ariberman.bsky.social
National voting rights correspondent Mother Jones. Author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It and Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
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NY State Sen Michelle Hinchey gave powerful speech at No Kings protest in New Paltz today. “When we are watching the very fabric of our country unravel, this is the moment in history where we will look back on and say where were you when? Where were you when we were watching dictators take over?"
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"This case concerns whether the federal Constitution permits a state to alter the rules of an election after the fact and apply those changes retroactively to only a select group of voters," writes Judge Richard Myers, a Trump appointee. "The answer is no."
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In addition to requiring proof of citizenship documents to register to vote that millions of Americans don’t have, SAVE Act requires voters to register or re-register IN PERSON at election offices. That's absolutely crazy. Some voters might have to drive 8 hours just to update their registration
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Greta Bedekovics @americanprogress.bsky.social says SAVE Act would disenfranchise 69 million married women who changed name & can’t use birth certificate to register to vote calling it “a marriage penalty” that “completely ignores the implications of the 19th Amendment”
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“If the SAVE Act were enacted, this would be the first federal voter suppression bill in recent memory, and possibly ever,” says Eliza Sweren-Becker of @brennancenter.bsky.social. “It’s a five-alarm fire for voters & election officials.”
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Key points:
1/No precedent to changing election rules after election
2/Griffin hasn’t found single example of ineligible voting
3/Only challenging absentee/early votes + ballots in Dem counties
4/Only challenging votes in his race (not Trump's win)
5/Two recounts already affirmed Riggs victory
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@benwikler.bsky.social: "Tonight, Democrats got up off the mat and fought back...Let the lesson of Wisconsin’s election ring out across the country: hope is not lost, democracy can yet survive, and the voice of the American people will not be silenced.”