[AMV] #974 Black voter suppression

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"That's that's one of many good, good suggestions I've had," he said of lowering the cloture total from 60 to 55. Manchin went on to discuss the last time the cloture threshold was lowered, in the 1970s.

"I looked back ... when it went from 67 votes to 60 votes, and also what was happening, what made them think that it needed to change. So I'm open to looking at it, I'm just not open to getting rid of the filibuster, that's all," he said.

Manchin acknowledged that publicly he had drawn a line at 60, but said that he was open to other ideas. "Right now, 60 is where I planted my flag, but as long as they know that I'm going to protect this filibuster, we're looking at good solutions," he said. "I think, basically, it should be [that] 41 people have to force the issue versus the 60 that we need in the affirmative. So find 41 in the negative. ... I think one little change that could be made right now is basically anyone who wants to filibuster ought to be required to go to the floor and basically state your objection and why you're filibustering and also state what you think needs to change that'd fix it, so you would support it. To me, that's pretty constructive."

As an example, Manchin said that he was prepared to specify his objections to S. 1, the For the People Act. In the voting rights and democracy reform bill, he said, he opposed automatic voter registration because some rural voting locations don't have internet access to check a voter's eligibility. He also opposed a provision in the bill that restricted a state's ability to purge voter rolls, which he said would make the rolls less reliable. And he expressed reservations related to some of the campaign finance reform provisions, arguing they needed to apply equally to labor and business.

"I'm telling you why I'm against something. So I'm going to send to [No Labels leaders] Margaret [White] and to Nancy [Jacobson], everybody on the voting thing, what I support, and the voting changes that need to be made and what I oppose in S. 1. So at least I'm saying I'm against it for this reason, and here's the things I think can make a piece of legislation better. I think we all should do that. We should be responsible for that," he said.

Those specific objections, notably, were absent from a second Charleston Gazette-Mail opinion column written by Manchin last week, stating his opposition to the For the People Act. In the piece, Manchin argued that the bill was done in a "partisan manner" and that he objected to such a sweeping bill that is "solely supported by one party."

The column made no mention of Manchin's specific concerns about preserving the ability to purge voter rolls and same-day registration -- the objections that were given to No Labels and its audience of wealthy donors.

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Op donderdag 17 juni 2021 16:36 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:
De ACA heeft weer een horde genomen:
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7-2 is een behoorlijk overtuigend met een conservatieve meerderheid in het SC. Dat is toch wel een doodsteek voor verdere pogingen om de ACA onderuit te halen.

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In the latest development in the partisan Republican “audit” of Arizona presidential votes, voting system data has been taken to a secret hideout in Montana.

An unsupervised driver transported copies of ballot data in a truck to a cabin in the community of Bigfork in northwest Montana, several media outlets reported.

The state Senate Republican liaison has “confirmed that copies of voting system data was sent to a ‘lab’ in Montana,” an observer wrote earlier this month on an “SOS” website set up by the office of Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D). “He did not specify what security measures were in place, or what the lab in Montana will do with the data, or how long it will be in possession of the copies,” added the note.

Hobbs, who’s running for governor, called the Montana operation “madness.” She said audit organizers promised a “transparent” operation with cameras. “There was no camera in a cabin in Montana,” she said.

“You can’t make this stuff up,” Hobbs told CNN, which refers to the operation as a “fraudit.” “If it wasn’t happening right in front of our eyes, we wouldn’t believe it was happening.” (Check out the video above.)

Arizona Republic journalist Jen Fifield discovered that the cabin now holding the records is the residence of Ben Cotton, founder of digital company CyFIR, which is a subcontractor of the company running the recount. CyFIR’s parent company, Cyber Technologies, also run by Cotton, appears to have the same address in the Montana woods, which was tracked down by CNN this week.

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Op zondag 20 juni 2021 00:09 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Helaasch voor de familie.

Overigens als dit het enige bericht is van de afgelopen 24 uur.
Dat waren nog eens tijden, bijv. 1 jaar geleden.

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Op zondag 20 juni 2021 00:31 schreef SnertMetChoco het volgende:

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Mja, de reden dat hij uitgejouwd is, is klaarblijkelijk dat hij weigerde om de verkiezingsuitslag niet te aanvaarden. Ik weet niet hoe vrolijk je daarover moet zijn.