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Repubs Want The OTW Vote, But Don’t Want The OTWs To Vote

Posted by Michelle Moquin on October 23rd, 2014

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Wha’at??

Good morning!

Translation: “We’re trying to suppress all OTWs from voting but if somehow in all of our efforts to prevent you from voting, you are able to vote, then vote republican.”

Sickos. 

I realize that lately I have been posting a lot about voting. Well, just to let you know, I am going to continue to post a lot about voting. The midterms are less than 2 weeks away, and afterwards, you won’t hear a peep from me about voting. Well…that is unless you don’t get to the polls and we don’t accomplish our goals. And then you’re gonna hear me bitchin’. But hey, I’m not going to go there. I have faith that we can do this.

Paula: Speaking of wooing women and OTWs, here’s an excellent write that I found:

From New York Magazine:

Republicans Trying to Woo, or at Least Suppress, Minority Vote

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Photo: Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images

This weekend, the Supreme Court, by its customary 5-4 partisan split, issued an emergency ruling upholding Republican-authored voter-identification laws in Texas. The Texas law, like other legislation resembling it elsewhere, imposes disproportionate burdens on poor and nonwhite voters — or, as the Republicans hope, non-voters.

Meanwhile, in what feels like unrelated news, Republicans continue to rack their brains for ideas to increase their share of the minority vote. Whatever could they do to convince these nonwhite Americans that the Grand Old Party has their best interests at heart? Rand Paul and Chris Christie, reports the Daily Beast, recently appeared at a Republican confab on Fifth Avenue, where they jostled to position themselves as the Party’s true hope for diversification. Earlier this spring, Paul tentatively questioned his party’s obsession with rooting out almost entirely imaginary voter fraud, but almost immediately retracted his heresy. (“I agree, there’s nothing wrong with [voter I.D. laws],” he told Sean Hannity. “To see Eric Holder, you’ve got to show your drivers license to get in the building. So I don’t really object to having some rules for how we vote.”) Christie has opposed measures to make voting easier, like same-day registration and early voting. They have a two-track approach to the minority vote: make it as hard as possible for them to vote, while simultaneously persuading those who do vote to vote for them.

The Republican Party’s strategy of making voting as difficult as possible is borne out of the correct observation that impediments to voting disproportionately ward off Democratic-leaning constituencies. It is true that anybody is legally entitled to obtain the identification needed to comply with Republican-mandated voting requirements. But poor voters are much less likely to have such identification in the first place, and voting restrictions create additional bureaucratic hassles that they are the least equipped to handle. A recent report by Richard Sobel, of Harvard’s Institute for Race & Justice, tallied the cost of obtaining the required voter identification — the costs include the direct fee in obtaining identification, plus transportation, plus time. The costs usually range from $75 to $175, an exorbitant expense for a low-income person in order to do an activity that carries no direct personal benefit.

The report aptly presents voting restrictions as a modern form of the poll tax, which was outlawed in 1964. Indeed, the costs of contemporary voter I.D. requirements, even in inflation-adjusted terms, is many times the level of the poll taxes that existed before they were outlawed in 1964.

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Photo: Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images

Republican efforts to restrict early voting have the same effect. Low-income workers have less flexibility in their jobs and less access to convenient transportation and child care. Extended weekend and evening voting hours ease that burden — which, like voting-identification laws, functions just like a poll tax. A boss or a manager or a married person or a retiree can more easily rearrange his or her schedule to make it to a polling station on a given Tuesday in November. A wage worker or a single parent might have a harder time.

Republicans tend to present voter-identification laws as a necessary deterrent to in-person voter impersonation, a virtually nonexistent crime. Whether Republicans genuinely fear vote fraud, or have used it as a cynical pretext, is an irrelevant question. Humans have a remarkable capacity to develop moral justifications for our perceived self-interest.

But the Republican crusade to limit early voting places conservatives in an awkward position. The conservative movement has invested enormous energy into the task of convincing their adherents that in-person fraud is pervasive, a feat they have accomplished through relentless fulmination on the subject, and sometimes by committing actual voter fraud. This massive propaganda campaign has supplied conservatives with ample reasons to justify to their satisfaction with the Party’s crusade for purported anti-fraud laws, like voter-identification requirements. It has left a relative dearth of justifications for restricting early voting, which matters just as much. Into this chasm steps National Review’s John Fund, a leading agitator for Republican vote-suppression policies, who has a column arguing against early voting as well. Fund’s column frets that early voting has made us “redefine ourselves as a nation of convenience voters and abandon one of the only remaining occasions on which Americans come together as a nation to perform a collective civic duty.”

Fund offers several reasons why more convenient early and weekend voting presents a danger to the Republic (as opposed to the Republican Party, whose partisan interest he does not mention).

1. The strongest argument Fund musters is to warn that letting people cast a vote early would prevent them from being influenced by late-breaking campaign developments, like news of George W. Bush’s 1976 DUI arrest. The counterpoint is that undecided voters who need every precious day of campaign news to make up their mind, after months and months of campaigning, can always choose to wait until the last moment before casting their vote, rather than being forced to do so by being given just one day.

There is actually a perfect solution that would address Fund’s professions of deep social commitment to a single national voting day while also addressing concerns about the inconvenience. You’d simply have to make Election Day a national holiday. Sadly, Fund — who does not mention this idea in his most recent article — has previously dismissed it on the grounds that creating a holiday on a Tuesday would lead to people skipping work on the preceding Monday. (It “might do little more than create a de facto Saturday to Tuesday four-day weekend,” he wrote, in 2005.) So that’s out, too.

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Photo: Win McNamee/2013 Getty Images

2. Fund also argues that holding elections on a single date is a Constitutional requirement, or at least sort of Constitutional-ish:

The notion of Election Day isn’t just a tradition; it’s in the Constitution. Article II, Section 1 states that “Congress may determine the Time of choosing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.” Congress codified this requirement in 1872 by setting a uniform presidential election date.

If you read this passage slowly, you will note the progressive deterioration of Fund’s argument. The first sentence asserts baldly that a single election day is “in the Constitution,” which sounds like, you know, a requirement. This raises the question of why Republicans have not mounted a successful constitutional law challenge against early voting.

The answer begins to reveal itself in Fund’s second sentence. It explains that the Constitution states that Congress “may” — but not must — set a uniform day for “choosing the Electors,” which is not the same thing as voting, anyway. (You could choose the electors on a single day after you count all the votes, which may be cast over a longer period of time.)

The final sentence points out, correctly, that there was no set day until Congress decided to create one in 1872, which is another way of saying that a single day when everybody votes is not in the Constitution at all.

3. Fund argues that voting shouldn’t be convenient because fast food is convenient and fast food can be unhealthy:

There’s no doubt that many people in our increasingly mobile and hectic society want voting to be as easy and convenient as buying fast food. But too much of anything can be bad — just ask someone who has gorged on drive-thru burgers and fries.

One really does not know what to say here. Yes, people want voting and fast food to be easy and convenient. They want this for everything. People also like access to potable water to be easy and convenient. Perhaps this is an actual principle for Fund, who may have once experienced an episode of hamburger-gorging so humiliating, it left him with the misplaced but genuine belief that society must deliberately make convenient tasks more onerous, and he will soon propose that we eliminate indoor plumbing and go back to hauling water from the well with jugs. Alternatively, he merely favors government regulations that impose difficulty and inconvenience upon the public in this one way that happens to benefit the Republican Party.

According to the Daily Beast, Christie and Paul want to reassure voters “who view the Republican Party through the lens of its anti-civil-rights past.” Actually, the Republican Party’s past record on civil rights is not so bad. It’s the present that is the problem.

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Readers: What do you have to say? Blog me.

Ella: Thanks for your list. This is a good one for all to read so that you can be wary of any information that doesn’t sound right about voting in their state. Everyone should not believe everything they hear and do their research to stay informed. And remember…there is no late voting after the 4th. If you don’t vote before or on Tuesday, the 4th of November, you have just kissed your vote goodbye and handed it over to the repubs.

John: In theory, the suggestion to pick up peeps and get them registered, sounds great. I HOPE people are doing just that. However, it doesn’t seem to be a very simple process getting an I.D. From what I hear, to get one you may have to go through a lot of red tape, depending upon your state. Not that it isn’t worth it, but some might have a very challenging time, especially if they are working. And most that don’t have an I.D. are working people.

If you read the above write, it is difficult enough for people to get time off just to cast their vote,  let alone run around from place to place working on getting their I.D. And many just can’t afford it. For many they probably didn’t think these laws would get passed and now that they have, they have even less time to run out and get an I.D., and right now time is of the essence.

Readers: All I can say, is that it is so important that everyone votes. I encourage everyone to register, and if needed, get that voter I.D. If someone who is challenged physically or financially to register or get that voter I.D., and you can help, that would be the best. The more we can do for others that can’t, the more we will all benefit. It will be worth your time and money, if you can help out in any way that you can. Thank you.

If you have questions about whether you need a voter I.D. in your state, click this title:  VOTER IDENTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS | VOTER ID LAWS for the latest. This was updated on October 21st, 2014.

Nate: Nicely stated. I HOPE people will read and heed.

This is a good place for me to end. I’ll catch up and comment on the rest tomorrow. Thanks again for being here with me.

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34 Responses to “Repubs Want The OTW Vote, But Don’t Want The OTWs To Vote”

  1. lill on Guam Says:

    Lill On Guam Says:
    October 23rd, 2014 at 7:01 pm
    Hafa Adai:

    Guam Memorial Hospital now has a doctor on board with experience in treating ebola patients in Liberia. That doctor is ER Dr. Georgina Calderon. GMH Administrator Joe Verga tells us she’s now in charge of preparing a response team for the hospital in case ebola ever reaches the island.

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    In addition to introducing Dr. Calderon, the hospital is also educating and training their staff on ebola as part of their Annual Infection Control Fair.

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    Guam Memorial Hospital is the place possible ebola patients will be sent. Let’s hope it will be ready to accept those patients?

  2. Michele Says:

    Michelle, I agree. I live in NC and here the republican are on a mad tear to restrict OTWs and white areas that predominately vote democratic from voting.

    It is criminal.

  3. Alycedale Says:

    I am so fucking angry with this whiteboy attempt at genocide in West Africa. They have no problem saving victims that come to America with drugs.

    But they won’t ship those drugs to West Africa to save tens of thousands of West Africans. No whiteboy in any media source is asking “How Come?” There is a cure here, but not there.

    The Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa remains as in the past, it is expected a rapid and exponential increase in the number of cases and deaths.

    It is estimated that the cumulative number of cases will reach more than 8,000 95% CI (6,466-9,954) for the three countries Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the next 12 weeks.

  4. Howard Says:

    Al, this is a point that you motivated me to bring out. I think it says something about how our society is about domestic violence.
    —————————-

    Watch How Passersby React To Domestic Violence In Public
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/07/social-experiment-domestic-abuse_n_5928316.html

  5. Helena Says:

    YOU’RE NEVER GETTING THE LATEST, SCIENTIFICALLY-PROVEN INGREDIENTS WHEN YOU BUY YOUR SKINCARE PRODUCTS RETAIL.

    That’s because the majority of beauty’s big breakthroughs aren’t developed by the well-known cosmetic brands; they’re invented by a handful of dedicated research labs in France, Italy, and Switzerland several years before they are available in stores.

    Several times a year, these research labs confidentially reveal their newest patented formulas and ingredients to major consumer beauty brands, and these brands take what they see back to headquarters to run through their sales, marketing, and packaging departments.

    But here’s the real shocker — it then takes an average of three years for them to bring the new product, complete with all its fancy packaging and advertising, to market …three years until you get to try it!

  6. Oren Says:

    The Republicans will do what they always do when they get power – screw everything up and piss everybody off. Which means 2016 will be a TSUNAMI, with Hillary swept in with majorities in both Houses. A shame that President Obama’s last two years will be largely wasted, but this country is sadly half-filled with gullible fools.

  7. Lewis Says:

    When my family starts yelling at me for being a N lover. And that Obama hasn’t done anything for the country. I say.

    Fixing much of what was wrong with health insurance in this country was a major accomplishment. So was drawing down two wars and avoiding any new ones, as well as putting some much-needed balance on the Supreme Court, and avoiding a right-wing catastrophe up there.

    And just thinking about McCain bombing every country on Earth, or god forbid the Thrilla from Wassila being in charge, puts it all in perspective.

    That usually makes them leave me alone.

  8. Frederick Says:

    we’ll get to see your hero Rand Paul make an even bigger fool of himself if the Republicans take the Senate.

  9. Kay Says:

    ted cruz was the scariest choice for a pic. That just makes me want to scream at the top of my lungs “get your ass up and vote Dems!!!”

  10. Robin Says:

    Our corporatist state will continue to do as it pleases, no matter which wing of the corporate war party pretends to be in control. If Obama accelerating Bush’s agenda in every single respect hasn’t woken you up yet, you never will.

  11. Sheila Says:

    Oren#6, I am going with “apocalyptic doom” for America.

    Tax breaks for the rich and the middle class and poor paying for wars

  12. Megan Says:

    Robin#10, If you can’t understand how utterly different this nation would have been under McCain / Palin than it is now, then you’re just deluding yourself.

  13. Juan Says:

    I’ve told my progressive friends for months that this election is just as important as 2008 and 2012, and 2016. Yet they are not smitten enough with visible “celebrity” candidates like Obama and Hillary. So they intend to stay home. We all have to deal with the consequences of this total apathy.

  14. Will Says:

    It’s one hour out of one day every two years. It astonishes me how lazy people are.

  15. Helen Says:

    If the repugs take over the Senate absolutely no decent Democratic appointments could get through. The President would have to nominate even more conservative ones. Blame yourselves voters! He’s been dealing with a bare majority and you complained-wait until you see this.

    Democratic bills or amendments will no longer be allowed. Only republican bills will be brought to the floor.

    Committees would all get new republican heads. Look at the list and imagine Ted Cruz or any of the teabaggers in charge

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L

    Or, non-voters will soon have a real life lesson.

  16. Pablo Says:

    It seems that our nation has to hit bottom before we wake up to our plight. The Republicans are capable of taking us over the edge into the abyss. Young voters will pay a big price for not voting.

  17. Jessica Says:

    It is absolutely outrageous that, despite the Teabagger actions and the piss poor ratings of Congress, the GOP will take over Senate and retain the House. Tox News has done a bang up job keeping the fear and paranoia and fucking LIES rolling constantly since January 2009.

    And Dems have a tendency to sit mid term elections out. Don’t let that happen. VOTE! Prove these analysts wrong.

  18. Cruise Says:

    Republicans taking the Senate just means more gridlock in D.C..

  19. Olga Says:

    Will#14, I know…..I’ve noticed some “liberals” have jumped in at the last minute to support Democrats after complaining for years. They finally notice these crazy races are close. Hope it’s not too little too late

  20. Jessica Says:

    Pablo#16, Young voters seem a bit too comfortable with their iPads, iPhones, Facebook, gourmet cupcakes, Starbucks, video games and cable reality TV shows. They won’t change and they won’t vote until some or all of those are taken away from them.

  21. Raul Says:

    Olga#19, I’ve heard several different theories about this early reporting of a GOP “shellacking” this year. 1. The liberal groups are playing the “watch out” game to get voters out, even though they are really ahead in the polls. 2. The Teabagger groups realize they’re behind and are playing cocky to send the message that “it’s not worth the Dems time to vote, they’ve got the election sealed.”

    I suspect neither is correct. The GOP IS ahead because they have a solidified and angry base spoon fed lies and distorted information through Fox news since January 2009. They’re still beet red in the face when thinking about Obama’s re-election in 2012. Remember how Rove reacted.

  22. Connie Says:

    It is absolutely outrageous that, despite the Teabagger actions and the piss poor ratings of Congress, the GOP will take over Senate and retain the House. Tox News has done a bang up job keeping the fear and paranoia and fucking

    LIES rolling constantly since January 2009.
    And Dems have a tendency to sit mid term elections out. Don’t let that happen. VOTE! Prove these analysts wrong.

  23. Chris Says:

    If they take the Senate, they don’t have to nominate a Supreme until after 2016. Obama can leave as many seats open as we have now. Republicans will be the ones writing the legislation, anti-abortion, no unemployment, try again and again to repeal Obamacare, tax cuts for the wealthy, no minimum wage, no immigration reform.

    Right now republicans just hide, leave the tough calls to Democrats and Obama. That will change. Republicans will be in a fish-bowl for the next two years. Democrats will gleefully filibuster each and every amendment Mitch brings up for a vote, and if it should get 60 votes Obama will veto.

    Democrats can vacation and fund raise. In some ways this will truly be a “be careful what you wish for” for republicans. It couldn’t happen to a nicer group.

  24. Sonja Says:

    For some reason, I cannot look at Ted Cruz without thinking of George Wallace. Not just his looks, but his vitriol as well.

  25. Willy Says:

    At best, the returds would continue doing nothing but being a giant pain in the ass for Obama’s administration.
    At worst, well, that’s anybody’s guess. Just look at that picture of cruz. It reminds me of Caligula.

  26. Olga Says:

    What do you think people would be voting for if the GOP controls both houses? It appears that people want the crazies in charge.

    Here’s an example of President Obama “going along with their nuttery”. He nominates anyone even slightly left for any position-supreme court or federal judges, cabinet you name it. Repubs say NO. The President can do nothing.

    The whole country is officially nuts, We’ve had republican control many times, you would think people could see what happened.

  27. Bic Says:

    Raul#19, Maybe if the TP/GOP manages to suppress all Democratic votes in all the states, those stay-at-home Democrats might get off their asses and do what is right.
    The TP/GOP sure would suppress all but their own votes, if they could.

  28. Nancy Says:

    Raul#19, I think you’re correct in your assessment. Too close to call in my state, really depends on voter turnout. But, these races shouldn’t be close at all. Frightening. They’re trying to turn purple to red.

  29. Trudy Says:

    Raul#19, Yeah, Fox News is certainly a factor. However I believe the non-stop lie-train that is constantly emitted from dregs such as Limbaugh and Hannitty and their cloned colleagues are much more effective in garnering a republican victory, if it comes. I mean it’s one wild-eyed lie after another.

    In my mind, these guys should be taken off the air. What they’re doing and saying is all based on twisted, contorted misinformation of the most fabricated kind. It shouldn’t be “OK” for them to get away with it…. legally. Freedom of Speech should not include a pass on such outrageous and blatant lies that have such a huge effect on mindless imbeciles who follow their every word as fact. And vote accordingly.

  30. Jeff Says:

    The elimination of the Fairness Doctrine paved the way for this. We can thank Reagan for that one. One of his many wonderful legacies. “Free speech” was the crux of eliminating that doctrine.

    The architects of eliminating it (people like Roger Ailes and Ben Stein) were still sore about the “big bad liberal media” making Nixon resign. I agree that the lies and misinformation spouted off by Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage and the rest are equivalent to yelling “fire” in a packed movie house.

    That is not protected by “free speech” as it creates a panic. What Hannity, Limbaugh, Fox News are doing is the same thing – creating a panic. Ebola, ISIS, Iran, Obama is coming to take their guns and Bibles away…it never ends.

  31. Scambusters Says:

    8 Money Wiring Fraud Prevention Tips
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    Money wiring services and reloadable debit cards are still criminals’ payment method of choice when it comes to raking in their ill-gotten gains from scam victims.

    So much so, in fact, that a couple of the big money wiring companies themselves have agreed to pay compensation of $200 million to reimburse victims, and one of the leading debit card firms has announced that it will abandon its main reloadable card in 2015.

    The attraction to the crooks is simple: Both payment methods are untraceable. Law enforcement is usually unable to track down where the money went.

    Wiring and reloadable cards are, of course, perfectly legal and play a very useful role in legitimate money transfers and payments.

    But they’re also perfect for scams, like:

    * Advance payment (where victims get a dud check and are asked to wire part of the value to a scammer-in-disguise, before the check “bounces”).

    * Distress scams (where victims receive a bogus message from a relative, friend or colleague who is supposedly in trouble and urgently needs cash).

    * Lottery scams (where victims are told they must pay tax and processing fees before they can collect their — non-existent — winnings).

    * Phony fines and overdue bill demands, most recently the widespread IRS unpaid-tax-bill scam.

    You’d think that the people who provide these payment methods would be able to spot a scam when a victim comes up to them and tries to transfer money — especially to someone in countries where the crooks operate.

    Actually, they sometimes do manage to stop people, mostly in their 80s and beyond, before they pay up.

    But consumer organizations, notably the Federal Trade Commission, have been critical in the past, suggesting they could do more, which is why some of them have agreed both to hand money back to victims and to be monitored by the FTC.

  32. Mike,TM Says:

    The white nations have another fear this one will prompt them to produce a vaccine for Ebola. They have learned that ISIS has been preparing some of their members to commit suicide by getting Ebola and traveling to Europe and America to infect as many as they can before they die.

    Suddenly there is now a rush to develop a vaccine. The reason is whatever cure that maybe hidden will not work fast enough to save whites from the very means they have looked the other way while it kills thousands of blacks.

    The information about the upcoming Ebola attacks by ISIS came from sources in the Netherlands. They learned of the plot from potential recruits in their countries.

    There are different strains of Ebola so the worlds top Drug companies are now working on Zaire and Sudan strains and a related condition called Marburg disease.

    Greed and racism has kept Drug companies from spending any money on research to produce a vaccine. But the world economies will come to a halt if travel is impeded by the Ebola scare.

    Tourism is so important to many countries that even a 4% drop worldwide will cause devastating effects on the world economy.

    Add to that the lost of business travel between countries and within their own countries and it could be worst than the recent economic scare because investment will come to a standstill.

    It looks like the latest plot to thin the world populations with a genocidal virus has turned into a potential nightmare for the 1%.

    They are becoming afraid that the virus will mutate into strains they will have no cure for. And if ISIS makes good their threat there may be no doctors left to give them the vaccine.

    So now you can look forward to an international push on Drug companies from all over the world to come up with a vaccine.

    Nothing like self preservation to force my race to do something for OTWs.

  33. Al Says:

    Howard #4: Good post that probably everyone should see. This social experiment shows a major contrast in how women and men are reacted to differently (and rightly so in my opinion) by passersby. A man being abused by a woman is not likely to be maimed or seriously hurt by the woman. On the other hand a woman being abused by a man can easily end up with major injuries to the woman, that is the reason that passersby come to the defense of the woman being abused and do not defend the man being abused. Abuse is abuse and is wrong coming from either gender.

    Now Howard, if you don’t mind, could you please tell me why I would be the one to inspire you to post this social experiment? My curiosity has gotten the best of me here.

  34. Michelle Moquin's "A day in the life of…" » Blog Archive » The Power Of Governors In Our Government Says:

    […] Juan, Will et al: Do as much as you can to get them there. We really can make a difference if we all show up. A no show is a vote for the republicans. If they think that enough is not getting done now, they will really learn what that means if the repubs take control. Total apathy and being lazy is not acceptable. I do not want to hear people complain later on if they do nothing now. We have the power. If we lose we have only us to blame. Let’s give it our best efforts. OK? Helen said it well. […]