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Sanders is closing the gap. he will not win, but he is getting closer
Operation Chaos looks like a complete bust
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Sanders is closing the gap. he will not win, but he is getting closer
Bruce_T_Laney
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I don't want either one of them...
Sorry, but I prefer Bloomberg instead but alas it will be Trump who will win while I vote third party again...
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Trump will most likely win unless something crazy happens to the economy between now and then.
The Dems need to take back the Senate, that is a bigger priority
Bruce_T_Laney
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Well China is trying to help the Democrats with Coronavirus and markets tanking and if Trump closes either border or both borders then expect the economy not just crash but die!
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True, closing the border would be a death kneel for an economy barely hanging on as it is.
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I hate to tell you Percy but hell has to freeze over for me to run as a Democrat or Republican...
I was thinking to run on a new political party called the PD Party and have a Huge PD as the Party Mascot!
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With enough money, you could slide into a VP slot...like Bloomberg...
edthecynic
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No it was Tramp copying Russia Limpboy's 2008 tactic of having Republiscum vote for in the Dem primaries. The SC GOP tried to help by closing many poling places in minority areas to suppress the vote for Biden. But even with the GOP voting for Sanders and suppressing the minority vote, Biden still won big.
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This is complete and utter horse shit. If you had spent even 5 minutes independently looking into this, rather than simply parroting the agit-prop you're being fed, you'd know that.
First, the "South Carolina GOP" did not close any polling precints, nor could they. South Carolina law delegates decision making authority for polling locations and consolidations to each county, by its "county board of voter registration and elections" (elected by the citizens of each county). See SC Code of Laws, Title 7.
Second, the reason the number of polling locations was consolidated is because the ones that are located in schools obviously cannot be used for voting during the school year. And all of the polling locations that were "closed" are the ones located in schools.
Belangia told the Prospect that the change was made because the 52 original locations were in schools, and they couldn’t host voters while the school year was in session.
Furthermore, the "closed" polling places have been closed for several months, and this is the 3rd election this year (including state and local) for which the consolidated precinct locations have been in place.
The Greenville County Democratic Party chair told the Progressive Network that the county kept the high number of relocated stations in place for the primary, so they wouldn’t confuse people who adjusted to the changes for the first two elections this year.
Consolidating polling stations is a regular occurrence in South Carolina, and Greenville has already planned to do it for the first four elections of this year. “We did that for January 7th, for January 21st, we did it for tomorrow’s election on the 29th and for a sheriff’s election on March 10,” County Executive Conway Belangia told the Prospect. “All of those [elections] being countywide.”
Finally, even setting all of that aside, there is no way anyone can argue with a straight face that votes are being suppressed when every household in America has at least one cell phone, and there are 50 websites that will tell you exactly where to go if you want to vote. The suggestion that this is "suppressing the minority vote" is one of the most demeaning narratives the left peddles, as if black people are too stupid to use the internet and too lazy/disinterested to use a different location. Here are the first 4 results from my quick Google search for "where do I vote in South Carolina"Consolidating polling stations is a regular occurrence in South Carolina, and Greenville has already planned to do it for the first four elections of this year. “We did that for January 7th, for January 21st, we did it for tomorrow’s election on the 29th and for a sheriff’s election on March 10,” County Executive Conway Belangia told the Prospect. “All of those [elections] being countywide.”
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That is of course, pure GOP bullshit! They have been voting in the schools before during the school year, presidential elections are in November which is clearly during the school year. The sole purpose of the GOP controlled legislature closing voting places is and has aways been voter suppression.
The sudden changes can be undertaken because changes to the election system no longer have to be pre-approved by the U.S. Department of Justice. In the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Section 5 of the legislation prevented states with histories of voter suppression and intimidation from making any logistical changes with elections before DOJ could review them for possible discrimination or unnecessary impediment.
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down the “pre-clearance” requirement, saying it was no longer necessary, because the discrimination that used to occur in voting laws no longer occurred. Organizers and activists in South Carolina say otherwise.
“Voters in South Carolina still, even as of this very moment, are faced with voter suppression and disenfranchisement,” said Dr. Brenda C. Williams, CEO of the non-profit The Family Unit in Sumter, South Carolina. “You might ask how is that in the year 2020? How is that after the Voting Rights Act of 1965? How is that after Shelby County v. Holder’s Supreme Court decision that said that racism is over, voter suppression is over, voter disenfranchisement is over?” Williams mused.
Consolidated polling stations can cause long lines and multiply the effect of any election-related hiccups, such as technology problems or short staffing. Belangia said he hasn’t made any staffing increases at the polls, despite the heightened attention on South Carolina’s primary.
And as you and the GOP well know. many poor minorities do not have internet access in their homes!
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I early voted for Sleepy Joe
thats my Operation Chaos
which is try to send the democrats into a brokered convention where Crazy Bernie has more delegates but someone else gets the nomination
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South Carolina is an outlier. Bernie will kick ass in California, Oregon, Utah, Washington and all those States out west.
Americans wants to move as far from the right-wing as possible
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