And then there's Wisconsin.

[berg80]

Pointing out obvious on-video and geolocated cheating makes you a "election denier"

No. Believing that anecdotal examples of fraud, which were carried out by voters on both sides, were sufficient to change the result of the election is what makes you an election denier.

 

[berg80]

America is now a tyranny of the minority

History and current polling both tell us that the House of Representatives will likely flip over to Republican control in the November midterms. What happens then? Actual governance will come to a standstill. There will be a flurry of investigations on everything from the Justice Department to Hunter Biden to the border crisis. The Jan. 6 committee will almost certainly be disbanded. And it’s not implausible to imagine that President Biden will be impeached.

How did we get here? There are, of course, many reasons. But the central facilitating factor is surely the way that U.S. politics has, over the past few decades, increasingly empowered the extremes of political parties at the expense of the mainstream.

The primary system American parties use to choose their candidates is extremely unusual; no other major democracy has one quite like it. Primaries ensure that the candidates chosen are selected by slivers of the parties — around 20 percent of all eligible voters. And this selection is not at all representative — these are the most intense, agitated activists, often far more extreme in their views than run-of-the-mill registered Republicans or Democrats. Add to this decades of sophisticated, computer-enabled gerrymandering, and you get extreme candidates who run in safe districts where the only threat to them is a primary candidate who is even more extreme.

The Washington Post has analyzed Republicans running for the Senate, House and certain statewide offices and found that a majority could be classified as “election deniers” — people who have in some way questioned, challenged or refused to accept the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Of these 291 candidates, 171 are running in safe Republican districts. So what began as a fringe theory, promoted by Donald Trump but (initially) rejected by most of the Republican Party’s leaders, has now become the majority view of the party.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...rimaries-driving-polarization-radicalization/

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

The tyranny of the minority being the national project Repubs have been working on for years.

Exactly.

The right’s war on democracy continues.

 

[berg80]

Exactly.

The right’s war on democracy continues.

If anything it has accelerated in intensity since Trump lost the 2020 election. Now they are promoting democracy's death blow.

Moore v. Harper, Explained

The debunked “independent state legislature theory” is on the Supreme Court’s docket, with potentially disastrous consequences.

www.brennancenter.org

 

[Rogue AI]

The problem with the WI SC's partisan language in their decision is calling the drop box votes illegal despite the absence of fraud.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A highly anticipated nonpartisan audit of the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin released Friday did not identify any widespread fraud in the battleground state, which a key Republican legislative leader said shows its elections are “safe and secure.”

The report from the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau did make dozens of recommendations on how the state might improve its elections. It also determined that dozens of voting machines it reviewed worked correctly. Some conservatives have called for reviews of all voting machines.

“Despite concerns with statewide elections procedures, this audit showed us that the election was largely safe and secure,” tweeted Republican state Sen. Robert Cowles, who co-chairs the Legislature’s Audit Committee, which assigned the audit bureau to conduct the review.

Wisconsin audit finds elections are 'safe and secure'

A highly anticipated nonpartisan audit of the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin did not identify any widespread fraud in the battleground state, which a key Republican legislative leader says shows that the state's elections are “safe and secure.”

apnews.com

The AP isn't lying, it is reporting the facts. Which is why you hate it.

They are illegal because they do not conform with Wisconsin election laws. That's all there is to it. All your whining doesn't change that.

 

[bripat9643]

How Wisconsin Became the GOP’s Laboratory for Dismantling Democracy

In his snug campaign office in suburban Milwaukee, located in a shopping plaza next to a dentist and an acupuncturist, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers scans the brightly colored maps that hang on the walls. They depict the tortuously shaped legislative districts drawn in a state now regarded as one of the most gerrymandered in the nation. “Who in their right minds could’ve made them up?” Evers asks.

The answer: Republicans in the state legislature. Evers saw firsthand the impact of GOP control of the redistricting process when he ran for governor in 2018. That year, Democrats swept all five statewide races and won 53 percent of votes cast for the state assembly, but the party retained just 36 percent of seats in the chamber. “It’s real simple,” Evers says, after eating a Five Guys burger for lunch. “All the statewide elected officials are Democrats… But then you go into the legislature and it’s almost two-thirds Republicans. There’s something wrong with that picture.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politic...s-gerrymandering-redistricting-evers-michels/

GOP looks for veto-proof majorities in Wisconsin Legislature

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are hoping Tim Michels will defeat Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in November, but even if Evers prevails they could still reshape the battleground state by winning enough seats in the Legislature to override vetoes.

If Republicans can flip five seats in the Assembly and one in the Senate they’ll have the two-thirds majority they need. They would be free to rework state politics at will, including the state budget and election administration.
https://apnews.com/article/2022-mid...ture-madison-7cf2dee8681e9ba610c0e5621864b7f7

Here are a few stats that would make the worst sort of anti-democratic authoritarian blush. WI is so gerrymandered that Dems would need to win 64% of the vote statewide just to get a slim majority in the legislature. Conversely, Repubs can win a majority with 44% of the vote. Meaning Repubs are on the verge of nullifying democracy in WI by controlling the legislature with super majorities not thanks to the popularity of their positions but rather based on cheating.

The tyranny of the minority being the national project Repubs have been working on for years. Given a head start by virtue of the structural advantages Repubs have in the Senate and the EC. No wonder Repubs flip out when Dems propose national legislation designed to thwart Repub's deceitful schemes to grab power.

Dims act as if Republicans invented Gerrymandering when the fact is they did it. Democrats were notorious for the practitioners of the method.

 

[Woodznutz]

They are illegal because they do not conform with Wisconsin election laws. That's all there is to it. All your whining doesn't change that.

Democrats play fast and loose with everything. Sloppy is their thing.

 

[Woodznutz]

Republicans want to dismantle demoncracy, not democracy. Dems have no clue how evil they are.

 

[scruffy]

No. Believing that anecdotal examples of fraud, which were carried out by voters on both sides, were sufficient to change the result of the election is what makes you an election denier.

SUFFICIENCY IS NOT THE ISSUE, shit for brains lying leftard.

 

[scruffy]

Exactly.

The right’s war on democracy continues.

Yakkety yak yak yak

Dumbshit, it's the Democommies running the gulag, not the righties.

What fucked up little assholes you progtards have become.

 

[scruffy]

Republicans want to dismantle demoncracy, not democracy. Dems have no clue how evil they are.

They got an issue big enough to cause a fucking riot, and instead of addressing the issue the dumbass shit for brains asswipes are trying to pretend it doesn't even exist.

Fuck these stupid morons, they're STUPID and DESTRUCTIVE.

 

[schmidlap]

How Wisconsin Became the GOP’s Laboratory for Dismantling Democracy

In his snug campaign office in suburban Milwaukee, located in a shopping plaza next to a dentist and an acupuncturist, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers scans the brightly colored maps that hang on the walls. They depict the tortuously shaped legislative districts drawn in a state now regarded as one of the most gerrymandered in the nation. “Who in their right minds could’ve made them up?” Evers asks.

The answer: Republicans in the state legislature. Evers saw firsthand the impact of GOP control of the redistricting process when he ran for governor in 2018. That year, Democrats swept all five statewide races and won 53 percent of votes cast for the state assembly, but the party retained just 36 percent of seats in the chamber. “It’s real simple,” Evers says, after eating a Five Guys burger for lunch. “All the statewide elected officials are Democrats… But then you go into the legislature and it’s almost two-thirds Republicans. There’s something wrong with that picture.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politic...s-gerrymandering-redistricting-evers-michels/

GOP looks for veto-proof majorities in Wisconsin Legislature

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are hoping Tim Michels will defeat Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in November, but even if Evers prevails they could still reshape the battleground state by winning enough seats in the Legislature to override vetoes.

If Republicans can flip five seats in the Assembly and one in the Senate they’ll have the two-thirds majority they need. They would be free to rework state politics at will, including the state budget and election administration.
https://apnews.com/article/2022-mid...ture-madison-7cf2dee8681e9ba610c0e5621864b7f7

Here are a few stats that would make the worst sort of anti-democratic authoritarian blush. WI is so gerrymandered that Dems would need to win 64% of the vote statewide just to get a slim majority in the legislature. Conversely, Repubs can win a majority with 44% of the vote. Meaning Repubs are on the verge of nullifying democracy in WI by controlling the legislature with super majorities not thanks to the popularity of their positions but rather based on cheating.

The tyranny of the minority being the national project Repubs have been working on for years. Given a head start by virtue of the structural advantages Repubs have in the Senate and the EC. No wonder Repubs flip out when Dems propose national legislation designed to thwart Repub's deceitful schemes to grab power.

Authoritarianism in Wisconsin was banished today.

Conservatives Despondent After Democrats' Wisconsin Victory: 'Very Bad Day'​

 

[SeaMajor7]

And then there's Maude.

 

[Woodznutz]

Ann Coulter is right. Republicans should lighten up on the abortion issue. Jails, cemeteries, and nuthouses are filled with people that were unwanted from birth. Better that they were never born in the first place.

 

[Woodznutz]

Authoritarianism in Wisconsin was banished today.

Conservatives Despondent After Democrats' Wisconsin Victory: 'Very Bad Day'​

It's actually good that 'pro-ta-say-wits' won. Now Wisconsin can enact a reasonable abortion law and we can move on to the really important stuff.

 

[Woodznutz]

They got an issue big enough to cause a fucking riot, and instead of addressing the issue the dumbass shit for brains asswipes are trying to pretend it doesn't even exist.

Fuck these stupid morons, they're STUPID and DESTRUCTIVE.

My (ex) wife wasn't the brightest bulb on the tree, but she knew how to avoid getting pregnant; don't have unprotected sex when you are fertile.

 

[schmidlap]

It's actually good that 'pro-ta-say-wits' won. Now Wisconsin can enact a reasonable abortion law and we can move on to the really important stuff.

The authoritarians are still hellbent upon politicians seizing control of wombs nationally, following the lead of El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Iraq.

 

[Woodznutz]

The authoritarians are still hellbent upon politicians seizing control of wombs nationally, following the lead of El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Iraq.

It's almost like they believe those kids would be thankful and grow up to be Republicans.

 

[schmidlap]

It's almost like they believe those kids would be thankful and grow up to be Republicans.

They're not dealing with kids. They are pretending that mindless, microscopic amalgams of cells are people in order to abrogate personal freedom in private matters.

"We's watchin' yer mail, too, Lady!"​

 

[schmidlap]

My (ex) wife wasn't the brightest bulb on the tree, but she knew how to avoid getting pregnant; don't have unprotected sex when you are fertile.

I assume that she knew enough not to relocate to El Salvador, Nicaragua, or Iraq where policians seize control of a woman's womb if she is impregnated.

The consequences of the election of the more progressive candidate is a victory for democracy in other ways. Under their gerrymandering, Republicans have been able to control 63 of the Wisconsin State Assembly's 99 seats, despite having received only 44% of the vote. That'll change to reflect public sentiment.