We have a right to bear arms, but we don’t have a right to fair elections?
The solution is left as an exercise to the reader.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2024
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They just don’t seem to be able to not drive everything there, do they.
Okay MAGAs. You continuously demanded it.
Something about "shall not be infringed", and they couldn't care less about anything else.
Well the alternative to fair elections is political violence. Choose wisely, the people enacting that violence could be a wildcard for any ideology.
Hmm, don't see anywhere in the Constitution where elected officials have a "right to life". Your move NC.
Republicans haven't wanted fair elections in decades.
Or… ever…
Well, unless you count the time they used to be the democratic party before everything was switched.
In a fair election that everyone voted in, there wouldn't be any republicans. They have to cheat to be in power, what does that say?
I wish I had neighbors like yours.
The Stop the Steal gang is inconsolable
I'm sure that it will be fixed after this election and broken again before the next. The Supreme Court made sure of that back in 2022 with the Merrill v Milligan verdict where they admited that the racially gerrymandered districts were illegal, but allowed to be used anyways so long as it's relatively close to an election.
When an election is close at hand, the rules of the road must be clear and settled. Late judicial tinkering with election laws can lead to disruption and to unanticipated and unfair consequences for candidates, political parties, and voters, among others.
- Brett Kavanaugh
Late judicial tinkering with election laws can lead to disruption and to unanticipated and unfair consequences for candidates, political parties, and voters, among others.
I wonder if there's anything else that'd be unfair? You know like making the votes of citizens not reflect their demographics
Boof said that?
His post-grad ghost writers (“clerks”) said that.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
B-b-b-but Democrats struggle to win elections because their base doesn't vote!