DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 15, 2022

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What Democrats Need To Do On Voting Rights Now That Democrats Sabotaged Voting Rights Legislation.  Depressing, I know:

With the door slammed shut this week on federal legislation to create new protections for access to voting, Democrats face an electoral landscape in which they will need to spend heavily to register and mobilize voters if they are to overcome the hodgepodge of new voting restrictions enacted by Republicans across the country.

They say it would require them to compensate by spending tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars more on voter-registration and turnout programs — funds that might otherwise have gone to promoting Democratic candidates.

“All these voter protection measures are not cheap,” said Raymond Paultre, executive director of the Florida Alliance, a statewide network of progressive donors. “This is going to draw a lot of resources away from candidates, campaigns and organizations.”

Speaking Of Which–Texas Rejects Tons Of Ballot Requests Due To New Voting Restrictions.

Election officials in one of the most populous counties in Texas have rejected about half of the applications for ballots because of the state’s new voting restrictions enacted by Republicans last year.

The clerk’s office in Travis County, the fifth-most-populous county and home to the capital of Austin, cited the law’s recent changes to identification requirements in rejecting about half of the 700 mail-in applications.

Other county clerk’s offices in the state, including those in Harris and Bexar counties, also are rejecting applications that fail to meet the new standard, or in which information doesn’t match the voter data on record.

Texas Republicans last year passed the bill establishing new limits on voting over the objections of Democrats, part of a wave of efforts by GOP-led states to impose new restrictions. Many in the Republican Party echoed former president Donald Trump’s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election in arguing for the new restrictions.

Shit’s real, folks.

FBI’s Explanations Of Its January 6 Failures Revealed As Utter Bullshit.  Excellent reporting. A must-read.

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  1. jason330 says:

    “They say it would require them to compensate by spending tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars more on voter-registration and turnout programs”

    Sounds like the radical moderates handed the DC-based Dem consultants a big win.

  2. bamboozer says:

    Not a cop fan but have worked with a few at day gigs, they all said the same thing: Want to really Eff It Up? Get the FBI involved, as noted by needs to retire Grassley this is not an infrequent event.

  3. puck says:

    If you have been depending on the child tax credit being deposited into your account on the 15th every month since July, that has ended and today is your first month without that deposit.

    Send your thanks to Senators Manchin and Sinema:

    https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article257290192.html