US Politics in Trump era
Lawsuits, Falsehoods, and a Lot of White Men: Trump’s Election Commission Meets Amid Growing Controversy
As the commission meets Tuesday for the second time to discuss potential changes to the way Americans vote, its members have been busy promoting falsehoods like these, exacerbating concerns that they’ll use any pretense to restrict access to the ballot under the guise of eliminating voter fraud. The witness list for the meeting—100 percent white men—includes people who have floated radical ideas like requiring background checks for voting.
Trump Lawyers Agree to Settlement Talks in University Suit
Donald J. Trump’s lawyers agreed on Thursday to enter settlement talks in a class-action fraud lawsuit involving the president-elect and Trump University, now defunct, raising the possibility of a quick end to the six-year-old case just before it goes to trial. The lawsuit says Trump University gave seminars and classes under the guise of being an accredited school and pressured people to spend up to $35,000 on mentorships.
Ballots With Sanders Votes Covered with White-Out Filmed by Election Monitors in San Diego
Citizen election monitors in San Diego have captured film of ballots which have been tampered with, with white-out erasing only only Sanders votes, sometimes with part of Bernie Sanders’ first name obscured as well. In the film, a monitor reports that almost half the ballots in the box of ballots she witnessed had been so altered, always against Sanders.
For the Last Time: Here’s Proof the Democratic Primary Wasn’t Rigged Against Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders Delegates Complain of “Disrespect” on Democratic Convention Floor
Michael Wilson, a Sanders-pledged delegate from California, told me that floor officials attempted to confiscate his delegation’s anti-TPP signs, and that he returned from a walkout by Sanders supporters on Tuesday evening to find that his seat had been taken by a nondelegate who refused to give it up.
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This Is Not a Democracy: How the Sanders-Clinton Contest in California Failed Voters
It is probable that a Sanders win in California would have made a difference in the national contest. Yet while millions of voters turned out for Senator Sanders across the nation, millions of our votes in California were never counted. In case you thought voter suppression went out in the year 2000 when we had “hanging chads” in Florida’s Gore-Bush contest, I have bad news for you: voter suppression is still in full swing.