Voting rights bills and lawsuits megathread (Updated: April 27th 2020)

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Big news out of NYC lately is that the IDC is finished....hopefully NY will this expand voting laws

[junior chįmp]

Big news out of NYC lately is that the IDC is finished....hopefully NY will this expand voting laws

Care to expound on this, possibly with sources?

Certainly....last election I was working the polls. Saw many people  with an interest in junking the IDC. Will make a post later!

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IDC being pressured by Senate Dem leader to join the Dem party. So that's Cuomo, leaders of both houses, and the DNC machine itself:

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I don't understand, is that even newsworthy? Has the IDC actually shown any willingness to stop with its shenanigans?

Also this isn't particularly germane to this thread. You could start a thread for this in the Gubernatorial/Statewide elections board if you want.

Starting in 2020, newly drawn state Senate maps will be created by a semi-independent commission with public hearings. The IDC is basically being told to join the Democrats if you want to survive since the NY Constitution has ban amended to ban partisan gerrymandering.

Basically, the State Senate is predicted to flip heavily blue in 2018 now. One less state with gerrymandering

Actually your right: This should be in the state legislature thread. Forgot it existed

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White House wants to argue that AVR us unconstitutional:

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Maryland governor to push redistricting reform bill again


ANNAPOLIS, MD.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Wednesday that he will try again for the fourth consecutive year to make congressional redistricting a nonpartisan process.

Hogan, a Republican, said he will submit legislation in the next session to create an independent commission to draw congressional and state legislative districts.

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PA gerrymandering verdict due out by January 2018....just in time for the-midterms.

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PA gerrymandering verdict due out by January 2018....just in time for the-midterms.

One would think that the upcoming SCOTUS decision would circumscribe what the PA state Supreme Court does, or if the PA court rules first, perhaps override some of it.

I don't think we get a ruling on Gill Vs Whitford till June of 2018

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BIG, if true

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BIG, if true

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Are there any updates on what the IDC is doing? Because these kinds of reforms would take every single non-Republican vote in the state Senate to pass. I really hope he can ram it through but I'm not too confident right now.

The real reason Cuomo proposed this is because NYC just passed these reforms and Cuomo absolutely hates De Blasio and wants to "up" him in any way.

Cuomo may not be motivated by genuine reasons but he never passes up a chance to stick it to de Blasio in a petty competitive way lol

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Very intredasting map of all the places Dems could pass AVR via ballot initiative:



It's a shame the Dems are so terrible at strategy that they aren't pouring money into this

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6. ID/WY/UT/SD/MO/OK/AR/MS/NE Don't really even need it. Sure, the left could try to get it on an initiative, but what rewards would they get for their efforts? These states are not competitive, except possibly Missouri (mostly downballot). I will concede that NE-02 is competitive, but who knows what it looks like in 2022 and beyond.

I think MS passing a felony disenfranchisement and AVR bill would substantially boost black turnout to the point it could become a semi-swing state. OK used to be a blue state downballot going back a couple of years so AVR could be useful for state legislature races.

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Theoretically, Florida could do another ballot initiative to drop the 60% requirement back down to 50%

On a side note....the FL felony disenfranchisement ballot initiative still needs 159,608 signatures with 38 days to go. Only a week ago it needed 225k so that bill is well on it's way to making it on the ballot. I remember reading somewhere that if only 30% of all the felons in Florida turnout regularly after getting their voting rights back that that Florida will cease to be a swing state if they vote the way felons vote on the national level. (7 in 10 felons are registered Democrats)

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FantasySCOTUS, which has a pretty good track record on predicting SCOTUS cases, predicts that gerrymandering will be ruled unconstitutional by a 5 to 4 decision in Gil vs. Whitford

https://fantasyscotus.lexpredict.com/case/list/

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I’m still surprised GA has AVR

I'm more surprised that Mississippi allows ballot initiatives

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Some fantastic New voting rights legislation introduced in the VA HoD and Senate for the new term:

HJ5 (“The amendment prohibits electoral districts being drawn for the purpose of favoring or disfavoring any political party, incumbent legislator or member of Congress, or other individual or entity.”)

HJ21 (” Establishes the seven-member Virginia Redistricting Commission (the Commission) to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census.”)

HB74 (“Allows any registered voter to vote early in any election in which he is qualified to vote without providing a reason or making prior application for an absentee ballot.”)

HB191 (“Adds to the list of acceptable forms of voter identification a valid student photo identification card issued by any institution of higher education located in any other state or territory of the United States”)

SB65 (“Presidential candidates; federal tax returns and state income tax returns required for ballot access.”)

SB136 (“Absentee voting; no-excuse in-person available 21 days prior to election.”)

HB57 (“Absentee voting; no excuse.”)

SJ9 (“Establishes that the sole qualifications to vote in the Commonwealth are United States citizenship, being at least 18 years of age, residency in the Commonwealth, and registration to vote in accordance with requirements set out in the Constitution of Virginia…The bill removes from current constitutional qualifications to vote not having been convicted of a felony and not having been adjudicated to be mentally incompetent.”)

HB99 (“Enters Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote”);

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Ohio anti gerrymandering ballot initiative will most likely collect enough signatures to be on the ballot in 2018:

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This OH initiative applies to Congressional districts, I presume? I know there was movement around LDs some time ago

They already passed a law for the state legislature districts....this one is for the Federal Congressional districts

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Oklahoma Atlasians should sign this petition

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Power To The People!

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Commonwealth Court Says Pa’s Congressional Lines Do Not Violate State Constitution

Cucked yet again!

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Victory for America!

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Krazen was probably having a good day at work at McDonalds till he read the news and choked

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NY Dems introduced their voting rights expansion bill today

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Some of the reforms include:

-Making voter suppression and intimidation a crime punishable with a misdemeanor
-Automatic voter registration
-Pre-register 16 & 17 yr olds
-Expansion of absentee voting abilities
-Allowing casting of ballot by mail
-Early voting
-Unification of state and federal party primaries, which are currently split between June and September