ALEC EXPOSED = Rigging Elections aka Voter Suppression

[Razoo]

ALEC Exposed: Rigging Elections | The Nation

State Representative Robin Vos, Republican co-chair of the powerful Legislative Joint Finance Committee, determined that making it harder for college students, seniors and low-income citizens to vote was an immediate legislative priority, and pressed lawmakers to focus on enacting one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the nation.

As ALEC’s chair for Wisconsin, Vos was doing what was expected of him. Enacting burdensome photo ID or proof of citizenship requirements has long been an ALEC priority. ALEC and its sponsors have an enduring mission to pass laws that would make it harder for millions of Americans to vote, impose barriers to direct democracy and let big money flow more freely into campaigns.

Republicans have argued for years that “voter fraud” (rather than unpopular policies) costs the party election victories. A key member of the Corporate Executive Committee for ALEC’s Public Safety and Elections Task Force is Sean Parnell, president of the Center for Competitive Politics, which began highlighting voter ID efforts in 2006, shortly after Karl Rove encouraged conservatives to take up voter fraud as an issue. Kansas

Republican Kris Kobach, who along with ALEC itself helped draft Arizona’s anti-immigration law, has warned of “illegally registered aliens.” ALEC’s magazine, Inside ALEC, featured a cover story titled “Preventing Election Fraud” following Obama’s election.

Shortly afterward, in the summer of 2009, the Public Safety and Elections Task Force adopted voter ID model legislation. And when midterm elections put Republicans in charge of both chambers of the legislature in twenty-six states (up from fifteen), GOP legislators began moving bills resembling ALEC’s model.

 

[Razoo]

American Legislative Exchange Council Backs Trump on Confederate Monuments, Policing - EXPOSEDbyCMD

ALEC, a pay-to-play organization that facilitates bill writing by state lawmakers and business interests, has created a secret task force on voting and redistricting, which Documented uncovered, and is dragging its corporate members back into race-related issues around police reform and protection of monuments. In a preview of what may occur at its virtual annual meeting this week, ALEC has sided with President Trump’s latest executive orders on those issues.

On July 2, ALEC’s executive director Lisa Nelson, along with largely conservative and right-wing groups and individuals, signed a letter supporting Trump’s executive order that instructs the attorney general to prioritize criminal prosecutions for the destruction of monuments on federal property, with prison sentences of up to 10 years.

The executive order also directs federal agencies to withhold federal funding from cities that do not protect monuments from demonstrators.

The letter, which was published on the Tea Party-aligned website Conservative HQ, supports Trump’s order to prosecute to the fullest extent “any person or entity that destroys, damages, vandalizes, or desecrates a monument, memorial, or statue within the United States.”

It also highlights portions of Trump’s order that cast racial justice protesters as “rioters, arsonists, and left-wing extremists” and “the mob,” and claim that they are aligned “with ideologies—such as Marxism—that call for the destruction of the United States system of government.”

 

[Razoo]

ALEC’s promotion of racist voter ID laws—which disproportionately affect people of color—and “Stand Your Ground” laws generated a strong public backlash in 2012 in the wake of the murder of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teen in Florida.

=== Under Stand Your Ground laws, a person has the right to use deadly force against threats or perceived threats of harm, even if they could safely retreat from the situation. ALEC’s model Stand Your Ground bill, backed by the National Rifle Association, became law in 23 states.

=== Progressive groups led by Color of Change, Common Cause, and People for the American Way called for a boycott of ALEC corporate members, leading Coca-Cola, Wendy’s, McDonalds, candy maker Mars, and many more companies to drop out of ALEC.

ALEC disbanded its task force that wrote the bill, which was chaired by Wal-Mart and co-chaired by the NRA, and it stopped promoting the legislation.

ALEC’s focus on policing and monuments comes in the context of a June 17 letter from ALEC legislative board members in response to the murder of George Floyd.

In “Speaking Up for Restorative Justice,” ALEC argues that “… it is incumbent on organizations like ours to seek opportunities to advance policy that takes these [racial] inequities into account. We must focus on creating a fair society that ensures both equality and equal opportunity under the law.”

=== But ALEC’s claim of “fighting racism” stands in conflict with its broader policy agenda, including on elections and voting. ALEC’s past model “Voter ID Act” made it more difficult for millions of Americans, disenfranchising many low-income and minority voters who do not have a driver’s license.

=== For example, a federal appeals court ruled in 2016 that provisions of North Carolina’s voter ID law “target African-Americans with almost surgical precision” and “impose cures for problems that did not exist.”

=== More recently, in 2018, ALEC adopted a model resolution to limit judicial power on redistricting, making it easier for ALEC-dominated legislatures to gerrymander district maps, a process that often use party affiliation to pack Black voters into a small number of districts, diluting their voting power in surrounding areas.

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ALEC’s new secret task force on voting and redistricting is chaired by voter suppression proponents Cleta Mitchell, a GOP lawyer, and Arizona state Rep. Shawna Bolick, who has recently spread misinformation about mail-in ballot fraud.
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[Grim17]

What a bunch of hyperbolic, leftist tripe.

Voter ID's protect the integrity of our electoral system... Something the democrats have fought tooth and nail against.

Opposing voter ID's, opposition to the deportation of illegal aliens, their support for both open borders and sanctuary cities, along with pushing for an all mail-in ballot election, make it crystal clear that the democrats don't want to protect our electoral system, they want to cheat it.

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[rocket88]

What a bunch of hyperbolic, leftist tripe.

Voter ID's protect the integrity of our electoral system... Something the democrats have fought tooth and nail against.

Opposing voter ID's, opposition to the deportation of illegal aliens, their support for both open borders and sanctuary cities, along with pushing for an all mail-in ballot election, make it crystal clear that the democrats don't want to protect our electoral system, they want to cheat it.

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Votrr ID is a solution in search if a problem. It prevents a small fraction of the electoral rigging both parties use regularly.

 

[Grim17]

It prevents a small fraction of the electoral rigging both parties use regularly.

I'm for the prevention of "electoral rigging" and obviously you aren't.

I don't know what else needs to be said.

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[rocket88]

I'm for the prevention of "electoral rigging" and obviously you aren't.

I don't know what else needs to be said.

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I'm against it, but in the area of electoral fraud, this is really small potatoes. You don't want to talk about what really happens because you'd have to admit that it's not a "Democrat" thing.

 

[Barnacle]

ALEC Exposed: Rigging Elections | The Nation
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Isn't it time we joined the rest of the "civilized" world and have photo ID's for every citizen who is eligible to vote?!?

I mean, we are the only country in the "civilized" world that doesn't require every voter to present his/her photo ID upon casting an in-person vote.

 

[Razoo]

ALEC Exposed: Rigging Elections | The Nation

State Representative Robin Vos, Republican co-chair of the powerful Legislative Joint Finance Committee, determined that making it harder for college students, seniors and low-income citizens to vote was an immediate legislative priority, and pressed lawmakers to focus on enacting one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the nation.

As ALEC’s chair for Wisconsin, Vos was doing what was expected of him. Enacting burdensome photo ID or proof of citizenship requirements has long been an ALEC priority. ALEC and its sponsors have an enduring mission to pass laws that would make it harder for millions of Americans to vote, impose barriers to direct democracy and let big money flow more freely into campaigns.

Republicans have argued for years that “voter fraud” (rather than unpopular policies) costs the party election victories. A key member of the Corporate Executive Committee for ALEC’s Public Safety and Elections Task Force is Sean Parnell, president of the Center for Competitive Politics, which began highlighting voter ID efforts in 2006, shortly after Karl Rove encouraged conservatives to take up voter fraud as an issue. Kansas

Republican Kris Kobach, who along with ALEC itself helped draft Arizona’s anti-immigration law, has warned of “illegally registered aliens.” ALEC’s magazine, Inside ALEC, featured a cover story titled “Preventing Election Fraud” following Obama’s election.

Shortly afterward, in the summer of 2009, the Public Safety and Elections Task Force adopted voter ID model legislation. And when midterm elections put Republicans in charge of both chambers of the legislature in twenty-six states (up from fifteen), GOP legislators began moving bills resembling ALEC’s model.

ALEC’s promotion of racist voter ID laws—which disproportionately affect people of color—and “Stand Your Ground” laws generated a strong public backlash in 2012 in the wake of the murder of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teen in Florida.

=== Under Stand Your Ground laws, a person has the right to use deadly force against threats or perceived threats of harm, even if they could safely retreat from the situation. ALEC’s model Stand Your Ground bill, backed by the National Rifle Association, became law in 23 states.

=== Progressive groups led by Color of Change, Common Cause, and People for the American Way called for a boycott of ALEC corporate members, leading Coca-Cola, Wendy’s, McDonalds, candy maker Mars, and many more companies to drop out of ALEC.

ALEC disbanded its task force that wrote the bill, which was chaired by Wal-Mart and co-chaired by the NRA, and it stopped promoting the legislation.

ALEC’s focus on policing and monuments comes in the context of a June 17 letter from ALEC legislative board members in response to the murder of George Floyd.

In “Speaking Up for Restorative Justice,” ALEC argues that “… it is incumbent on organizations like ours to seek opportunities to advance policy that takes these [racial] inequities into account. We must focus on creating a fair society that ensures both equality and equal opportunity under the law.”

=== But ALEC’s claim of “fighting racism” stands in conflict with its broader policy agenda, including on elections and voting. ALEC’s past model “Voter ID Act” made it more difficult for millions of Americans, disenfranchising many low-income and minority voters who do not have a driver’s license.

=== For example, a federal appeals court ruled in 2016 that provisions of North Carolina’s voter ID law “target African-Americans with almost surgical precision” and “impose cures for problems that did not exist.”

=== More recently, in 2018, ALEC adopted a model resolution to limit judicial power on redistricting, making it easier for ALEC-dominated legislatures to gerrymander district maps, a process that often use party affiliation to pack Black voters into a small number of districts, diluting their voting power in surrounding areas.

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ALEC’s new secret task force on voting and redistricting is chaired by voter suppression proponents Cleta Mitchell, a GOP lawyer, and Arizona state Rep. Shawna Bolick, who has recently spread misinformation about mail-in ballot fraud.
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[Razoo]

What a bunch of hyperbolic, leftist tripe.

Voter ID's protect the integrity of our electoral system... Something the democrats have fought tooth and nail against.

Opposing voter ID's, opposition to the deportation of illegal aliens, their support for both open borders and sanctuary cities, along with pushing for an all mail-in ballot election, make it crystal clear that the democrats don't want to protect our electoral system, they want to cheat it.

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Blah blah blah yada yada yada

 

[Grim17]

Blah blah blah yada yada yada

And don't forget this:

 

[Razoo]

ALEC Exposed: Rigging Elections | The Nation

State Representative Robin Vos, Republican co-chair of the powerful Legislative Joint Finance Committee, determined that making it harder for college students, seniors and low-income citizens to vote was an immediate legislative priority, and pressed lawmakers to focus on enacting one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the nation.

As ALEC’s chair for Wisconsin, Vos was doing what was expected of him. Enacting burdensome photo ID or proof of citizenship requirements has long been an ALEC priority. ALEC and its sponsors have an enduring mission to pass laws that would make it harder for millions of Americans to vote, impose barriers to direct democracy and let big money flow more freely into campaigns.

Republicans have argued for years that “voter fraud” (rather than unpopular policies) costs the party election victories. A key member of the Corporate Executive Committee for ALEC’s Public Safety and Elections Task Force is Sean Parnell, president of the Center for Competitive Politics, which began highlighting voter ID efforts in 2006, shortly after Karl Rove encouraged conservatives to take up voter fraud as an issue. Kansas

Republican Kris Kobach, who along with ALEC itself helped draft Arizona’s anti-immigration law, has warned of “illegally registered aliens.” ALEC’s magazine, Inside ALEC, featured a cover story titled “Preventing Election Fraud” following Obama’s election.

Shortly afterward, in the summer of 2009, the Public Safety and Elections Task Force adopted voter ID model legislation. And when midterm elections put Republicans in charge of both chambers of the legislature in twenty-six states (up from fifteen), GOP legislators began moving bills resembling ALEC’s model.

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[Razoo]

American Legislative Exchange Council Backs Trump on Confederate Monuments, Policing - EXPOSEDbyCMD

ALEC, a pay-to-play organization that facilitates bill writing by state lawmakers and business interests, has created a secret task force on voting and redistricting, which Documented uncovered, and is dragging its corporate members back into race-related issues around police reform and protection of monuments. In a preview of what may occur at its virtual annual meeting this week, ALEC has sided with President Trump’s latest executive orders on those issues.

On July 2, ALEC’s executive director Lisa Nelson, along with largely conservative and right-wing groups and individuals, signed a letter supporting Trump’s executive order that instructs the attorney general to prioritize criminal prosecutions for the destruction of monuments on federal property, with prison sentences of up to 10 years.

The executive order also directs federal agencies to withhold federal funding from cities that do not protect monuments from demonstrators.

The letter, which was published on the Tea Party-aligned website Conservative HQ, supports Trump’s order to prosecute to the fullest extent “any person or entity that destroys, damages, vandalizes, or desecrates a monument, memorial, or statue within the United States.”

It also highlights portions of Trump’s order that cast racial justice protesters as “rioters, arsonists, and left-wing extremists” and “the mob,” and claim that they are aligned “with ideologies—such as Marxism—that call for the destruction of the United States system of government.”

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