A couple updates on Florida’s 12 (12!!) amendments: In addition to granting voting rights back to over a million citizens with felonies on their record, Floridians have voted to ban offshore drilling in state-owned waters (and also banned indoor vaping); they voted to increase the mandatory time between serving in… Read more
Come the fuck on North Carolina.
Katherine, I think you mean Amazon Cuomo. Read more
Not that it’s any surprise, but Ohio Republican House Rep. Jim Jordan claimed his seat in the 4th District; he’s currently leading by 17 points. Read more
Hot damn, that is (potentially***) nuts. Read more
Going back to North Carolina news, the two amendments (of six total) that would give the GOP-dominated North Carolina state legislature more power were both crushed by at least 30 points in early voting.
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Still too early to call, but Kim Davis—the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to LGBTQ couples in 2015—is currently losing her election by 600 votes with two precincts to go. Read more
On MSNBC two seconds ago: Read more
Keeping with this thread, three precincts in Gwinnett County, GA., will stay open late to deal with ballot machine issues, per the AJC. Read more
A FOX commercial taught me that Newt Gingrich is apparently in a TV series on Mars and I. Am. In. Read more
Overheard in the Splinter Nerve Center™: “Cable TV is bad.” Read more
Coming from an exit poll, so grain of salt, but it seems that responding voters so far prefer living to dying. Read more
+1 just for starting a comment with“Machine politics from the late 1800s/early 1900s get a bad rap, but” Read more
I get what you’re saying and I do love your passion, here. Personally, I tend to vote, though I wish I had kept my NC registration because it means more there than it does in NYC. But you, or anyone else, don’t get to be the arbitrator of what constitutes the validity of whether a citizen chooses to vote or not, and… Read more
Film/record it and send it to me! I pay in h/t’s and stars. Read more
Shot:
Not saying she hasn’t sucked on Native issues or that Cramer wouldn’t be an absolute nightmare. Rather, just pointing out that her own actions have put her in a position where she now has to spend the next month convincing Native voters to give her another chance, and that based on reporting around the area, that’s… Read more
Uhh, one of these issues was 1) the biggest N.D./S.D. story of the year and 2) very clearly a self-inflicted wound on Heitkamp’s part, and the other is the result of N.D. Dems, or any party, failing to adequately secure Native voting rights before they lost all the state houses. The Kavanaugh vote was cool and Good,… Read more