#votersupression — Public Fediverse posts
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@gooba42 Yes, and #VoterSupression will ensure that #Trump friendly candidates will win in key elections.
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#Whistleblower Says #Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on #VotingByMail
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
Chris Cameron
By Chris Cameron
Reporting from Washington
Sept. 1, 2026Excerpt: "A U.S. Postal Service official has alleged that the agency is moving forward with a 'secretive, rushed' effort to carry out President Trump’s order exerting federal control over mail voting, despite a court order blocking those plans.
"The official filed a whistle-blower report, published on Tuesday morning by the office of Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, asserting that the 'risky and haphazard' implementation of Mr. Trump’s order could lead to a 'catastrophic failure' in the mail ballot system ahead of this year’s #MidtermElections. The report said that the agency had planned to complete the new digital system overseeing mail ballots by Sept. 1.
" 'Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all,' the official said in the report, which was prepared with the assistance of #WhistleblowerAid, a nonprofit group that represents people seeking to expose potential lawbreaking.
Speaking to reporters by phone on Monday, Mr. Blumenthal said of the report that 'the main takeaway for me is that the Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans. One-third of all Americans cast their ballots by mail, and the #USPS puts all of their votes at risk.'
"A Postal Service official declined to comment on the record."
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/us/politics/whistle-blower-voting-by-mail.htmlArchived version:
https://archive.ph/IJg8U#USPol #Elections2026 #Fascism #USElections #Trump #StealingElections #VoterSupression #TrumpIsAFascist #VoterDisenfranchisement #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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SEN #OSSOFF GETS IT.
The reason #Felon47 blew up the bipartisan Housing Relief Bill "until Congress passes the "SAVE Act" #VoterSupression bill is b/c HE KNOWS if a #Democratic majority is elected in November, we will open investigations and send his ass to prison.
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Correct. His #1 priority is staying out of prison. And that demands massive Democratic #VoterSupression.
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"The Silent Majority" is a ruse that some politicians have created to create the perception that they have more public support than they actually do.
"You didn't get enough votes in the preliminary polls. How are you going to win the election?"
"Oh, I have the support of the majority. They're just... silent. They like to suffer in silence, and so they don't show up in polls. They are my base though. They are the strong, silent, hard-working people who registered to vote and will vote for me in the election."
This is a lie! In a Democracy, people are empowered to either vote, or abstain from voting, intentionally.
In reality, there is "The Silenced Majority", an underclass of poor people, some of them homeless, who are deliberately kept disenfranchised. There are so many systemic hurdles that prevent them from voting; paperwork to register to vote ( which marginalized people may not have ), or the sheer struggle of daily survival on the street. Being able to vote is a luxury one cannot afford, if one is fatigued from sleeping outside, not getting proper meals, and healthcare, let alone reliable information about the elections, candidates, public issues, and the solutions each platform promises. When a body is tired hungry, sleep deprived, stressed from not having regular showers or healthcare, the mind is not functioning well. Their executive functioning is so impaired, that voting to express one's preferences as a co-equal citizen of a Democracy, is a far cry. A homeless person is looking for their immediate needs, the next meal, a toilet, someplace to rest/sleep safely, medicine / medical care, and sometimes, an angry fix. They could not vote if they wanted to.
These people are kept down, because their suffering serves as a visible example to the middle class. The message to the middle class is - be a good worker, tolerate a toxic workplace, a job that slowly kills you, and don't ask for more. Obey the law, and cooperate with the police. If you fall out of line, you could become homeless like that person on the street you walk past every day. Enjoy your little material comforts, your bread and circuses ( pizza & football ), watch TV and media, and stay entertained. Be grateful to your capitalist masters, and don't unionize.
The upper class throws just enough crumbs from their table to make the middle class into happy slaves with Stockholm Syndrome, loyal to their bosses, anti-union and bourgeois in their political mindset, led around like sheep by mainstream media, supporting military spending and war, from being fed a steady diet of nationalistic propaganda. They often think that the system is fair, media tells the truth, cops protect them, courts deliver Justice, government means them well, and wars are fought for their benefit. They might look on the lower class, the homeless, with contempt, calling them lazy drunks and addicts, ungrateful and unpatriotic. Or they might throw them some pocket change to soothe their own malaise.
"Football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizons of their minds. They were easy to control."
~ George Orwell.
This is how even well meaning voters are turned into bourgeoisie bootlickers, pawns of the elite, security guards, soldiers, lawyers, accountants, clerks, janitors, maids, delivery people, burger flippers, or workers filling any number of menial or meaningless roles, for little pay, with the illusion of freedom, sold on the ideals of nationalism, without feeling much solidarity with the homeless, and without a thought of standing up for their rights.
This is a Fake Democracy, a rigged system, political theater put on for the middle class, by the upper class.
This Divide & Rule strategy of the elite is what maintained the hierarchical pyramid of proto-democratic society.
What is the Matrix?
#Freedom #Democracy #Vote #Voting #Politics #Society #EqualRights #Justice #police #law #elite #SocialJustice #VoterSupression #war #peace #TheMatrix #ClassWarfare #homeless
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@georgetakei
I keep thinking how, after invading #Iraq under false pretenses, and destroying the economy via exploding gas prices, Voters were so angry they elected Obama with a #SuperMajority in the Senate.#Felon47 is TEN TIMES WORSE (at least #Dubya wasn't a flagrant criminal), and yet, despite that, due to all the #GOP #Gerrymandering and #VoterSupression, I'm not confident #Democrats will retake the Senate in November. 😞
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@SuperSpaceFan @TalktoBeverley
I honestly believe nothing short of a MASSIVE #BlueTsunami that even rampant #Gerrymandering and #VoterSupression #Disenfranchisement can't overcome will put a stop to the spread of this #Trumpism Disease and show the world the #racists & #grifting political #ConMen aren't winning, relegating them to the dustbin of history. -
#Trump starts an unnecessary war at the behest of Israel and the US Israeli lobby that he now doesn’t seem to know how to win or end. So he totally tires of the #IranWar and appears now obsessed with his #ballroom, #VoterSupression and the continuing campaign of vengeance against his perceived enemies. After telling us that taxpayers wouldn’t pay a dime for his ornate, gilded ballroom, he now asks for a billion dollars to fund the project. Uh-huh. The #Republicans war has already cost 14 American lives, hundreds of injured and cost us $25 billion. Not to mention our depleted arsenal. There’s no end in sight - so more of our resources and our $$ down the drain. This at a time when the average American is suffering a severe #affordability crisis and the #TrumpRegime is cutting funding for basic services and our safety net. This is crazy stuff. What’s worse is our descent into #billionaire designed & funded #fascism. At the end of the day, #RepublicansDidThis to us. Remember in November! #USPol #USPolitics
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I wonder how many Republican women have passports, versus Democrats, versus independents.
Which group would be disenfranchised more?
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"This is a government that doesn’t want to afford some people their constitutional rights. The burden of ensuring that it does falls upon all of us. Peaceful protest, functioning courts, members of Congress who insist of doing oversight in immigration facilities—all of these things matter."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #Republicans #VoterSupression #voters #election
/3https://joycevance.substack.com/p/judge-boasbergs-most-recent-decision
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"The November midterms will hand Trump his ass on a platter, so he is doing everything a fascist can do to stop them."
~ Sabrina Haake
#Trump #Republicans #VoterSupression #voters #election
/2https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/attacking-the-vote-is-a-sign-of-fear
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"Although the Constitution is quite clear that it is Congress, and Congress alone, that can make laws, today his social media account announced he intends to change the nation’s voting laws all by himself."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Republicans #VoterSupression #voters #election
/1https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-13-2026
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#Indiana #Republicans defy #Trump & reject his #House #redistricting push in the state
Indiana’s Republican-led Senate decisively rejected a redrawn congressional map Thursday that would have favored their party, defying months of pressure from Trump & delivering a stark setback to…[rig] next year’s #midterms.
The vote was overwhelmingly against the proposed redistricting, with more Republicans opposing than supporting the measure.
#law #VoterSupression #VotingRights
https://apnews.com/article/indiana-lawmakers-redistricting-final-vote-80e3e546fc7acec4a7bd7cd110787375 -
The fact that there are fundie far right Christians who literally think women shouldn't have the right to vote is so unhindged. Imposing your religion upon the masses is fascism, plain and simple. Plus this is anti-democratic as fuck.
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We fucking told you, etc., etc.
'Not a coincidence': Report exposes Project 2025 plan to 'silence voters'
https://www.rawstory.com/project-2025-census/#VoterSupression #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #AmericanFascistParty #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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"This is an effort to change the very basic nature of American democracy. This is the institution of American authoritarianism, and it is happening right here in front of us. And if we don’t call it that, and if we don’t recognize that all of these things are tied together, we are going to be powerless to stop it."
~ David Daley
#Trump #Republicans #VoterSupression #redistricting #MailInBallots #gerrymandering #elections
/4https://newrepublic.com/article/199237/trump-accidentally-lets-slip-dark-truth-plot-rig-midterms
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"If Democratic leaders were so unelectable, the Republicans would not go to such lengths to rig district voting maps and keep Democratic voters from the polls. Indeed, while voter fraud is vanishingly rare, the Republicans are using the specter of it to engage in election fraud: manipulating the mechanics of an election to favor one side over another.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Republicans #VoterSupression #redistricting #MailInBallots #gerrymandering
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“At bottom, Trump’s rant clearly signals his intent to use presidential power in every conceivable way he can to swing the midterm elections against Democrats.”
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #Republicans #VoterSupression #redistricting #MailInBallots #gerrymandering #elections
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“Trump’s claims are so far from anything even remotely legal or constitutional that I doubt even the corrupted federal judiciary will have much truck with it.”
~ Josh Marshall
#Trump #Republicans #VoterSupression #redistricting #MailInBallots #gerrymandering #elections
/1https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-elections-and-the-oppositions-strategic-depth
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Trump DOJ sues North Carolina over election claims similar to Jefferson Griffin lawsuit
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The lawsuit, filed by the administration of Republican President Donald Trump, echoes some of the same claims that fellow Republican Jefferson Griffin made in his unsuccessful attempt to overturn the results of the 2024 election for a seat on the state Supreme Court that was won by Democratic Justice Allison Riggs.
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Allison Riggs, after a six-month battle, sworn in to North Carolina Supreme Court:
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“This is a victory for North Carolina voters and the rule of law,” Riggs wrote on social media last week after a federal judge ordered her 2024 victory to be made official. “But we must keep fighting to elect judges who will put the Constitution over party and personal ambition.”
---#uspol #ncpol #sconc #NorthCarolina #AllisonRiggs #JeffersonGriffin #NCSupremeCourt #VoterSupression
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Finally! Griffin concedes:
Republican concedes long-unsettled North Carolina court election to Democratic incumbent
#uspol #ncpol #sconc #NorthCarolina #AllisonRiggs #JeffersonGriffin #NCSupremeCourt #VoterSupression
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DOJ Won’t Appeal Judge’s Order Against Trump’s #AntiVoting Decree
The #DOJ does not plan to appeal a judge’s order blocking President Donald Trump from adding a proof of citizenship requirement on a federal registration form, according to a court filing made Monday by plaintiffs in the case
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@GeraldKutney
It's important to remember that despite rampant #VoterSupression, #TheOrangeMenace only won a "plurality" (not majority) of the Popular Vote. -
@br00t4c
A legislative loss that large with no economic or wartime justification and so far outside the "normal" range SCREAMS rampant #VoterSupression (or worse.)(Image: eVote hacking contest winners in 2018.)