Acc/to a statement by #KenPaxton’s office, a grand jury returned indictments against Rochelle Camacho, the county #judge of Frio County; Carlos Segura, a former elections administrator for Frio; Ramiro Trevino & Racheal Garza, #CouncilMembers for the city of Pearsall; Adriann Ramirez, a trustee w/the #school district in Pearsall; & Rosa Rodriguez, who is described as an “alleged Frio County vote harvester.”
#VotingRights #law #ElectionLaw #Republicans #racism #VoteSuppression
Now, 5 people, all with *ties* to Democratic candidates, are accused of illegal *vote harvesting*, which usually involves knocking on doors & asking if volunteers can deliver completed absentee or mail-in ballots to voting centers or ballot drop boxes.
In 2021, Gov #GregAbbott signed an overhaul of #Texas #election laws which included new restrictions on vote harvesting, making it illegal to deliver a ballot for a 3rd party.
#VotingRights #law #ElectionLaw #Republicans #racism #VoteSuppression
The charges surprised #Latino #VotingRights activists, who had insisted that a series of #law enforcement raids on political operatives & voting organizers, some who were in their 70s & 80s, appeared to have been #political. The raids last August by #KenPaxton’s office were part of a sprawling voter *fraud* inquiry in Latino enclaves near San Antonio & in South Texas, conducted by Paxton’s “election integrity unit.”
A half-dozen people, including a county #judge, 2 #CityCouncil members & a former county #election administrator, were indicted in #Texas on Wednesday for “vote harvesting” & tampering with evidence, elevating AG #KenPaxton’s charges of voter *fraud* by mostly #Latino #Democrats to a #criminal level.
#VotingRights #law #ElectionLaw #Republicans #racism #VoteSuppression
#Texas Attorney General [& proven criminal ala Trump] #KenPaxton Announces Vote *Fraud* & *Harvesting* Charges
A county #judge, two #CityCouncil members & a former county election administrator are among Paxton’s targets as he elevates his *election integrity* accusations to criminality.
#criminal #VotingRights #law #ElectionLaw #Republicans #racism #VoteSuppression
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/us/politics/texas-vote-fraud.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=F5D25D7E-1E9A-45C7-AC8D-88D61446B547
Really, if you can, worthwhile to listen. Very good background on the insidious GOP 'SAVE' act & Trump's EO attacking our right to vote.
[Slate Amicus Podcast]: Trump’s Plan To Put A Chokehold On Voting. Dahlia Lithwick, Mark Joseph Stern, Wendy Weiser
#saveAct #executiveOrders #votingRights #voteSuppression
#Law #justice #courts
@ai6yr
Kinda makes voter ID laws look like part of a vote suppression campaign.
"Republicans plan to move quickly in their effort to overhaul the nation’s voting procedures, seeing an opportunity with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress to push through long-sought changes that include voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements."
https://apnews.com/article/voting-congress-citizenship-voter-id-republicans-88342cf09d01b0555851aa3d64c45432
"Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature are moving quickly to place a measure on the April ballot that would enshrine the state’s already strict voter ID requirement into the state constitution."
https://apnews.com/article/voting-congress-citizenship-voter-id-republicans-88342cf09d01b0555851aa3d64c45432
"Maine voters will decide whether the state will become the latest to require voter identification at the polls. A conservative group in the state has been gathering petitions to get an act on the ballot to require presentation of photographic identification for the purpose of voting."
https://apnews.com/article/voter-id-maine-referendum-vote-elections-3f37bce76938af80b445bb0b9387e8c1
Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won.
#USPol #VoteSuppression #democracy ??
https://mailchi.mp/gregpalast/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won?e=6502be1fb1
https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
This is just tragic. The issue imho is not even that the Trump campaign succeeded to win by #votesuppression , it is more that the US voting system is so broken, that this approach is so stupidly easy...
"#Trump lost. That is, if all legal #voters were allowed to vote, if all legal #ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala #Harris would have won the #Presidency with 286 electoral votes."
"The nasty little secret of American #democracy is that we don’t count all the votes. Nor let every citizen vote."
https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
About the author: @GregPalast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Palast
Looks legit. I wonder, what it would take to deny #USA the title "democracy". 🤔
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US Supreme Court allows Virginia to continue purging citizens from voter rolls during #USElection2024
Republican #GlennYoungkin 's order is for "suspected" non-citizens, but it's been removing citizens due to how they're doing it and the Supreme Court approves
Vote if you can and think of those who can not
VA allows in person registration through Election Day, so perhaps the citizens who've been targeted can re-register
Check your registration!!!
vote.gov
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4901476-north-carolina-purges-747k-voters/
From 2022: #Redistricting In #NewMexico Has Systematically Diluted The Voice Of #NativeAmerican #Voters
#FarmingtonNewMexico has a well-documented history of #discrimination and violence against Native residents, and #VoteSuppression is part of the continued struggle.
by Aidan Graybill
Mar 24, 2022
"In 1974 three #Navajo men — Herman #DodgeBenally, #JohnEarlHarvey, and #DavidIgnacio — were brutally murdered on the outskirts of Farmington, New Mexico by three white teenagers.
"In response to the murders, many advocacy organizations — including the University of New Mexico #KivaClub, the American Indian Movement (#AIM), and the #NAACP — mobilized in Farmington. The high schoolers responsible for the murders were sentenced to a few years at the state reformatory after closed-door proceedings. Many in the Farmington community felt this punishment wasn’t sufficient and multiple marches and protests ensued.
"Following a march in May 1974, a list of demands was presented to the Farmington mayor which addressed, “basic community problems affecting Indians, and calls for increased responsiveness by elected officials to these needs.
"While the clash between Navajos and whites in the community continued to rage, the city administration held open sessions and discussions for everyone in the community — Navajos shared their sweeping and ubiquitous experiences of discrimination.
"Whether it was high school students excluded from extracurricular activities, blue-collar workers harassed by their white employers, or individuals who were refused service at restaurants, the common themes of bigotry and racism riddled their everyday lives.
[...]
"Thirty years later, the New Mexico State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on #CivilRights issued a follow-up report on civil rights for #NativeAmericans in Farmington. Then-president of #Shiprock Chapter, Duane Yazzie, noted that there was progress and improvement in the general social climate for Navajo people in Farmington:
"'Yes, there continues to be periodic problems but, for the most part, the efforts of the public servants, including law enforcement, the courts, the business community, and the major employers in the regions, there has been considerable advancement.'
"However, the same report also included other testimony explaining that there had actually been little progress since the 1970s, considering the lack of Native American representation in positions of civic leadership:
"'You’ve asked if change — you asked if change has happened since the early 1970s? Consider that question by looking at the numbers. Each community’s pillars are those that are elected as well as those that serve in the government structure.
"'If one looks at those positions in the local government, you will find very few, if any, Native Americans. It doesn’t matter if you look at the county, the city, or even local institutions. You will still find very few Native Americans in high-level, decision-making positions.
"'After 30 years, you would think the local governments would have made great progress in this area.'"
Original web page:
https://medium.com/the-public-magazine/redistricting-in-new-mexico-has-systematically-diluted-the-voice-of-native-voters-2679ea10ad84
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/g608Q
#ChokecherryMassacres #Diné #WhiteRacists
#MMIM #MurderedAndMissingIndigenousMen #NativeVoters #VoterSuppression
"Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock told the audience: 'A vote is a kind of prayer for the kind of world we desire for ourselves and for our children, and we are stronger when we pray together.'"
#Democrats #DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #VotingRights #VoteSuppression #BlackVoters #Georgia #RaphaelWarnock
/12
"We should all demand, including in states like mine that don’t have early voting and no-excuse absentee voting, the right to go souls to the polls, in whatever for that takes for us. Go from your church, your temple, your mosque. Have a voting brunch or a neighborhood walk to the polls. Do whatever it takes. Voting should be easy. It should be encouraged. But far too often, it isn’t."
#Democrats #DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #VotingRights #VoteSuppression #BlackVoters #Georgia #Warnock
/11
"A new law in Georgia permits counties to eliminate Sunday voting. Sunday voting, known as 'souls to the polls' in the deep South, makes it possible for Black voters who work on Tuesdays to march straight from church to vote on their day of worship. Their votes are prayers."
~ Joyce Vance
#Democrats #DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #VotingRights #VoteSuppression #BlackVoters #Georgia
/10
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/kamala-harris-for-the-people-images
OTD in 2020, #GOP President Donald #Trump said that he was cutting funding for the US Postal Service in order to make it harder to vote https://toilet-guru.com/trump/?s=mb #VoteSuppression
OTD in 2020, #GOP President Donald #Trump said that he was cutting funding for the US Postal Service in order to make it harder to vote https://toilet-guru.com/trump/?s=mb #VoteSuppression
