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13 Dec, 14 tweets, 6 min read
🔥BREAKING: “Harvard’s Larry Lessig joins student hunger strike calling for action on voting rights… ‘The threat is that this election [in 2022] will cement the US as a minoritarian democracy,’ Prof Lessig told The Independent in an interview.” @lessig 1/ independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
I wrote this thread about the Arizona college students’ hunger strike here. They are on Day 8. #HungerStrike4Democracy 2/ threadreaderapp.com/thread/1469875…
Joe Madison is already in month two of his hunger strike for voting rights. @MadisonSiriusXM 3/
You can read about the #FreedomToVoteAct (#HandMarkedPaperBallots, #AutomaticVoterRegistration, #BanOnGerrymandering) and #JohnLewisVotingRightsAct here. 4/
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1470472…
You can follow the college hunger strikers at @LetsUnpac. 5/
Here is the website for the college hunger strikers, which explains how we can support their voting-rights effort by joining the hunger strike, making donations, or in various other ways. 6/
un-pac.org/arizona-hunger…
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.@MuellerSheWrote
.@NormOrnstein
.@djrothkopf
7/ The college students were also joined in DC on Monday by Joe Madison, a radio host and human rights activist who launched his own separate hunger strike for voting rights SEVERAL WEEKS ago. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
8/ Madison declared several weeks ago that he “would not eat solid food until ‘Congress passes, and President Biden signs, the Freedom to Vote Act or the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act’”.
9/ Here is something else the #FreedomToVoteAct would do. cc: @DavidPepper
.@MalcolmNance

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Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 Profile picture
15 Dec
The guy who worked for you wrote it; the link is in the article. BTW, hi Mike. I hear this is one of your sock puppet accounts. 1/
2/ Link: politico.com/f/?id=00000176… Image
3/ This is all you, Mike. washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/w…
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14 Dec
The #FreedomToVoteAct wld provide a needed remedy to voters who have been improperly purged from voter rolls (remember the bogus purge in 2000 & hacked voter registration systems in 2016?) by allowing Election Day registration & requiring that states offer provisional ballots. 1/
2/ The bogus voter purge in 2000 improperly removed up to 12k voters from the rolls in the decisive state of Florida, which Bush won by only 537 votes. Rs have embraced broad purges ever since. Image
3/ Remember??? Thirty-seven states “reported finding traces of the hackers in various systems…In two others -- Florida and California -- those traces were found in systems run by a private contractor managing critical election systems.” 6/13/17 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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14 Dec
It’s been more than 20 years since a faulty felon list caused the state of Florida to erroneously purge up to 12,023 voters in a presidential election that Bush won by only 537 votes in the Sunshine State. The GOP has embraced broad voter purges ever since. 1/ Image
The #FreedomToVoteAct would curb such abuse by providing specific criteria that must be met before removing voters from the voter rolls (failure to return a postcard won’t suffice unless it’s returned as undeliverable) & implementing automatic & same day voter registration. 2/ Image
The screenshot in post 1 is an excerpt from my draft book. 3/
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Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 Profile picture
14 Dec
😳Why is US media ignoring the college students who are on a hunger strike until the #FreedomToVoteAct passes?! Why do we have to get this news from the UK (Guardian & Independent)?! I interviewed 3 of the strikers yesterday. They are now on day 9. 1/
2/ Here is the Guardian article. theguardian.com/us-news/2021/d…
3/ independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
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Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 Profile picture
14 Dec
WTAF?! @POTUS just hosted a "democracy summit" and yet no one in his administration has reached out to these college students & others who are on a hunger strike in DC, literally starving, to persuade him to prioritize the #FreedomToVoteAct. What is going on?! cc: @LetsUnpac 1/
Where has the US media been?! If it weren't for @Guardian and @Independent, both UK publications, I would not have heard of these college students and their hunger strike for voting rights. The absence of mainstream American coverage is disgraceful. 2/ theguardian.com/us-news/2021/d…
😥"Words don't even describe," college student Georgia Linden told me when I asked how she and the other hunger strikers felt about the Biden administration's failure thus far to reach out to them to discuss prioritizing the #FreedomToVoteAct. 3/
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13 Dec
The #FreedomToVoteAct would do all of these things, plus require that all in person voters have the option to mark their ballots by hand with a pen. #HandMarkedPaperBallots #PenAndPaper 1/ congress.gov/bill/117th-con…
The #FreedomToVoteAct’s provisions for automatic & same day voter registration are also crucial to election security bc voter registration systems & electronic poll books (used at the polls to confirm voter registrations) are very vulnerable to hacking! 2/ politico.com/news/2020/08/3…
Graphic in post 1 by @representus. 3/
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