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Or be named AG of the USA. Practicing those gestapo tactics.Where’s the outrage? There is none. Guess it’s okay? Because it’s the “other.” Sure. Carry on.
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Paxton’s election fraud charges upend lives but result in few convictions By Arelis R. Hernández and Molly Hennessy-Fiske September 02, 2024 at 5:00 ET SAN ANTONIO — Leticia Sanchez was a church deaconess, teacher’s aide and an activist in her majority-Latino community helping register people to vote before she was arrested in 2018 for the first time in her life. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) accused her and three other Hispanic women of forming an “organized voter fraud ring” that targeted elderly voters by applying for mail-in ballots they had not requested. Five years later, the case was dismissed after the state’s highest criminal court ruled Paxton didn’t have the authority to prosecute Sanchez. But even with her record cleared, the cost of being branded a felon was enormous. “It’s been difficult to move forward,” Sanchez, 63, said in her first interview since the arrest. “We didn’t do anything wrong. We were just helping people.” The church leader’s case fits a pattern that has emerged in Texas under Paxton: Aggressive prosecutions for alleged election fraud crimes that upend lives but result in few cases that go to trial and end in a conviction. The Republican attorney general and his supporters believe election fraud is rampant, and point to the large number of charges filed as proof. Yet many of those charged have stories like Sanchez’s. Civil rights groups say the charges tend to target Black or Latino voters and volunteers, many of whom are Democrats. The result has been a chilling effect on volunteers and community groups that for decades have worked to increase turnout in a state with one of the nation’s lowest voter participation rates. Critics say the charges are part of a wider effort by predominantly White, Republican state lawmakers to suppress votes in some of the fastest-growing parts of the majority-minority state: urban and suburban communities that lean Democrat. “The goal isn’t to get a conviction,” said Chad Dunn, legal director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project, who has defended Texan clients against election-fraud claims and won a 2021 case that curbed the attorney general’s prosecutorial power. “It’s to set up a climate of fear around voting. He uses these witch hunts to gain attention and money.” Paxton’s work in combating alleged voter fraud is back in focus after a recent spate of state raids on the homes of South Texas “abuelitas,” or older women known for their community work. One of the nation’s largest Latino civil rights organizations has called on the Justice Department to investigate. The department confirmed they are aware of the matter but declined to comment further. Critics, both Democrats and Republicans, said they have become accustomed to the election season rollout: After a contested race result, the attorney general’s election police announce an investigation. Indictments and raids are timed to the run-up to early voting in the next election. And new, inexperienced voters and volunteers are scared off.
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Interesting!
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Feeling screwed lately. Can anyone here comprehend how insane this is?
"But
in 2024 there is a new wrinkle. The Constitution’s framers agreed on a
census every ten years so that representation in Congress could be
reapportioned according to demographic changes. As usual, the 2020
census shifted representation, and so the pathway to 270 electoral votes
shifted slightly. Those shifts mean that it is possible the election
will come down to one electoral vote. Awarding Trump the one electoral
vote Nebraska is expected to deliver to Harris could be enough to keep
her from becoming president.
Rather
than trying to win a majority of voters, just 49 days before the
presidential election, Trump supporters—including Senator Graham—are
making a desperate effort to use the Electoral College to keep Harris
from reaching the requisite 270 electoral votes to win. It is unusual
for a senator from one state to interfere in the election processes in
another state, but Graham similarly pressured officials in Georgia to
swing the vote there toward Trump in 2020."
-Heather Cox Richardson, 9/20/24
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So let me get this straight, there was voter fraud, but the local republican prosecutor declined to charge so the dem state AG stepped in and filed charges? Huh, I thought it was Dems who weren't interested in voter fraud. Weird. I wonder what party the fraudsters were voting for...
So let me get this straight, there was voter fraud, but the local republican prosecutor declined to charge so the dem state AG stepped in and filed charges? Huh, I thought it was Dems who weren't interested in voter fraud. Weird. I wonder what party the fraudsters were voting for...
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You have to imagine that there are a considerable number of judges at the federal, circuit and appellate levels that are privately and professionally, behind closed doors and in their forums, disgusted by the weaponization of the courts and the behaviour of Thomas and Alito. However, their oaths require them to remain non-partisan and all they can do is hope the citizenry wake the fuck up. There’ll be some interesting reads in a decade or so, if books remain a thing.
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seriously, every accusation is a projection.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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By Arelis R. Hernández and Molly Hennessy-Fiske
September 02, 2024 at 5:00 ET
SAN ANTONIO — Leticia Sanchez was a church deaconess, teacher’s aide and an activist in her majority-Latino community helping register people to vote before she was arrested in 2018 for the first time in her life.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) accused her and three other Hispanic women of forming an “organized voter fraud ring” that targeted elderly voters by applying for mail-in ballots they had not requested.
Five years later, the case was dismissed after the state’s highest criminal court ruled Paxton didn’t have the authority to prosecute Sanchez. But even with her record cleared, the cost of being branded a felon was enormous.
“It’s been difficult to move forward,” Sanchez, 63, said in her first interview since the arrest. “We didn’t do anything wrong. We were just helping people.”
The church leader’s case fits a pattern that has emerged in Texas under Paxton: Aggressive prosecutions for alleged election fraud crimes that upend lives but result in few cases that go to trial and end in a conviction. The Republican attorney general and his supporters believe election fraud is rampant, and point to the large number of charges filed as proof. Yet many of those charged have stories like Sanchez’s.
Civil rights groups say the charges tend to target Black or Latino voters and volunteers, many of whom are Democrats. The result has been a chilling effect on volunteers and community groups that for decades have worked to increase turnout in a state with one of the nation’s lowest voter participation rates. Critics say the charges are part of a wider effort by predominantly White, Republican state lawmakers to suppress votes in some of the fastest-growing parts of the majority-minority state: urban and suburban communities that lean Democrat.
“The goal isn’t to get a conviction,” said Chad Dunn, legal director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project, who has defended Texan clients against election-fraud claims and won a 2021 case that curbed the attorney general’s prosecutorial power. “It’s to set up a climate of fear around voting. He uses these witch hunts to gain attention and money.”
Paxton’s work in combating alleged voter fraud is back in focus after a recent spate of state raids on the homes of South Texas “abuelitas,” or older women known for their community work. One of the nation’s largest Latino civil rights organizations has called on the Justice Department to investigate. The department confirmed they are aware of the matter but declined to comment further.
Critics, both Democrats and Republicans, said they have become accustomed to the election season rollout: After a contested race result, the attorney general’s election police announce an investigation. Indictments and raids are timed to the run-up to early voting in the next election. And new, inexperienced voters and volunteers are scared off.
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-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
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Rather than trying to win a majority of voters, just 49 days before the presidential election, Trump supporters—including Senator Graham—are making a desperate effort to use the Electoral College to keep Harris from reaching the requisite 270 electoral votes to win. It is unusual for a senator from one state to interfere in the election processes in another state, but Graham similarly pressured officials in Georgia to swing the vote there toward Trump in 2020."
-Heather Cox Richardson, 9/20/24
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
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https://apnews.com/article/michigan-election-fraud-charges-d274ed39e3f298f3e75a44dfb38be4c4
Wow. My niece and her husband live a little further north of there. I also seem to recall one particular candidate suggesting folks do that very thing
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