Voter purge surge, (In)Justice Kavanaugh, and more |
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Written by LegitAction Team |
Saturday, 13 October 2018 14:14 |
MADISON, WI - Looks like Republican secretaries of state are competing to see who can make it hardest to vote in 2018. Brian Kemp, who happens to also be the Republican candidate for governor in Georgia, is currently under fire (and lawsuit) for freezing more than 53,000 registration applications from (mostly black) voters. And Indiana’s Connie Lawson was just caught red-handed using the notoriously illegitimate Crosscheck tool to purge thousands of voters -- in violation of a court order.
The Fight For Legitimacy Marches On “Each and every Republican who votes for Kavanaugh, therefore, effectively announces that they care more about controlling the Supreme Court than they do about the legitimacy of the Court itself.” There’s only one thing to do after watching Trump and Republicans trample all over the Supreme Court’s legitimacy: vote. Don’t know how to register? Or the best way to vote? Here are the rules in all 50 states plus D.C. Read more >> More than 20 states have laws that enable private citizens to quietly challenge large numbers of voter registrations at once. And you better believe Republican vigilantes are taking advantage -- like Alan Vera, a local GOP committee chair who got his Texas county to suspend 1,700 voters without notice. Read more >> ***** LegitAction News is a semimonthly roundup of the biggest news affecting the four pillars of our democratic legitimacy: the right to vote, the popular vote, campaign finance reform, and the Supreme Court. |
Last Updated on Saturday, 13 October 2018 14:32 |
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