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Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
Fri May 31, 2019, 10:17 AM May 2019

Revealed: Memo Shows Trump Officials Trying to Rig Elections for Whites

Republicans want to ask about citizenship on the census. Now we know it is to undermine ‘one person, one vote.’

A secret trove of documents was revealed Thursday showing that the Trump administration added a citizenship question to the 2020 census as part of a right-wing plan to change how voting districts are drawn in the United States—a plan hatched to benefit “non-Hispanic whites.”

This is worse than anyone thought. This is white supremacy.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/census-citizenship-question-revealed-memo-shows-trump-officials-trying-to-rig-elections-for-whites?ref=scroll

gerrymandering - manipulating the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class.
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johnnyfins

(828 posts)
5. All we have heard for years is crying from the right about "illegals voting for Democrats"
Fri May 31, 2019, 01:04 PM
May 2019

Which NEVER happens. "Illegals" can't vote. Period. There is no evidence of it happening. Period.

Now we find out his B.S.? This is it. It's what the repugs are most afraid of, and it makes sense when you put it together with their whole agenda. The demographic is changing and they know it. Finally, proof that they will go to any length to cling to white power.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
7. Yeah when cases of voter fraud do come up
Fri May 31, 2019, 01:23 PM
May 2019

It’s almost always Republicans who get caught engaging in said fraud.

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
4. These crooks spend all their waking hours thinking of ways to screw up people
Fri May 31, 2019, 12:50 PM
May 2019

No wonder they don't legislate anything that will help the country and its people, its all to try to screw people who do not look like them and don't have money, because those white people who support these crooks but are penniless do not understand that the crooks don't care for them either, they will go down with those they hate too.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
6. Electoral fraud and voter suppression should be capital crimes
Fri May 31, 2019, 01:22 PM
May 2019

They should be listed as in the constitution as crimes. And although I’m generally against the death penalty these would be exceptions. They are violent crimes which can cause so much death and destruction and furthermore strike at the very heart of a democracy.

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