Think 2016 was a bad election? Just wait.
Jason Kander the former Missouri Secretary of State, and of Help America Vote, calls The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, the “Presidential Commission on Implemented Disenfranchisement for the Election Committee of the President.” He has worked personally with vice chairman, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach at the National Association of Secretary of States and saw where he called Obama’s Presidential Commission on Election Integrity a joke and that he would never serve on such a commission. Ohhh, how the pot calls the kettle black. Kander feels that the marching orders of the group are to make voting more difficult for people of color.
President Donald Trump is asking for voter names, addresses, party affiliation and voting records, and more from all 50 states, part of an investigation into voter fraud by a commission he launched last month. 49 states refused to comply with that request: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/30/politics/kris-kobach-voter-commission-rolls/index.html.
Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748)
A new study shows how voter-ID laws decreased turnout among African-American and Democratic voters.
By Ari BermanTwitter MAY 9, 2017The Nation:
https://www.thenation.com/article/wisconsins-voter-id-law-suppressed-200000-votes-trump-won-by-23000/
Russians used 1,000 agents and bots to generate millions of messages for Trump and against Hillary Clinton. We may never know how this influenced the election. Further there is talk in September 2017 that the Russians supplied the Trump campaign with the data on which states to target. Maybe using Clinton campaign messages showing they thought Penn, Michigan, Wisconsin were “safe.”
I felt so betrayed by Nixon (I was 14 in 1972—how could an American President do WaterGate? But now I expect this illegal behavior of the GOP, and more-so of the “outsider” Trump). Then Nixon was pardoned by Ford. In all the election meddling of Republicans there has never been a permanent statement made by the country that this is wrong and needed to be stopped. Admiral Poindexter and Colonel Oliver North were pardoned by Reagan for Iran-Contra. Scooter Libby pardoned by Bush for falsifying the Iraq War. No one has paid the ultimate price: execution for treason. This is why I believe that General Michael Flynn should be executed and the entire Trump family exiled as a postscript to history: you can no longer get away with things in politics. This is service to the country not lining your own pockets with Russian Mob money doled out by Putin.
Michael Flynn can be executed for Treason, because he is a military guy—he meets the legal definition of a Benedict Arnold (everyone else falls to the legal level of sedition or “Conspiracy to Commit Sedition.” He is retired but on his ten year call-back provision—which means he is in effect “active duty.”
Watch Ari Berman Explain How Voter Suppression Handed Wisconsin to Trump
He also breaks down Thomas Farr’s history of defending voter ID laws.
MOTHER JONESOCT. 23, 2017 7:42 AM
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/10/watch-ari-berman-explain-how-voter-suppression-handed-wisconsin-to-trump/#
23,000 votes lost in city of Madison alone—Trump only wins by 22,000—you do the math!
Also see:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/voter-suppression-wisconsin-election-2016/
How the GOP Rigs Elections
With a combination of gerrymandering, voter-ID laws and dark money, Republicans have tipped the political scales in their favor. Will it be enough to keep Democrats from claiming victory in 2018?
By Ari Berman
January 23, 2018
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gop-rigs-elections-gerrymandering-voter-id-laws-dark-money-w515664
Greg Palast reports says that 7 million voters were removed from the rolls in 2016 by the 32 Republican Secretaries of State—most People of Color. The GOP SOS were pretty much aided by Koch Brothers money also used in Gerrymandering. Michigan won by Trump by 10,000 also had 75% of the voting machines removed by Detroit—voting ended at midnight but many Blacks had already exited without voting. So lots of cheating going on.