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Adam T
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« on: May 14, 2017, 02:42:45 PM »
« edited: May 14, 2017, 03:09:26 PM by Adam T »

An analysis of 2016 Republican vote suppression.  

I don't know if Hillary Clinton actually should have won the election, but at the very least there is no question that (sometimes legal) Republican cheating cost her Wisconsin.

https://twitter.com/Greg_Palast/status/862089318130630656

and
http://www.thelondoneconomic.com/tle-pick/donald-trump-was-right-the-election-was-rigged-in-his-favour/15/11/

I suspect most of the Republicans here will either babble on about the nonsense of 'illegal voting' or simply won't care as long as their side is the beneficiary.  It is with such attitudes that democracy is lost.

Some may dismiss Greg Palast as a 'conspiracy theorist' but virtually every claim of his later proved to be correct.  For example, he was one of the first (if not the first) to report on the illegal activities of Katherine Harris on removing about 10,000 mostly black people from the voter rolls in Florida for the 2000 election that cheated the proper winner, Al Gore, from becoming President.

Personally I think it's debatable that a nation that even had the voter rolls not been purged in a partisan manner that would likely still have come close to electing an obvious con artist and lunatic like Donald Trump is responsible enough for democracy, but at the very least it would be good if the U.S had a benign dictator and not a Trump.
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Adam T
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2017, 03:57:44 PM »

There needs to be a Constitutional Amendment that federalizes all election procedures and puts a genuinely independent commission in charge.
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