President Trump’s voting commission asked every state and the District for detailed voter registration data, but in Texas’s case it took an additional step: It asked to see Texas records that identify all voters with Hispanic surnames, newly released documents show.
In buying nearly 50 million records from the state with the nation’s second largest Hispanic population, a researcher for the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity checked a box on two Texas public voter data request forms explicitly asking for the “Hispanic surname flag notation,” to be included in information sent to the voting commission, according to copies of the signed and notarized state forms.
White House and Texas officials said the Texas voter data was never delivered because a lawsuit brought by Texas voting rights advocates after the request last year temporarily stopped any data handoff.
Gee, it's almost as if this whole commission was created simply to prove that Donald Trump lost the popular vote because of illegal immigrants who voted against him.
But that can't be right, can it?
You bet your ass it can.
Maybe it's me, but why is "detailed" voter registration data allowed to be purchased? My vote/political leanings is very personal to me and, as far as I'm concerned, none of their damned business.
ReplyDeleteSaw about the quake, Gryph, hope you're all right.
ReplyDeleteWas it Trump who declared illegals were bused in to vote? He says so many outrageous lies and flubs that just keep coming I lose track.
ReplyDeleteSo they wanted to identify voters,with hispanic surnames in Texas. Wonder if they tried the same thing in any other states, say California, Arizona, New Mexico or Florida? Maybe not california because jerry Brown would have flipped them off, but arizona and Florida are run by republicans. I think the focus on texas is showing their fear of it turning purple.
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DeleteDef:
1. what you say when you know something big and bad is about to happen, a major change
2. a sudden change in the regular flow of events
3. a sudden alteration of the harmony around
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#shit is going down
#flipping a bitch
#alteration#change
#turning chickens
I’m sure they tried it in every state. After all, you can’t identify a black voter by their surname.
DeleteRepublicans there are trying to purge 128 Democratic candidates from the ballot, including multiple sitting state legislators, based on a frivolous procedural technicality. The county is one of the bluest parts of the state, but it typically experiences terrible voter turnout, and the GOP may be trying to ensure it stays that way.
ReplyDeleteWhat is happening in Texas is a microcosm of the nationwide Republican push to prevent competitive elections.
https://shareblue.com/panicked-gop-resorts-to-desperate-measures-to-prevent-blue-wave-in-texas/
'You bet your' SWEET BIPPY>'by 1968, "buttocks, ass,"
ReplyDeleteU.S. slang, the kind of thing that once sounded naughty on
"Laugh-In" (and briefly popularized by that program).
As it often was used with you bet your ...
it may be nonsense chosen for alliteration, but there may be some whiff of BIPEDAL in it."
OT?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/satanic-temple-says-abortion-laws-violate-rights/
"Women seeking abortions in Missouri must be offered an ultrasound to hear the fetal heartbeat, receive informed consent booklets that claim human life begins at conception, and wait 72 hours in order to receive an abortion, according to the statute. The Satanic Temple argues that these rules infringe on the religious freedom of people who do not hold this Christian view of conception.
“The Satanic Temple's position is that the state-mandated informed consent materials, which proclaim ‘life begins at conception’ and that ‘abortion will terminate the life of a separate, unique, living human being,’ are debatable points of religious opinion—opinions that we do not agree with,” Lucien Greaves, a spokesman for the Satanic Temple, told Newsweek.
“We filed the lawsuit in defense of a member of the Satanic Temple who sought an abortion and was told she needed to wait three days for the procedure, during which time she was expected to consider the state's opinion upon fetal personhood. The state's opinion upon the matter is irrelevant to us, and the imposition of their religious opinion, especially as a means to delay a decision that was informed by religious principles, is a clear violation of our free exercise,”
'Defense argued that READing the required BOOKlet does not violate Doe’s religious rights."
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/satanic-temple-says-abortion-laws-violate-rights/
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ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnn.com/2018/01/23/us/louisiana-school-prayer-lawsuit/index.html
NOT OT - quite timely in the Trump reign of error. Thank you for the link.
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http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-disney-bonuses-education-20180123-story.html
ReplyDelete'Disney to give $1,000 bonuses to 125,000 employees and create a higher education program'