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BumRushDaShow

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4. "I understand that we are in the minority due to a very questionable election."
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 09:46 AM
Apr 27
Personally as a former local election worker in a state that had its presidential election stolen I want to see safeguards implemented and the autopsy of 2024 publicized. I want to see that we are actually going to have a shot at votes counted. We are late to the game for this so IMO.


We aren't "late". As soon as Democrats took back over in 2020, the first 2 bills they introduced were these -

H.R.4 - John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021

H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021

They established the necessary "guardrails" and would have pieced the original Voting Rights Act of 1965, BACK together after John Roberts picked it apart. But because of the 60-vote threshold (filibuster) in the Senate, they couldn't get these enacted without a change in that filibuster Rule (Manchin & Sinema blocked any idea of a "carve-out" of the 60-vote threshold). Then in 2022, we lost the House, and that was the end of that.

Back in 2019, that dumbass Mick Mulvaney spouted - "Get over it... elections have consequences", and right now, we are experiencing the results.

The ones that need to see the light and thwart this, are the GOP and we need to get more people voting EVERY YEAR - including those off-year state/county/municipal elections. We still continue to see gobs of people not even bothering (and that's not including those who DO try and get blocked with draconian measures to keep them from voting).

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