court now allows states to gerrymander while taking race into account, as long as a state legislature’s primary purpose for redistricting – doesn’t do so for the predominant purpose of excluding or limiting black votes.
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Election Security: Securing the Vote While Securing the System
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November 15, 2020 – The United States Elections have been deemed “safe” and “secure” by Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in addition to non-partisan organization VerifiedVoting.org. Yet, despite their findings, Trump continues his bellicose pronouncements that the election was “rigged”…
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October 31, 2020 – Trump Up-Ends 137 year old Federal Civil Service Workforce Act by Executive Order – The Pendleton Act – protective of federal civil service employees, was signed into law on January 16, 1883 by the 21st President of the United States, Chester Alan Arthur. The law’s intent…
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April 14, 2020 – Wisconsin voters were dealt a bad hand–a pandemic during a statewide election and a Democratic primary. The options: putting them in harms way, shuttering their polling places, or ending the statewide absentee ballot campaigns. By no fault of their own, these voters were caught in the…
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July 20, 2018 – For those who have only read about treason in the story-books, we have a real-life event going on that may scholars believe is unprecedented in our nation’s history. That is where a sitting president’s closest advisors have close affiliations with high-ranking members of a foreign adversary–here…
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January 24, 2018-Recently, both the US Supreme Court and state courts have been taking up the highly controversial and highly politicized issue of political gerrymandering–that is the artificial manipulation of voting districts by those in state legislatures to favor the party in power–their own. It’s accomplished by these legislatures creating…
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March 24, 2016 – As many may already be aware, the voting lines for the Presidential Primary were extraordinarily long in Maricopa County Arizona. In Maricopa, some predominantly Latino areas only got one–or no polling places at all! One might ask, How can this be, this is America? As a…
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