The Election is Rigged (I'm Going To Lose)

[Pat Mustard]

Voter suppression happens all the time on both sides. The same year that Bush's team clearly did voter surpression in Florida, so did Al Gore. Before people in the panhandle, which overwhelmingly leans Republican, Al Gore had falsely claimed victory, which CNN had reported. How many people didn't go out and vote because of that? That shit happens every year by both sides. You'd have to be naive in the extreme to think only one side does it. Hillary Clinton did it to Bernie Sanders voters by pretending that the election wasn't that close constantly on the news. I know Republicans who believe only Democrats do it. In fact there was a whole book written about Democrats and voter suppression tactics. The fact that you only know the Republican side of things is kind of telling.

That's not what I'm talking about anyway.

Between 1968 and the late '90s (can't remember exactly when but it stopped in time for 2000), Republican state governments in the south were legally obliged to get pre-approval from the Supreme court on any laws regarding checking voters or eligibility before submitting them for passing through state legislatures. This was a legacy of the Jim Crow era, an ideology which still has a deathgrip on the Republicans and has returned with a vengeance in law since the requirement was removed by Daddy Bush's placemen on the bench.