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Republican Election Fraud

The biggest election fraud is Republican lies about elections. Joyce Vance details and debunks the latest in this morning’s post. One example: The viral claim of “ballot harvesting” that turns out to be a 25-year postal employee delivering mailed-in ballots to the election office. Which is literally 100% legal and his job.

Then there are the voter registration purges, Virginia, Texas, and Alabama among them. State officials purge from voter registration rolls anyone who has ever checked “non-citizen” or left that box blank when applying for a driver’s license or on any other official form. Except that this eliminates people who have become citizens, as well as those who erroneously fill out forms. And many who are removed through plain old human error during the purges.

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Republicans Target Voters, Election Officials 

Red poster, blue and white print: Vote as if the future depends on it. It does.

Voter fraud? The real fraud is in intimidating, harassing, and denying citizens the right to vote. And Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading the pack. 

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Letter to My Sister

Red poster, blue and white print: Vote as if the future depends on it. It does.

One of my sisters told me she doesn’t want to hear any more about the election. She says it’s too hard to figure out who is telling the truth. She thinks this year’s election and these politicians are no different than in any other year. 

A lot of people feel that way. They are wrong. This election really is different. 

Please listen. This is important. Our cousins include people who are Black, people who are immigrants, people who are Asian. I have friends who are gay and trans. My husband and children are Jewish. All of them are targets of the right-wing haters led by Donald Trump. If he wins, all of them are in danger. If he wins, our entire country is in danger.

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Voting down-ballot in Minnesota

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Minnesota Congressional districts from Wikipedia

Down-ballot races make a huge difference in post-election life, which is to say, in all of our lives, every day of every year. These are the people who make the laws (U.S. and state legislators), who preside over the justice system (district, appellate and supreme court judges), and who run the schools. Down-ballot voting this year also includes referendums on a Minnesota constitutional amendment and on a Minneapolis school tax levy. Continue reading

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Vote — to answer the attack on democracy

 

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Every day, a new tweet, a new speech, a new lie Trump-ets failure, rigged elections, voter fraud.

These are lies. We know they are lies. Every study, every bit of evidence, says voter fraud is vanishingly small. Small like 31 likely voter fraud cases out of more than 1 billion votes cast from 2000 to 2014.  Politifact puts it in perspective: more people are struck by lightning than accused of voter fraud. Continue reading

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Backing away from voting rights

Image by Daniel Lobo, used under Creative Commons license.

Image by Daniel Lobo, used under Creative Commons license.

Just a few weeks ago, it looked like this was the year for voting rights for convicted felons in Minnesota. Both Republicans and Democrats backed bills allowing convicted felons to vote after they were released from prison, even if they were still on probation or parole. Now the voting rights bill looks dead. Continue reading

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