.@GovRonDeSantis wants to allow Trump & others with similar violent messaging to be able to use social media to incite more political violence. 1/ wsj.com/articles/flori…
2/ This is what @RonDeSantis is promoting. He and other Republicans want to use terror (violence and fear of violence) to force their way back into power.
3/ This is what terrorists do. They commit acts of violence and/or instill fear of acts of violence to achieve political goals.
Democrats in 2020: "We need robust manual election audits!"
GOP: "Eff you! Audits are for snowflakes! We want unverified electronic results!"
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2/ Democrats (post election): "Too bad we lost all those down ballot races we were supposed to win. Oh well. Time to concede."
3/ GOP (post election): Yeah, too bad you lost all those down ballot races you were supposed to win. Good thing you conceded, or we would have called you "sore losers!"
Texas & voting machine vendor ES&S are hiding something. I requested a copy of the video of the voting-system examination that triggered a secret multi-state investigation of ES&S by @EACgov last year. Texas AG Ken Paxton (Mr. “Stop the Steal”) just ruled I can’t have it. 1/
In other words, Paxton, who tried to overrule other state’s election results due to baseless claims about Dominion Voting is now engaged in a coverup about ES&S. 2/
Obviously, the video could have been trimmed to remove passwords, which should be updated regularly anyway. This is a coverup. 3/
History of the Filibuster. “The Southern filibusters were serious, well-organized power plays designed to defeat any attempt to extend equal rights to black people.” 1/ historynet.com/a-short-histor…
“For decades, the House passed bills to outlaw discrimination and protect the right of black citizens to vote, only to watch the bills killed by filibusters in the Senate.” 2/
“In an era when white mobs frequently lynched black people with impunity, Southern senators used filibusters to defeat anti-lynching bills in 1922, 1935, 1938, 1948 and 1949.” 3/
2/ “Last year, a study that found an 82 percent mid-summer decline in the number and weight of bugs captured in traps in 63 nature preserves in Germany compared with 27 years earlier.”
“It was one of the few, if only, broad studies. Scientists say similar comparisons can't be done elsewhere, because similar bug counts weren't done decades ago.” 3/
Great piece by @JenAFifield about the potential upcoming ballot image audit in Maricopa County by Ray Lutz’s nonprofit, Citizens Oversight. 1/ azcentral.com/story/news/pol…
“The Senate would pay the nonprofit, and Lutz said it would also accept outside donations, but not from political organizations or ‘from crazies.’” 2/
“Asked specifically whether he would accept donations from the Republican nonprofit advocacy organizations that have been created to fundraise for the audit, he said he would not.” 3/
The problem is the length of America’s ballots. If we conducted state & county elections at a different time of year than federal, then hand counting would be more viable. 1/
The move away from precinct voting & toward large vote centers & vote by mail make hand counting less likely than it already it is. 2/