26 Mar 2021 ~~ By Christopher Bedord
As the most powerful people in the country are insisting the truth is a lie and their lies are the truth, many reporters are not absent, they're complicit.
thefederalist.com
In short, it’s a story about Democrats aiming to seize massive power over how elections are run. Of course, you wouldn’t get any of that information from The New York Times headline or copy. In fact, funny enough, the second story on The New York Times’ politics page Thursday morning was the one headlined, “Republicans Aim To Seize More Power Over How Elections Are Run.”
Over the years, I've read quite a bit about elections, redistricting, and gerrymandering. It's pretty interesting stuff. Suffice it to say that the two major political parties have gotten extremely good at analyzing voters, their interests, and their locations by more than just their zip codes. They have voter data that is both general and precise. They can analyze voters' shopping habits, tv viewing habits, magazine subscription preferences, and even what kind of car you drive to determine the likelihood of how any person is likely to vote, beyond just your voting history.
One of the older tricks is to redistrict in such a way as to place a lot of registered Democrats all in one district which will always put a Democrat in office while making other Congressional districts closer in terms of registered voters but with a decided advantage toward Republicans. I recall reading about this happening in WI a few years ago. While Democratic candidates for the US Congress and State Senate and State Assembly received something like 55% of all votes statewide, however Democrats statewide only won about 47% of the offices. Very often these districts are drawn up in such a way as to make it glaringly obvious that the intention is to put a thumb on the scale even before the first vote is cast.
However, Republicans are getting increasingly desperate. You see, the GOP is getting increasingly White, rural, and older. even as the population is increasingly culturally and racially diverse, urban, and younger.
Now, ask any Republican what he wants on election day, and he (like any politician) would say, "VOTE FOR ME!" But if a person is not inclined to vote for Mr. GOP, he would be happy if you just sat out the election due to apathy or any other reason. But the last thing in the world he would want is to make it easy for any person to vote if that person is not likely to vote for him. The more road blocks that are thrown up for potential voters who are not inclined to vote for him, the more likely he will win. One of the roadblocks I remember came from Texas, I believe, when they instituted an ID requirement in order to vote. They would accept a gun registration card but not a student ID card for the obvious reason that gun owners are far more likely to vote for the GOP and students are more likely to vote Democrat.
There's more!
