Having several months ago slammed Maine's Secretary of State, Matt Dunlap for his wild over-estimate at the cost of running a ranked-choice election, I feel obligated to say that with his exposing the lies of the Trump Administrations and the Kansas Republican-fascists' tool, Chris Kobach, over their voter suppression efforts, almost everything is forgiven.
Matt Dunlap agreed to be part of the phony Trump regime "election integrity commission" only to find that Kobach and others, including Mike Pence, wouldn't let him see the official documents that they lied about to claim they'd documented more than 8,000 instances of things like double voting.
After Dunlap sued to get access to those records, he reviewed all of them and published them, proving that the whole thing was a lie.
It is related to yesterday's post in that if you have to corrupt a putative democracy, one of the ways to do that is by making sure that people who might vote against you never get to vote. That's been the basis of the slave-power-Northern-financial establishment preventing democracy since the founding of the country, the entire history of the country since then could be written as the struggle for people who weren't allowed to vote to be represented.
There is a direct line from the infamous 3/5th provision to empower slave-holders to these efforts by Republican-fascists to suppress the votes of Black People, Latinos, poor People, and others who aren't as likely to vote for Republican-fascists. The Trump regime is using the same lies that were used by D.W. Griffith in Birth of a Nation, the movie that revived the terror group, the KKK. When you see Chris Kobach's round face, when you see Mike Pence, you're seeing people who are doing the same thing as is always done, telling the same old lies that worked to disenfranchise and oppress people for going on 250 years.
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