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6 Nov 20

No, dead people don’t vote. Our election officials are there to ensure that. “Ballots of voters who have died are rejected in Michigan, even if the voter cast an absentee ballot and then died before Election Day” - MI SoS bit.ly/36qDqsP

No, Biden didn’t magically get 130k MI votes. ElectionDeskHQ had a data uploading error which has since been corrected, and the original poster of the viral tweet deleted it. bit.ly/3n0Azxb

No, 300k mail-in ballots have not gone missing. USPS workers are expediting delivery, and some data systems aren’t up to date. bit.ly/3p5ExXi

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RepresentUs

@representus

22 Sep 20

The 7 Deadly Sins of American Democracy 👇

1⃣ Voter Suppression - Broad attempts to systematically discourage or restrict access to registration and voting.

2⃣ Voter Erasure/Purging - A flawed process of cleaning up voter rolls by deleting names from registration lists.

While updating registration lists as voters die, move, or otherwise become ineligible is necessary & important, when done irresponsibly, it is disenfranchising.

3⃣ Felony Disenfranchisement - The practice of barring individuals from voting based on prior felony convictions. These policies often have a disproportionate impact on communities of color, who comprise the majority of the current criminal justice system population.

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RepresentUs

@representus

31 Aug 20

We think of ourselves as Americans, as exceptional Americans. There's this idea of American exceptionalism. That shining city on the hill for the rest of the world to look to, and unfortunately, these days...

Lest you were thinking of leaving the US, fleeing somewhere else, well, too bad. The European Union, Canada, the Bahamas won't let us in anymore. Meanwhile, we've now got unmarked federal agents in the streets, we've got protests happening all over the country in record numbers..

Amidst it all, we are trying to hold an election & our means for doing so - by mail - is under attack too. I think that many of us are somewhere between concerned and, slide 10, deeply concerned. So what we're going to do is spend the next few minutes making sense of this mess.

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RepresentUs

@representus

9 Aug 20

Dear President Trump,

If you are afraid of a free and fair election and cannot commit to a peaceful transfer of power, the Constitution offers another way out:

Resign.

#DefendDemocracy

This is not partisanship, it’s patriotism. Since our founding, RepresentUs has staunchly supported Americans of every stripe whose love of democracy is stronger than their love of a political party.

We are conservatives and progressives who believe it is the fundamental right of every U.S. citizen to vote. Like every American, we despise corruption and self-dealing.

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RepresentUs

@representus

21 Jun 20

It’s going to be really hard to address any other issue - whether it’s education, healthcare, or criminal justice, unless we first fix America’s corrupt political system. Here’s how we do it. #justiceforsale #unrigthesystem

1) Ban gifts from lobbyists to politicians. 2) Close the revolving door between Congress and special interests. 3) Enfranchise even more voters with automatic voter registration and vote by mail, so politicians actually represent us. #unrigthesystem

These ideas are popular with both conservatives and progressives because it’s not about giving power to one party or the other. It’s about fixing the systems behind America’s biggest problems.

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RepresentUs

@representus

18 Jun 20

1/ America’s criminal justice system is broken and lobbyists and politicians have a vested interest in keeping it that way. They benefit from the system just the way it is. #justiceforsale #unrigthesystem

2/ Even though crime rates across the US are going down, America locks up 7 times more people now than we did in 1970...

3/ America puts more people behind bars than any other nation in the world, both as a percentage of population and in total numbers. More than Russia & China.

#prisons

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