Just a reminder of one of the biggest reasons the fascists are in power, voter suppression & they will be doing it again

[yaesu]

only without any restraints, with the full support of the fascist courts and government IMO.

Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won.
Here are the numbers...
by Greg Palast

Trump lost. That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes.

Here are key numbers:

4,776,706 voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls according to US Elections Assistance Commission data.
By August of 2024, for the first time since 1946, self-proclaimed “vigilante” voter-fraud hunters challenged the rights of 317,886 voters. The NAACP of Georgia estimates that by Election Day, the challenges exceeded 200,000 in Georgia alone.
No less than 2,121,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified for minor clerical errors (e.g. postage due).
At least 585,000 ballots cast in-precinct were also disqualified.
1,216,000 “provisional” ballots were rejected, not counted.
3.24 million new registrations were rejected or not entered on the rolls in time to vote.

https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

[gab13by13]

1. Is voter suppression

a nice way of saying cheating?

[BadgerKid]

3. It parallels tax avoidance vs. tax evasion.

Suppression is legal depending on how it's done, but cheating is illegal.

Before I get jumped on for implying some suppression tactics are legal, I observe that because of free speech, candidates can (and do) lie and misrepresent. It's up to others to refute.

[Frasier Balzov]

2. Clinging to the incumbency.

That was the common wisdom at the time.

Suppressing challenge until the bottom fell out.

Lesson learned?

[NameAlreadyTaken]

4. And they will never stop cheating.

Cheating is the only way they can win.

[ABC123Easy]

5. Wow

Thank you for that post. Eye opening.

[betsuni]

6. Voter suppression is so important and rarely mentioned as one of the reasons elections are lost by a whisker.

Or a couple of whiskers.

People would rather spent their time creating reasons to blame Democrats and be mad at them for not coming to their house to personally tuck them into beddy-boo with their favorite blankie and ... OMG! this cocoa isn't hot enough! -- centrists used the big marshmallows, not the mini ones I like, this cocoa is going in the wrong direction I demand change from the status quo *weeps loudly until mommy comes and scolds the mean old Democrats for ignoring the weeping class and being corporatists beholden to Big Marshmallow and not the mini ones we like*.

[RockCreek]

7. KnR

and KnR and KnR
Discussion of these facts needs to be ongoing.
They cannot be minimized or forgotten.