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/
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/
The screenshot in post 1 is an excerpt from my draft book. 3/
7/ About Von Sapovsky’s role in the faulty purge that likely handed Bush his victory. He was rewarded by Bush with a position in the DOJ. newyorker.com/magazine/2004/…
8/ Naturally, Trump put Von Sapovsky on his phony “voting integrity” commission in 2017. The other people on the commission were also sketchy. Remember Ken Blackwell??? brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…
11/ The #FreedomToVoteAct would also mitigate the risk of voters being improperly removed from the voter rolls (remember the hacked voter registration systems & e-pollbook vendor in 2016???) by requiring that jurisdictions offer provisional ballots. This law is crucial.
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Trump-installed Post Master General Louis DeJoy (who donated $700k to Trump’s convention) slowed vote by mail, so voters used drop boxes, so the GOP has decided to drastically curtail drop boxes. Get it? 1/
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.
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/…
😳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/
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/