Rachel's report on voter supression at Prarie View A&M University has me

[mfcorey1]

pissed. Someone please post the video how for years a county in Texas has deliberately kept college students from voting using some of the most hateful tactics they can. It is unreal.

[bullwinkle428]

1. Jim Crow never completely died in a number of places.

[manor321]

2. And it is getting worse

It is getting worse, not better. The Supreme Court started hacking away at the VRA.

And now they have total control for a generation.

This is why we told people to vote Democratic in 2016. As in Democratic, not Green.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Do remember when the Rethugs tried this same crap

in Eau Claire County Wisconsin in 1960. State Law was eighteen and over. Well that deal left the Rethugs looking damn ugly for quite some time..

[Athenapallas]

4. He was arrested for working for a political candidate of a certain party.

This is probably 1 of the scariest things to hear. This is some Putin or Xi does.

[mnhtnbb]

5. I was watching, too.

Chilling story of arresting the field director of the Democratic Congressional candidate for taking a photo of delivering a letter demanding the County not to make it more difficult for the students at the 82% African American university to vote after he was asked what party the candidate represented.

Chilling.

[jberryhill]

6. Remember this in the next "lazy young people" thread

DUers tend to be outstandingly ignorant of the various structural barriers to young people voting.

Simple things like proving residency when one is sharing an apartment with friends, but not actually on the lease or utility bills, are beyond the capability of cranky old farts to comprehend.

[Roland99]

7. Related story of arrest of Dem worker...

Campaign Worker Arrested After IDing His Candidate As Democrat
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/campaign-worker-arrested-after-iding-his-candidate-as-democrat

As Siegel explained to me, Siegel’s campaign wrote a letter proposing a solution to the problem and sent a campaign staffer, Jacob Aronowitz, to deliver it to the County Courthouse in Waller County. In Texas, the County Judge (in this case Waller County Judge Carbett “Trey” J. Duhon III) is actually the county executive, not a judge as we usually use the term. In any case, Aronowitz presented the letter to a member of the County Clerk’s staff and then took a picture of himself submitting the letter as a sort of proof of service. It’s not clear whether this was County Clerk Debbie Hollan or another member of the clerk’s office. Whoever it was got upset that he’d taken a picture and called over a bailiff – she apparently thought her privacy had been violated by taking the photograph.

By this time, Aronowitz is walking out of the courthouse with his mission accomplished when he’s stopped by a county sheriff’s deputy who asks who he is and what he’s doing. Soon enough Aronowitz is surrounded by a court bailiff, a sheriff’s deputy and a city police officer. Aronowitz asks whether he is free to go or whether he’s under arrest. He also calls the candidate, Mike Siegel, who’s also a civil rights attorney. So Siegel is listening to the conversation and advising Aronowitz what to do as he’s being questioned and not allowed to leave.

Siegel didn’t say this to me in so many words. But from his description of the back and forth, it seems like that the law enforcement officers weren’t happy with Aronowitz but weren’t clear what exactly they could charge him with or if they could arrest him. After Aronowitz explained what he was at the courthouse to do and then identified himself, one of the officers asked Aronowitz which party his candidate was with.

Aronowitz told them Siegel was a Democrat. A couple minutes later the phone went dead and Aronowitz was placed under arrest for what he was told was “48 hour investigative detention.”

[FakeNoose]

8. The way I understand it, this is a recent change in voter registration trends

When most of us baby boomers were in college (40+ years ago) college students were expected to register and vote in their home district. A student's college address was not a permanent residence, and in most cases your college address didn't even show on your student ID.

When voters are required to show your ID, it needs to include your permanent residence which would be your parents' address if you're an underage student. So for that reason college towns didn't have a lot of out of state students registered to vote because the kids were voting at home.

Nowadays, more students use their college address as their permanent address for identification purposes. That carries over into drivers license and voter registration records, but not every college town has accepted or encouraged this. It sounds like some are even discouraging it, but of course that would be illegal.

[tulipsandroses]

9. I was floored watching this

Just stunned. What year are we living in again?

Yeah, when they go low
Kick em!

Civility my ass. These bastards are determined to win at all costs. They don't care to play by rules. Do not talk to me about being civil.

[Gothmog]

10. Rachel did not mentioned that Sandra Bland died or was killed in Waller County

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. You are right ! Hell hole. Sandra's story saddest ever. Nt

[TexasTowelie]

11. I live in the area so I'm familiar with their tactics.

I'll have to let the neighbor next door know since she went to Prairie View A&M.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

12. KR NT

[elmac]

13. many red states, including MI, have supression laws keeping college students from voting.nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. And you wonder why apathy breeds early nt

[flying_wahini]

14. Same place the redneck cop jailed Sandra Bland. Waller County, Tx

[Gothmog]

15. For this thread

[certainot]

18. anyone can go on the offensive there, from anywhere, along with A&M students

here are the number of limbaugh stations endorsed by 5 texas universities:

Texas A&M 9, Texas Tech 4, Texas 1, Texas Christian 1, Baylor 1

that's 9 limbaugh stations that love that they can broadcast A&M games to help them attract advertisers and would hate for A&M students and communities to make a stink about it because the stations would start losing advertisers

all those stations that broadcast limbaugh are contributors to this racist crap and voter suppression - that's what the immigration issue is really about

aside from the A&M community making that an issue and really pissing off the cons, anyone in the country can also record those shows, get them transcribed fast and easy and cheaply, list the advertisers and their web sites, and thank them for the racism and trumpism and cheating.

republicans depend heavily on those stations and those stations need national advertisers.

[dawg day]

19. I was remembering I'd heard that University name before

It was where Sandra Bland was going to work when she was stopped and arrested by that crazed cop.

[Gothmog]

20. Update

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