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    CANIWEARYOURHATMichael Harriot
    9/10/18 12:35pm

    Also why cant we change the voting day to a Sunday or Sunday instead of a weekday. That alone would increase voter participation the way the convenience of voting by mail has.

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      chuckfarmerCANIWEARYOURHAT
      9/10/18 1:42pm

      or a national voting day holiday where everyone gets the day off to vote, in case they did not / could not vote in early voting.

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      Ms.Moonchuckfarmer
      9/10/18 2:43pm

      The Republicans definitely would not want that to happen because this would help people vote. If every eligible voter turned up I don’t think the Republicans would win any election ever again without compromising their no taxes for the rich/no healthcare for anyone/anti-worker/everything for the rich stance. Who would they be then?

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    JustMy2CentsMichael Harriot
    9/10/18 12:21pm

    I’m going to say this as nicely as I can. Black people(and probably any minority) do NOT care enough to commit voter fraud! We go in. We vote. We go about our day.

    We don’t even break out into hysteria or fear tactics like others do during election season and when it comes to voting.

    I have read news articles about people knowingly voting twice and each time that person was a republican. At least one of those times that person was campaign official or worked for the republican party.

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      BeardedVikingJustMy2Cents
      9/10/18 1:20pm

      That’s what is so ridiculous. Every time there is proof....REAL PROOF...of voter fraud, it is embittered Republicans that feel no remorse for doing it. From what they believe, they think that there is rampant fraud, so why should the be prosecuted for it.

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    Minimum MausMichael Harriot
    9/10/18 1:28pm

    Republicans hate democracy and they hate black people. Put the two together and it really gets them worked up.

    They’re also able to read the numbers and they know that they are minority rulers. They know that Al Gore and Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. They know that they control the Senate because rural white voters have an outsized voice. They know they control the House because of radical gerrymandering (and despite that are about to lose it). That the only way that they can ensure they keep power is by destroying democracy is fine to them, and getting to hurt black voters is the icing on the cake.

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    The Ghost of James Madison's Rage BonerMichael Harriot
    9/10/18 12:58pm

    There’s also the fact that when the ACLU sued Kobach over his voter purges and he had to back up his claims in court, he couldn’t do it. When he and Heritage Foundation troglodyte Hans von Spakovsky had to testify under oath about what they were doing, they had to walk back literally every significant claim they had made about voter fraud - because they couldn’t produce any evidence of it.

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      KarynThe Ghost of James Madison's Rage Boner
      9/10/18 10:55pm

      And the judge sent Korbach to a remedial law class for it.

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    FauxcusedMichael Harriot
    9/10/18 12:16pm

    There is no conspiracy.

    It does not meet your definition.

    It is not a SMALL group of people doing this....

    *cough*

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    ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< 2 Woke 2 TokeMichael Harriot
    9/10/18 12:06pm

    The term for this is “conspiracy fact.”

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      RalphieDC╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< 2 Woke 2 Toke
      9/10/18 3:14pm

      Let’s stay scientific here, it is now the Law of Minority Voter Fraud Conspiracy!

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< 2 Woke 2 TokeRalphieDC
      9/10/18 3:18pm

      The Law for short.

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    IJUSTWANNANOTGETBANNEDMichael Harriot
    9/10/18 2:45pm

    This is not a “conspiracy theory” or even a “conspiracy,” really. It’s just a part of the Republican orthodoxy and I think everyone with a brain knows about it. Use whatever means necessary to reduce black votes that you can get away with. They didn’t go into a smoke filled room to figure this out or make some agreement. It is just a natural part of the party and what they do. No discussion was even necessary.

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    Squib308Michael Harriot
    9/10/18 4:43pm

    I don’t really understand how/why all the states are able to make different rules & procedures for voting & registering voters. Isn’t voting a right that should be consistent and equal across all the states? I’m not for more government or bigger government or having the federal government more involved in my life than it has to be, but I find myself wondering why the federal government isn’t the one and only creator and implementer of the voting process?

    States rights?

    Nahh, it’s probably just a certain type of politician, of which there are many, really do want each state to try to suppress the vote as much as they can get away with, harder to deal with #x different states each doing different things to make it all confused.

    @#%! it. The current implementation of ‘democracy’ in our government is depressing me. Or maybe it’s society as a whole. 

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    MisterPigginsMichael Harriot
    9/10/18 10:09pm

    Putting this article in my back pocket for later. Good work as usual. I didn’t know about East St. Louis either.

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      KarynMisterPiggins
      9/10/18 10:54pm

      What they did in East St. Louis wasn’t the best thing the US Army has ever done, but they didn’t test a biological weapon. They used zinc cadmium sulfide as a marker for how a biological weapon *might* be used—how would particles disperse, in what kinds of weather, around what kinds of industry. It’s a stable compound, and at the time had not been shown to be unsafe for humans. It still hasn’t, although full research is a little slim.

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK233549/

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      MisterPigginsKaryn
      9/10/18 11:47pm

      From the CBS article:

      Now, new research is raising greater concern about the implications of those tests. St. Louis Community College-Meramec sociology professor Lisa Martino-Taylor’s research has raised the possibility that the Army performed radiation testing by mixing radioactive particles with the zinc cadmium sulfide, though she concedes there is no direct proof.

      But her report, released late last month, was troubling enough that both U.S. senators from Missouri wrote to Army Secretary John McHugh demanding answers.

      Aides to Sens. Claire McCaskill and Roy Blunt said they have received no response. Army spokesman Dave Foster declined an interview request from The Associated Press, saying the Army would first respond to the senators.

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    BiturbowagonMichael Harriot
    9/17/18 10:21pm

    These are skills—and the ethos—that the Jim Crow-supporting Dixiecrats brought over to the Republican Party as part of the Southern Strategy.

    It doesn’t sound right to call it a conspiracy. It’s policy. 

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