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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Actually, I believe both Tennessee's and Arkansas's attempts to pass laws similar to what North Carolina has passed and what Georgia is attempting to pass failed. The reason was "business concerns" meaning they did not want to risk a mass exodus of businesses leaving just to please a number of bigots who will vote Republican anyway.
edited 24th Mar '16 2:32:00 PM by GameGuruGG
Wizard Needs Food BadlyHow could there possibly be any plausible connection between the Clinton campaign and Arizona closing more than half of their voting locations in one of the most populated districts?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Hillary knows Debbie Wesserman Schultz. Schultz is the DNC head. The DNC is basically the national organ for the Democrats. The Arizona Democratic Party answers to the DNC on some level. Hillary has DWS tell her buddies in Arizona to rat fuck the polling stations to fuck with Sanders and suppress votes.
Well, Hillary has publically acted extremely displeased with how DWS has acted. A kick upstairs would solidify her credibility on that score, but it's almost completely unnecessary. Everyone who's reasonable knows that Hillary has no control over what a renegade ally does to help her, so the best thing to do in public is to just shut up. (What's she going to do, attack Schultz in the middle of her campaign against Sanders?)
At worst, she's privately toasting Schultz over A Glass of Chianti, secure in the knowledge that because she couldn't do anything to stop her even if she tried, and everyone who knows this much about the Democrats' sausage making knows it, she's off the hook for what her Poisonous Friend does.
edited 24th Mar '16 5:56:54 PM by Ramidel
I think the Clinton allegations are more aimed at the various Democrats suddenly finding themselves registered as Independents, Republicans, or even Libertarians for no adequately-explained reason. However, whether this is exclusive to Democrats, let alone how widespread it might be (the Daily Kos article I linked to mentioned NY, PA, MD, and CA Democrats alleging it'd happened to them) is completely up in the air. So my advice is if you're in one of those States, and registered to vote in either Primary, double-check now. That way, on the off chance that you're one of those impacted, you'll stand a much better shot at getting it cleared up prior to the Primary than finding out once you get to the polls.
edited 24th Mar '16 7:17:01 PM by ironballs16
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
The question becomes has he made more personal enemies than Cruz, because if I recall Cruz was, until Trump became frontrunner, the Republican equivalent of The Friend Nobody Likes
Oh, and a couple updates regarding the Arizona Primary.
1) The White House is scheduled to officially address the petition
, and another petition is apparently underway to just redo the AZ Primary entirely as a result.
2) Not content with angering voters on Primary day, Helen Purcell doubled down by offhandedly blaming
voters for causing the long lines, because they opted for going to the polls instead of using the mail-in ballots. Suffice to say, there's also a petition calling for her impeachment in the works, though that's at only 4,000 signatures so far.
edited 24th Mar '16 7:25:48 PM by ironballs16
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"

So as long as the Congressional elections (both houses, mind you) don't end up with a complete meltdown, the Republican party will survive.
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