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    • No - you’re a Repug who happens to not buy into the cult of the orange felon.  But you’ll give all his enablers a pass immediately.  So save the lecture 
    • when the EC compromise became the 12th amendment in 1804... was it racist?  history seems to believe so.  Voting Rights: A Short History  America began its great democratic experiment in the late 1700s by granting the right to vote to a narrow subset of society — white male landowners. Even as barriers to voting began receding in the ensuing decades, many Southern states erected new ones, such as poll taxes and literacy tests, aimed at keeping the vote out of the hands of African American men. Over time, voting rights became a bipartisan priority as people worked at all levels to enact constitutional amendments and laws expanding access to the vote based on race and ethnicity, gender, disability, age and other factors. The landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed by Congress took major steps to curtail voter suppression. Thus began a new era of push-and-pull on voting rights, with the voting age reduced to 18 from 21 and the enshrinement of voting protections for language minorities and people with disabilities. Greater voter enfranchisement was met with fresh resistance and in 2013, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in its ruling on Shelby County v. Holder, paving the way for states and jurisdictions with a history of voter suppression to enact restrictive voter identification laws. A whopping 23 states created new obstacles to voting in the decade leading up to the 2018 elections, according to the nonpartisan coalition Election Protection.  These activities have a demonstrable and disproportionate effect on populations that are already underrepresented at the polls. Adding to the problems, government at all levels has largely failed to make the necessary investments in elections (from technology to poll-worker training) to ensure the integrity and efficiency of the system.  1700s: Voting generally limited to white property holders  1800s: Official barriers to voting start to recede  1920: Women win the vote  1960: Southern states ramp up barriers to voting  1964: The 24th amendment targets poll taxes  1965: The Voting Rights Act passes Congress  1971: Young people win the vote  1975: Voting Rights Act expanded to protect language minorities  1982: Congress requires new voting protections for people with disabilities  1993: “Motor Voter” becomes law  2000: Election problems spotlight need for reform  2002: Congress passes the Help America Vote Act 2010: Philanthropy embraces need for reform June 2013: The Supreme Court strikes a blow to the Voting Right Act August 2013: States ramp up barriers to voting 2014: The voting rights movement coalesces to fight suppression 2016: Presidential election and claims of fraud October 2018: State, local officials keep erecting new barriers to voting continue November 2018: Election draws record number of voters but problems remain 2019: Voting rights groups prepare for the 2020 Census and redistricting In the same way that partisan interests and those in power have used voting rights laws and policies to suppress the vote, they also have attempted to use the U.S. Census and the subsequent congressional redistricting process to advance their political goals. The Trump administration, for example, fought unsuccessfully for two years to add a question to the 2020 census asking if someone is a citizen of the United States. Voting rights and civil rights groups said this was a transparent attempt to instill fear in immigrant communities, with the result of undercounting the immigrant population and reducing its political power and voice. Other concerns about the 2020 census include chronic underfunding for the work of accurately counting everyone in the nation. To the extent that the census cuts corners, there is a well-founded belief that it will result in an undercount of already underrepresented populations, including low-income populations and people of color. https://www.carnegie.org/our-work/article/voting-rights-timeline/   Make America Great Again  
    • His sharpies couldn’t save him    
    • Still am just not blindly and supportive of all of them or on all their supposed ideals.  You blindly scoop up any bullshit from the left just like the magats take Donnie's shit.  There is no difference, be proud of your group think stupidity.
    • Idiots crying about the EC
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