DoomsdaysCW<p>What Is A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PollTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PollTax</span></a>? Definition and Examples</p><p>By Robert Longley, July 27, 2022</p><p>Excerpt: "In the United States, the origin of the poll tax—and the controversy surrounding it—is associated with the agrarian unrest of the 1880s and 1890s, which culminated in the rise of the Populist Party in the Western and the Southern states. The Populists, representing low-income farmers, gave Democrats in these areas the only serious competition that they had experienced since the end of Reconstruction. The competition led both parties to see the need to attract Black citizens back into politics and to compete for their vote. As the Democrats defeated the Populists, they amended their state constitutions or drafted new ones to include various discriminatory disfranchising devices. When the payment of the poll tax was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackPeople</span></a> and often <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoorWhitePeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoorWhitePeople</span></a>, unable to afford the tax, were denied the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightToVote</span></a>. </p><p>"During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era in the United States, the former states of the Confederacy repurposed the poll tax explicitly to prevent formerly enslaved <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> from voting. Although the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/14thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>14thAmendment</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/15thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>15thAmendment</span></a> [s] gave Black men full <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/citizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citizenship</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VotingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRights</span></a>, the power to determine what constituted a qualified voter was left to the states. Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthernStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthernStates</span></a> quickly exploited this legal loophole. At its 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi imposed a $2.00 poll tax and early registration as a requirement for voting. This had catastrophic results for the Black electorate. Whereas approximately 87,000 Black citizens registered to vote in 1869, representing almost 97% of the eligible voting-age population, fewer than 9,000 of them registered to vote after the state’s new constitution took effect in 1892. </p><p>"Between 1890 and 1902, all eleven former <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> states imposed some form of a poll tax to deter Black Americans from voting. The tax, which ranged from $1 to $2, was prohibitively expensive for most Black sharecroppers, who earned their wages in crops, not currency. Beyond the cost, voter registration and tax payment offices were usually located in public spaces designed to intimidate potential voters, like courthouses and police stations.</p><p>"The southern states also enacted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JimCrowLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JimCrowLaws</span></a> intended to reinforce <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RacialSegregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RacialSegregation</span></a> and restrict Black voting rights. Along with the poll tax, most of these states also imposed literacy tests, which required potential voters to read and interpret in writing sections of the state constitution. So-called 'grandfather clauses' allowed a person to vote without paying the poll tax or passing the literacy test if their father or grandfather had voted before the abolition of slavery in 1865; a stipulation that automatically precluded all formerly enslaved persons. Together, the grandfather clause and the literacy tests effectively restored voting rights to poorer White voters who could not pay the poll tax, while further suppressing the Black vote.</p><p>"Poll taxes of varying stipulations lingered in Southern states well into the 20th century. While some states abolished the tax in the years after World War I, others retained it. Ratified in 1964, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/24thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>24thAmendment</span></a> to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USConstitution</span></a> declared the tax unconstitutional in federal elections. </p><p>"Specifically, the 24th Amendment states:</p><p> 'The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.'</p><p>"President Lyndon B. Johnson called the amendment a 'triumph of liberty over restriction.' 'It is a verification of people's rights, which are rooted so deeply in the mainstream of this nation's history,' he said.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a> of 1965 created significant changes in the voting status of Black Americans throughout the South. The law prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding Black Americans from voting. Before this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age Black citizens were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent. </p><p>"In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court went beyond the Twenty-fourth Amendment by ruling in the case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections. In two months in the spring of 1966, federal courts declared poll tax laws unconstitutional in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on February 9. Similar decisions soon followed in Alabama and Virginia. Mississippi's $2.00 poll tax (about $18 today) was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966."</p><p><a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definition-and-examples-5443130" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definit</span><span class="invisible">ion-and-examples-5443130</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterDisenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoterDisenfranchisement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TwentyFourthAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TwentyFourthAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FourteenthAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FourteenthAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FifteenthAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FifteenthAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoterRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LiteracyTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiteracyTests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USElections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USElections</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterSuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoterSuppression</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a></p>
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Kevin Severud :donor:<p>Fair elections?<br>In the US?<br>There never have been. </p><p>Trump absolutely did not win a fair election. He won a heavily rigged election. Take him at his own words that the election was indeed rigged; that’s the tell of a narcissist when they tattle on their own misdeeds. </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a></p>
USAJusticeWatch<p>Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship. “<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s order is likely to face legal challenges, given that the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> gives authority over <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elections</span></a> to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/states" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>states</span></a>. While <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> has the power to regulate voting — and has done so to pass such laws as the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a> — the Constitution makes clear that states have primary authority to set the “times, places and manner” for elections.” | AP News <a href="https://apnews.com/article/voting-elections-trump-executive-order-4e9edb53f47e61e241a43ceef8164022" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/voting-elec</span><span class="invisible">tions-trump-executive-order-4e9edb53f47e61e241a43ceef8164022</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Justices Seem Likely to Uphold Louisiana Map With 2 Majority-Black Districts <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/860822/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/860822/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DecisionsAndVerdicts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DecisionsAndVerdicts</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticParty</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elections</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FourteenthAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FourteenthAmendment</span></a>(USConstitution) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HouseOfRepresentatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HouseOfRepresentatives</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LawAndLegislation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawAndLegislation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NationalAssnForTheAdvancementOfColoredPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalAssnForTheAdvancementOfColoredPeople</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PoliticsAndGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticsAndGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RedistrictingAndReapportionment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RedistrictingAndReapportionment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RegistrationAndRequirements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RegistrationAndRequirements</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/StateLegislatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StateLegislatures</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a>(US) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/VotingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRights</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a>(1965)</p>
DARLENE RYAN 🇨🇦<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> regime.. “effectively gutting the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a>” ⬇️⬇️</p>
LilMikeSF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> govt case hopes to whittle down rights of <a href="https://c.im/tags/BlackVoters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackVoters</span></a> by arguing <a href="https://c.im/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a> is <a href="https://c.im/tags/Unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unconstitutional</span></a> and seeks to reverse previous civil & voting rights <a href="https://c.im/tags/CaseLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CaseLaw</span></a> </p><p>It is currently not known when the 3 judge 5th Circuit judge panel that heard the arguments will rule on the state’s appeal.</p><p><a href="https://lailluminator.com/2025/01/07/louisiana-argues-parts-of-voting-rights-act-are-unconstitutional-in-redistricting-case/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lailluminator.com/2025/01/07/l</span><span class="invisible">ouisiana-argues-parts-of-voting-rights-act-are-unconstitutional-in-redistricting-case/</span></a></p>
Eubie Drew (QOTO 🦣)<p>This is the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/DisintegrationChecklist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DisintegrationChecklist</span></a>. <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/TheChecklist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheChecklist</span></a> of what we can expect to lose in the next four years. That makes it a tool for gauging the progress of loss. 43 items. A grim countdown score in the form of a simple number: how many are still left? That is the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/DisintegrationScore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DisintegrationScore</span></a>. 43... for now.</p><p>_________________________<br>from <a href="https://absurdistwords.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">absurdistwords.bsky.social</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ThingsThatWillDisappearInTheNextFourYears" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsThatWillDisappearInTheNextFourYears</span></a> (A non-exhaustive list)</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/AbortionRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbortionRights</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Contraception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Contraception</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/NoFaultDivorce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoFaultDivorce</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ViolenceAgainstWomenAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ViolenceAgainstWomenAct</span></a> (<a href="https://qoto.org/tags/VAWA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VAWA</span></a>)<br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/CivilRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRightsAct</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> Protections<br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/BirthrightCitizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BirthrightCitizenship</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/NaturalizationProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalizationProtection</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/EnvironmentalProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalProtection</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ConsumerProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConsumerProtection</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/FraudProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FraudProtection</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/PoliceBrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceBrutality</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ConsentDecrees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConsentDecrees</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/HabeasCorpus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HabeasCorpus</span></a><br>Three <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment</span></a> <br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/GenderAffirmingCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenderAffirmingCare</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/HormoneReplacement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HormoneReplacement</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/InVitroFertilization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InVitroFertilization</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/SameSexMarriage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SameSexMarriage</span></a> <br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/InterracialMarriage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InterracialMarriage</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/AntiDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiDiscrimination</span></a> Laws<br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/WorkerSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkerSafety</span></a> Laws<br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/CollectiveBargaining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CollectiveBargaining</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/AffordableCareAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AffordableCareAct</span></a> (<a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ACA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACA</span></a>)<br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/PrisonReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrisonReform</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct</span></a> (<a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ADA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ADA</span></a>)<br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/RightToPrivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightToPrivacy</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/SeparationOfChurchAndState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeparationOfChurchAndState</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ForeignAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForeignAid</span></a> Programs<br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/PovertyPrograms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PovertyPrograms</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/PublicRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicRadio</span></a> & <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/PublicTelevision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicTelevision</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/SexualFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SexualFreedom</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/AntiSegregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiSegregation</span></a> Laws<br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/VaccineMandates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VaccineMandates</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/PublicSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicSchool</span></a> System<br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/PublicLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicLibrary</span></a> System<br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/StareDecisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StareDecisis</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ChildLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChildLabor</span></a> Laws<br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Antitrust</span></a> Laws<br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/LegalCannabis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LegalCannabis</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Pornography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pornography</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/SexWorker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SexWorker</span></a> Protections<br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/InternetFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternetFreedom</span></a><br>_________________________</p><p>Keeping track of this <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/DisintegrationChecklist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DisintegrationChecklist</span></a>, & the <br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/DisintegrationScore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DisintegrationScore</span></a>, is not a silly thing. I am not trying to <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/gamify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamify</span></a> the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/apocalypse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apocalypse</span></a>. It is a concrete measure, and if it is widely shared, it will make apparent even to the distracted the accelerating loss. A tool for those capable of caring.</p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/absurdistwords.bsky.social/post/3lb5wwj23v22u" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/absurdistword</span><span class="invisible">s.bsky.social/post/3lb5wwj23v22u</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> Will Hear <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Racial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gerrymandering</span></a> Case, with Implications for Section 2 of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a></p><p><a href="https://electionlawblog.org/?p=146997" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">electionlawblog.org/?p=146997</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Take The Near Impossible <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LiteracyTest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiteracyTest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> Used to Suppress the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackVote</span></a> (1964)</p><p>in History, Politics | October 21st, 2024 </p><p>"In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black Republican candidate to office after the Civil War, destroying the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ballots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ballots</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackVoters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackVoters</span></a> and shooting two Northern carpetbaggers. While such dramatic means of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterSuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoterSuppression</span></a> occurred often enough in the Reconstruction South, tactics of electoral exclusion refined over time, such that by the mid-twentieth century the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JimCrowSouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JimCrowSouth</span></a> relied largely on nearly impossible-to-pass literacy tests to impede free and fair elections.</p><p>"These tests, writes Rebecca Onion at Slate, were 'supposedly applicable to both white and black prospective voters who couldn’t prove a certain level of education' (typically up to the fifth grade). Yet they were 'in actuality disproportionately administered to black voters.'</p><p>"Additionally, many of the tests were rigged so that registrars could give potential voters an easy or a difficult version, and could score them differently as well. For example, the Veterans of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> Movement describes a test administered in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alabama</span></a> that is so entirely subjective that it measures the registrar’s shrewdness and cunning more than anything else.</p><p>"The test here from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> consists of questions so ambiguous that no one, whatever their level of education, can divine a 'right' or 'wrong' answer to most of them. And yet, as the instructions state, 'one wrong answer denotes failure of the test,' an impossible standard for even a legitimate exam. Even worse, voters had only ten minutes to complete the three-page, 30-question document. The Louisiana test dates from 1964, the year before the passage of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a>, which effectively put an end to these blatantly discriminatory practices." <br> <br>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openculture.com/2024/10/take-t</span><span class="invisible">he-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Disenfranchisement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterDisenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoterDisenfranchisement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterSuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoterSuppression</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Elections2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elections2024</span></a></p>
Skip Lacaze<p>We need a big enough margin so the Trump-dominated <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> can’t intervene to overturn the election. We need to hold the Senate and take back the House and a few state legislatures for at least one term to enact the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JohnRLewis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRLewis</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a>, reenact <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Roe</span></a> and guarantee all <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ReproductiveRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReproductiveRights</span></a> at the Federal level, ratify the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EqualRightsAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EqualRightsAmendment</span></a>, and balance out the biased and openly corrupt Supreme Court. 4/x <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ERA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ERA</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BlueWave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlueWave</span></a></p>
Calixthe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gerrymcgovern</span></a></span> We're so accustomed to turning on the faucet and there being groundwater, but once it's gone, it's gone. It would be great if the cash laden tech companies would seriously invest in and expand desalination, as well as wind and solar power to service these data centers. </p><p>Long rant ahead:</p><p>They are not serious with their <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/carbonoffsets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carbonoffsets</span></a> . But, if we can get the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a> passed in the United States, <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/WeThePeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeThePeople</span></a> could potentially vote out any and all who support corporate interests over the environment and human health, and vote in people who are willing to legislate to protect the environment. </p><p>I only mention legislation, because I don't believe corporations do anything not for profit, unless legally mandated. </p><p>Superfluous things like massive data centers for frivolous things like <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/privatejet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privatejet</span></a> travel should be heavily regulated and taxed to pay for the infrastructure that humanity will need to survive climate change. The private jet class should not be able to get ocean front views in Pittsburgh when they're the reason the views might exist.</p><p>I'm so tired of these topics not being seriously covered by mainstream media when we are facing a <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/doomsdayclock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>doomsdayclock</span></a> on climate change. </p><p><a href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-water-scarcity-increases-desalination-plants-are-on-the-rise#:~:text=There%20are%20two%20types%20of,diameter%20of%20a%20human%20hair" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">e360.yale.edu/features/as-wate</span><span class="invisible">r-scarcity-increases-desalination-plants-are-on-the-rise#:~:text=There%20are%20two%20types%20of,diameter%20of%20a%20human%20hair</span></a>.</p>
💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>Weird Maps Win Elections – [USA] Gerrymandering Explained [Map Men]<br>--<br><a href="https://youtu.be/cwBslntC3xg?si=cNufts2Aa42QL6ZY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/cwBslntC3xg?si=cNufts</span><span class="invisible">2Aa42QL6ZY</span></a> <-- shared video<br>--<br>[an excellent description of gerrymandering of political districts in the USA]<br>“Why does the USA draw district maps with absolutely bonkers shapes? And how do squiggly districts help the wrong politicians win elections? And have we been pronouncing "Gerrymandering" wrong for 200 years?...”<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MapMen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MapMen</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>political</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gerrymandering</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elections</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/districts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>districts</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/packing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>packing</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cracking</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/voters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voters</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/selfsorting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfsorting</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/demographics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>demographics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/minorities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>minorities</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diversity</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/redistricting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>redistricting</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/swingvoters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>swingvoters</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elections</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MapMen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MapMen</span></a></p>
LilMikeSF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 1967, <a href="https://c.im/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> was confirmed by US Senate as a US <a href="https://c.im/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> Justice, sworn in only 18 days after Pres. Johnson signed the <a href="https://c.im/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a> and 13 days after the race riots in Watts. <br> <br> The great-grandson of slaves, and first ever <a href="https://c.im/tags/AfricanAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AfricanAmerican</span></a> to serve on the highest court in the land, Marshall had graduated <a href="https://c.im/tags/HowardUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HowardUniversity</span></a> law school in 1933. As a lawyer he'd previously won 29 of 32 legal cases argued before <a href="https://c.im/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a>, including Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which ruled school segregation in Topeka KS, and by default elsewhere throughout the USA was not only crappy, but <a href="https://c.im/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a>. </p><p>His 24 year tenure on the court, included anti discrimination cases and opposition to the death penalty, and service extended through retirement in 1991, with him passing away at the age of 84 in 1993.</p>
GailWaldby@bsky.social<p>VP Kamala Harris supports the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Bill. She pledges to work for its passage and will sign it into law if elected President. This Act would restore voting rights protections that were stripped by the MAGA Supreme Court Justices in 2013 and 2021.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YesWeKam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YesWeKam</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VRA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VRA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JohnLewisVRA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnLewisVRA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGAJustices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGAJustices</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemCast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemCast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/100ReasonsToVoteHarris2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100ReasonsToVoteHarris2024</span></a></p>
Wm.son<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/5thCircut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>5thCircut</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a></p><p>One more betrayal by the courts...</p><p><a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/civil-rights/2024/08/01/495480/u-s-5th-circuit-rules-for-galveston-county-in-voting-rights-case-striking-down-decades-of-precedent/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">houstonpublicmedia.org/article</span><span class="invisible">s/civil-rights/2024/08/01/495480/u-s-5th-circuit-rules-for-galveston-county-in-voting-rights-case-striking-down-decades-of-precedent/</span></a></p>
League of Women Voters of WB<p>As the end Disability Pride Month approaches, we salute @lwvohio for filing suit against a law violating the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a>. This week a federal judge struck down that law making it a crime for most people to help voters with disabilities return absentee ballots. A crime! @RevUpVA</p>
Jeff Barbose 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦 ❤️ 🇱🇺<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@leah" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>leah</span></a></span> basically the GOP strategy for voting and the reason that the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a> exists.</p>
Wm.son<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a> #2013 <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MotherJonesMagazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MotherJonesMagazine</span></a> </p><p>From 2020, Robert Reich shared this chart from Mother Jones Magazine. I imagine the totals are higher by 2024.</p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@xankarn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>xankarn</span></a></span> <br>CAN I POINT OUT that this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightWing</span></a> extremist ideological shift in the Court is a perfect example of what happens when <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a> have an unchecked majority?</p><p>When <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> (*briefly*) had a "SuperMajority" (for 23 working days) in 2009, what did they do with it? They made sure everyone had access to affordable <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a>.</p><p>What do Conservatives do? They abolish <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Roe</span></a>, repeal The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a>, codify discrimination against <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gay</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> individuals, and ban <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a>. 🤬</p>
kevin<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@lovelylovely" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lovelylovely</span></a></span> </p><p>isn’t that why the congress passed the <a href="https://friendsofdesoto.social/tags/votingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>votingRightsAct</span></a> WAY BACK IN 1965? all those years ago. Thanks, Supreme Court, for pretending the job was done.</p>
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