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18 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The GOP has been treating the bare fact of turnout & political engagement in predominantly Black jurisdictions as indicating fraud.
Which is not new, to be clear.
Since the 15th Amendment, the history of voting rights is a long series of maneuvers by white politicians to suppress black voters thru proxies for race, as if they're after something else.

This is one such maneuver, exclude the areas where black people disproportionately live.
One day after the grotesque GOP behavior about Detroit, here's another example of how the purported sign of fraud is the *bare fact* that there were people who voted in a disproportionately Black county, & that the county reported the votes. Nothing else.

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19 Nov
Every state had big stakes on the ballot. I previewed them before Nov. 3 — and now we know enough to revisit it all.

Here's a new thread on each & every state, and DC & Puerto Rico too. Idea is to encapsulate as much of what went down as I can within 280 characters. Let's go!
As a first step: Here's the pre-election thread if you want to explore it.

Of course, most of the information here is available on my whatsontheballot.com/2020-general-e…!

And a series of December/January runoffs, of course, still loom large. The cycle is not over!

1️⃣ Oregon:
—became the first state to decriminalize drug possession
—legalized psilocybin
—Dems flipped the Secretary of State office
—Portland/Mulntomah adopted preschool for all
—Portland's mayor beat left challenge
—Rep. DeFazio re-elected in tighter than usual race
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17 Nov
Is anyone aware of a publication that's tracking the results of the NY election? AP page I use is broken for NY; the NYT has the Republican's lead in #NY22 8 times wider than it is now from @JRosenblattTV's reporting & tweets; & the state BoE page is somehow even further behind.
Besides problems in the actual running of the election, the lack of transparency around so many things in New York's elections are astounding. Compare CA & AK's constantly updating communication about exaclty how many ballots are left, with whatever the New York BoE is up to.
I believe New York is also the only state where I've been asked by election offices to file FOIL requests when I've reached out with the extremely basic but somehow opaque question of who were all the candidates who'd filed in a local election & would be on the ballot.
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16 Nov
Big news in Virginia.

You may recall the Portsmouth police filed felony charges vs a black state Senator, an NAACP leader, & public defenders over participation in protests. They also targeted the reform prosecutor to sideline her.

All those charges now dropped by prosecutors.
This is part of a long history of this sort of assault on black political leadership in Portsmouth, this great @virginianpilot article found in the summer, so keep watching: pilotonline.com/government/loc…
Next up: Portsmouth is voting for its prosecutor in 2021.

The incumbent, Morales, is among the local officials who were targeted by police. (A judge ruled against police effort to sideline her last month.) All happened shortly after she did this in July:
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16 Nov
North Carolina’s state BoE says today that Washington Co. double reported its mail ballots & will be formally correcting its canvass tomorrow. This will net hundreds of votes to Newby (=the Republican who trails by 35 votes out of 5.3 million before this).
And the BoE flags a 2nd previously unknown change to come tomorrow: reddish Robeson, on top of roughly 700 provisionals (that batch we knew of), will report 1951 ballots from an early voting site.

That’s 2 big things coming, in Supreme Court race with big civil rights stakes.
OK, so: Here is breakdown of the 1951 early-voting ballots left out in Robeson (h/t @andyinrok): carolinaelections.com/votetracker/ge…

54% of ballots are from registered Dems. But here many Dems vote GOP. (County's EV/absentee was 58% Dem: went Beasley +8, Trump +7.) 70% Native American.
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16 Nov
‼️ Dems have seized a 17-vote (!) lead in Alaska's HD17 with the count of mail-in ballots, which (if it holds post-canvass & recount) may end up denying the GOP legislative control & an overall trifecta in this state!
It'd depend on whether a few GOP defectors keep defecting.

It may also depend on if there's more to count in #HD15, where the count of mail-in ballots (just in) have left the Dem candidate 91 votes behind. (We'll know shortly if there's more.)
Correction: The first tweet should say HD27, not HD17. (Thanks @ChazNuttycombe.) [And HD40 is a 3rd & at this point likely final district whose winner is up-in-the-air, but no new ballots counted there in days.]
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16 Nov
It's urgently time to look ahead: over the next 6 weeks, there are at least 3 big runoffs (other than U.S. Senate races we all know about!).

—the DA race in New Orleans
—the DA race in Athens
—a race for the Public Service Commission in GA

A brief thread on why you should care.
1️⃣ Outgoing New Orleans DA has been exceedingly punitive, vowed to put more children in jail, & more.

The race to replace him has fueled big grassroots energy, & (very varying) reform promises from candidates. See below (Landrum & Williams in runoff). theappeal.org/politicalrepor…
2️⃣ DA race in Athens almost didn't take place: Gov. Kemp tried cancelling it & leave an acting DA in place till 2022. (theappeal.org/politicalrepor…)

But a reform candidate (Deborah Gonzalez) won in court, & race back on. She & a reform-skeptic candidate made runoff (over acting DA).
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