@rbreich
It bears noting that #Texas did ALL 3.
(restricted Vote by Mail, has #VoterID, and regularly purges the voter roll (I believe after every 5-6 years.)
The state limited #Absentee#Ballot drop boxes to one per county... including Harris County's 4.5 million people (home to #Houston's 2M people)... to a single drop box at Reliant Stadium on the SW side of town.
"If #voting didn't matter, they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you from doing it." - Me
How R.F.K. Jr. Got on the Michigan Ballot, With Only Two Votes
The independent candidate persuaded a tiny party to give him its line on the ballot in a key 2024 battleground state, sparing him a costly, arduous organizing effort.
For 22 years, Doug Dern, a bankruptcy lawyer with a small practice outside Detroit,
has almost single-handedly kept the 🔸Natural Law Party 🔸on Michigan’s ballot.
👉Each cycle, the party runs a handful of candidates in obscure state races to meet Michigan’s minimum polling requirements for minor parties.
“Keep that #ballot#access,” Mr. Dern, 62, said in an interview on Friday.
“Because someday, a candidate is going to come along who’s going to be perfect for it. Someday, the third parties are going to be hot.”
That day may have come.
In gaining access to the ballot in Michigan, a critical swing state in the 2024 election, Mr. #Kennedy has injected new uncertainty into what promises to be one of the most closely contested presidential races in history.
And 💥he did it without having to gather a single signature, 💥avoiding a costly and arduous organizing effort, not to mention the possibility of having to fight court challenges to those signatures.
With the #Florida Supreme Court’s decision Mon night upholding an existing #15wkAbortionBan & allowing a strict new #6wkAbortionBan to take effect in 30 days, the court has cut off nearly ALL #abortion access across the #South, where ALL other states have either implemented similar #AbortionBans or #outlawed abortion entirely since #SCOTUS overturned #RoeVWade.
The FL justices issued a separate ruling Mon that greenlighted an initiative to put abortion on the #ballot in Nov.
#Police in Plymouth Township, #Michigan are investigating whether a lighting system that was set up by a mystery person to flash when someone approached a #ballot#DropBox was an attempt to #intimidate#voters.
"…while the Court stopped short of removing Trump from the #ballot,
"they did not exonerate Donald Trump for inciting #insurrection.
"Listen, let me say that again: Trump is an insurrectionist, and the Supreme Court does not dispute that fact."
"It’s disappointing that the #Court failed to bar Trump from the ballot. This was a test for the Court, and it failed to meet the moment." - Noah Bookbinder
In a relatively brief, 13 pg opinion, accompanied by one concurrence from Justice #AmyConeyBarrett & another from the 3 #liberals on the bench, the court decided that the #Constitution leaves the question of #Trump’s disqualification to #Congress. [bullshit]
“Responsibility for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders & candidates rests w/Congress & not the States,” the Court ruled.
The ruling brings one of the most prominent efforts to hold #Trump accountable for his attempt to stay in #power after losing the #2020election to an end. #SCOTUS, in oral arguments & in its Monday opinion, went out of its way to dodge the question of whether that attempt — which culminated in the #Jan6 storming of #Congress — constituted an #insurrection.
Cowardly #SCOTUS Justices Appear Skeptical of Arguments to Kick #Trump Off State Ballots
The #SupremeCourt heard arguments about whether TFG’s attempts to subvert the #2020election#disqualify him from again holding office. Justices across the ideological spectrum questioned several aspects of a ruling from the #Colorado Supreme Court.
Some of the justices expressed skepticism toward those claims, suggesting that Trump’s lawyer was trying to parse the letter of the law beyond reason. #law
On The New Abnormal, a #podcast by #TheDailyBeast, the host interviews Amanda Carpenter of United to Protect Democracy, who says, re: Trump and the fight for #democracy >>>
“Why do we feel so tired when we have to go through this again? I think it’s helpful to remind people you are tired, because if you’ve been in the anti-Trump coalition or just, you know, the sane part of #America, you’ve been at this for almost 10 years.”
>>> “This is the third time in three elections where Donald #Trump will be on the #ballot. You have every right to be tired, but your fatigue is what Trump and his allies are absolutely banking on.”