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Ari Berman

@AriBerman

23 Oct

I spend lots of time writing about all ways voting is being suppressed. So here’s a hopeful story: we could be seeing a backlash to GOP suppression in states like TX & GA, with voters turning out in record numbers to defend their right to vote from attack motherjones.com/2020-elections…

@LinaHidalgoTX

More than 1 million votes have already been cast in Harris County TX, exceeding 2016 early voting total with a week of early voting left

@LinaHidalgoTX told me Greg Abbott's plan closing mail dropoff sites backfired on GOP

"It was so transparently about suppression,” she said.

@CGHollins

Harris Co clerk @CGHollins deserves lot of credit for making voting easier:

-3x early voting locations

-drive-through voting

-24/7 voting

-arenas as polling places

"Voters are responding by saying, ‘I’ll show you,’ & coming out in record numbers to have their voices heard.”

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Ari Berman

@AriBerman

11 Oct

New: Amy Coney Barrett defended Bush-Cheney during 2000 Florida recount when Republicans illegally altered 1000s of mail ballot request forms for GOP voters

If GOP lost cases Gore would’ve been president

Now she could do Bush v Gore 2.0 for Trump motherjones.com/politics/2020/…

Amy Coney Barrett, John Roberts & Brett Kavanaugh all served on George W. Bush‘s legal team during Florida 2000 recount & worked to make sure only GOP votes counted, increasing likelihood 6-3 SCOTUS will throw out enough Dem ballots to keep Trump in power

In Florida 2000 GOP officials illegally fixed errors on absentee ballot requests so GOP voters got mail ballots. Barrett defended GOP. Those mail ballots were difference for George W Bush

This year Trump campaign sued to throw out 150,000 absentee ballot requests in Iowa

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Ari Berman

@AriBerman

1 Oct

How GOP voter suppression works in Texas

-you can vote with gun permit but not student ID

-no online voter registration

-must be deputized to register voters

-voters under 65 can’t use fear of covid to vote by mail

-only 1 place to drop ballots off in huge Dem counties

Texas closed 750 polling places after SCOTUS gutted Voting Rights Act, more than any other state

72% of closures came in 50 counties with fastest growth of Blacks & Latinos motherjones.com/politics/2020/…

Texas GOP playbook: make it as hard as possible to vote, even in pandemic, to prevent Dems & voters of color from taking power. It's now been adopted by Republican Party at all levels motherjones.com/politics/2020/…

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Ari Berman

@AriBerman

19 Sep

@mcpli

Stop saying election 45 days away. Voting already started. 100,000 voted by mail in NC & huge early voting turnout in VA

In-person early voting starts today in MI, NJ & VT & absentee ballots mailed in AL, DE, GA, ID, IN, LA, MI, NJ, OK, PA, RI, TN, TX, VT, VA & WY via @mcpli

@ElectProject

And today is 45-day deadline to send ballots to military & overseas voters in all states, as @ElectProject notes

https://twitter.com/electproject/status/1307303860579586051

Correction: in person early voting begins September 24 in Michigan

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Ari Berman

@AriBerman

17 Sep

Wow, federal judge rules Trump & Louis DeJoy were "involved in a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service” & will issue injunction reversing changes leading to mail delays under DeJoy washingtonpost.com/politics/feder…

"At the heart of DeJoy’s & the Postal Service’s actions is voter disenfranchisement," federal judge writes in ruling reversing USPS changes. "An intentional effort to disrupt & challenge the legitimacy of upcoming local, state, and federal elections" courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Huge federal court ruling yesterday confirms what we knew all along: Trump & DeJoy attempted to sabotage USPS to undermine free & fair elections. Now USPS must reverse mail delays before election motherjones.com/politics/2020/…

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Ari Berman

@AriBerman

24 Aug

Katie Porter asks DeJoy how much it costs to mail a postcard. DeJoy says he doesn't know. HE IS POSTMASTER GENERAL

For the record it's 35 cents

Porter: “What about [the cost] to mail a postcard?”

DeJoy: “I don’t know, ma’am”

Porter: “You don’t know the cost to mail a postcard?”

DeJoy: “I don’t”