Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "'Connect the dots': Pamela Brown on how Trump's Big Lie will affect future elections" video.

  1. Let's be clear, the only reason Trump won in 2016 was because millions of Americans didn't vote. The voter turnout in 2016 was only 54%. Voter turnout in 2020 was exceptionally high at 66.8%. If voter turnout had been 66% in 2016, Trump would have lost. And this is why Republicans are engaging in voter suppression. Again, let's be clear, the GOP isn't trying to stop mass voter fraud, because mass voter fraud doesn't exist, and Republicans know this. Republicans are trying to stop Americans from voting in mass. DJT openly admitted on fox that making it easier to vote in America would hurt the Republican party. DJT: “The things they had in there were krazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox. “I don’t want everybody to vote,” Paul Weyrich, an influential conservative activist, said in 1980. “As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” Remarks in the Capitol Rotunda at the Signing of the Voting Rights Act. August 06, 1965 "This act flows from a clear and simple wrong. Its only purpose is to right that wrong. Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote because of their color. This law will ensure them the right to vote. The wrong is one which no American, in his heart, can justify. The right is one which no American, true to our principles, can deny." "In 1957, as the leader of the majority in the United States Senate, speaking in support of legislation to guarantee the right of all men to vote, I said, "This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies." "If you do this, then you will find, as others have found before you, that the vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men." -- President Lyndon B. Johnson
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  3.  @SCDeerAddict  Except it's not just voter ID. • Closing of DMV’s in strict voter ID law states. • Failure to accept government-issued state university and college student ID’s. • No early voting. • Early voting cuts. • No Sunday Souls to the Polls Early Voting. • Harsh requirements/punishments for voter registration groups. • Tough Deputy Registrar Requirements. • Harsh voter registration compliance deadlines. • Failure to timely process voter registrations. • Cuts to Election Day (Same Day) registration. • Polling place reductions. • Polling place relocations. • Inadequate or poorly trained staffing at polls. • Inadequate number of functioning machines, optical scanners, or electronic polling books. • Running out of ballots at polling sites. • No paper ballots. • Failure to accept Native American tribal IDs. • Barring Native American voters through residential address requirements for Native American lands which have PO Boxes. • Failure to place polling sites on Native American lands. • Refusal to place polling sites on college campuses. • Lack of available public transportation to polling sites. • Excessive Voter purging • Disparate racial treatment at polling sites. • Student voting restrictions. • Residency. • Ex-felon disenfranchisement laws. • Requiring Payment of Fines or Fees As Condition of Vote Restoration. • Failure to Inform Formerly Incarcerated Persons of Their Voting Rights or Eligibility to Vote. • Excessive Use of Inactive voter lists. • No Public Outreach or Notification to Voters Placed on Inactive Lists • Language discrimination. • Lack of language-accessible materials. • Failure to accommodate voters with disabilities. • No disability accessibility. • No Curbside Voting. • Not enough disability accessible voting equipment. ▪︎ Barriers to assistance by family members or others for voters ▪︎ Deceptive practices. • Flyers • Robocalls • Voter intimidation • Impersonating law enforcement personnel or immigration officers • Police at polling places • Racial gerrymandering • Creating polling place confusion by splitting Black precincts • Partisan gerrymandering • Barriers for homeless voters to voter registration • Voter caging • Use of One-Time Post cards/Mailers • Voter challengers at polls • Voter challenges to voter registration lists • Use of Suspense lists • Absentee Ballot Short Return Deadlines  • Exact match requirements for signatures or other information • Complicated Absentee Ballot Requirements. • Proof of Citizenship Laws. • Failure to pre-register 17 year olds • Restrictions on straight-party voting • Interstate voter registration Crosscheck system. • Jailed persons’ preconviction: denied right to register and/or vote. • DOJ demanding voter records. • Employers not providing time off or enough time. • Failure to assist or accommodate voters displaced by natural disasters.
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