...the upside of gerrymandering is the possibility of gaining more seats than your expected fair allocation of seats...to get this unfair allocation a party must distribute "their" finite number of precious partisan voters across many districts in "just enough numbers" to win, but no more (i. e. "waste" a precious partisan voter)...to determine what is "just enough" the gerrymanders generally use "historical voting patterns and turnout"...
...now the downside of a gerrymander...enter an ultra qualified charismatic politician who is able to "energize" their voters to turnout in numbers far exceeding the expected historical averages (i.e. Stacey Abrams)...the "just enough" allocation of the precious partisan voters in a particular gerrymandered district is "swamped"...and the opposition wins the gerrymandered district...
...this may be why Georgia's Secretary of State is very, very, very, concerned with the Democratic turnout...there are not enough reliably Republican voters in the gerrymandered district to cover the huge turnout...enter voter suppression (i.e a method of reducing the excessive turnout to the expected historical averages and those used when drawing the gerrymandered map)...
Web:
UPDATED 07/27/2020 AP, expert: Georgia election server showed signs of tampering and Coalition for Good Governance
UPDATED 05/23/2020 LAT, Georgia reopened first. What the data show is a matter of fierce debate
...Georgia's governor extends electoral ruses, artifices and gimmicks to critical healthcare data and information...sacrificing Georgians to Republican Party dogma and deception...
...Georgia's governor extends electoral ruses, artifices and gimmicks to critical healthcare data and information...sacrificing Georgians to Republican Party dogma and deception...
UPDATED 12/14/2019 RiggedTheMovie, Have Your Been Purged [from the Voter Rolls],1
UPDATED 10/26/2019 EconomistPodcast, Where Does Power Lie In America? and FacingSouth, The Long Fight Over Using Student IDs To Vote in North Carolina and NYT, The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It and WP, Civil Rights Group Challenges Rejection of George Mason Student Voter Registrations
UPDATED 09/09/2019 NYT, In North Carolina Do-Over Vote, a Reliable Republican District Is Up for Grabs
UPDATED 08/30/2019 WP, It Seems Clear That Stacey Abrams’s Next Political Move Is Pursuing An Executive Role, Not A Legislative One
UPDATED 08/19/2019 WP, Stacey Abrams to Launch Voter Protection Program in Battleground States Ahead of the 2020 Election
...the GOP/RNC cum RAG Party's antiquated political platform necessitates use of Ruses, Artifices, and Gimmicks (RAG)...lately, their use of Ruses, Artifices, and Gimmicks is transparently flagrant...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Trump Demands Facebook Investigate Why Obama’s Post Got So Many Likes
UPDATED 07/13/2019 NYT, Dear Candidates: Here Is What Black People Want and Black Census Project
UPDATED 02/23/2019 NYT, Republican Cries Against Voter Fraud Go Mostly Quiet After Scheme Tied to Party
...just in case you're tempted to think Georgia is the only [southern?] state the GOP/RNC cum RAG Party is actively using in ruse, artifice, and gimmickry to win elections...
...don't forget to laugh...
UPDATED 02/06/2019 ABCNews, Stacey Abrams Delivers Democratic Response to Trump's State of the Union
UPDATED 12/26/2018 Reuters, North Carolina Affidavits Released in Alleged Election Fraud Case and DCCC, Chairwoman Cheri Bustos Responds to Reports of Alleged Election Fraud in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District and DCCC, Chairwoman Cheri Bustos Announces First Round of Senior Staff Hires
"...The DCCC did amazing work in 2018 to win 40 seats. Our challenge is to build on that progress, to fortify and expand our majority...America’s strength has always come from our diversity. That’s why I’m committed to building a leadership team that reflects the tremendous diversity of our House Democrats and our nation..."
UPDATED 12/12/2018 NYT, With Power Grabs in the Midwest, G.O.P. Risks a 2020 Backlash
"...The more fundamental risk for Republicans is that voters are increasingly savvy about issues like gerrymandering, voting rights and campaign finance, which were once thought to be of great interest to elites but of little relevance to most citizens..."--NYT, With Power Grabs--
UPDATED 12/13/2018 TED, Three Questions to Ask Yourself About Everything You Do and CBS46, Fair Fight Georgia Files Lawsuit Against State of Georgia and Fair Fight Georgia
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Iraq Offers to Help Establish Democracy in North Carolina...
UPDATED 11/29/2018 AP, Candidate-Backed Group Challenges Georgia Election Process and CHNews, Abrams Supporters Seek Wide-Reaching Election Reform in Georgia and Complaint, Fair Fight Action and Care in Action v. Robyn A. Crittenden (acting Georgia Secretary of State)
UPDATED 11/19/2018 AP, Abrams Says She Can’t Win Georgia Governor’s Race
...Georgia's electoral processes are a long way from inspiring confidence...the Republican Party has degenerated to a party of whiteface☂ ruse, artifice, and gimmick (i.e. GOP ⇒ RAG) across the United States...
UPDATED 11/13/2018 NYT, Georgia’s Shaky Voting System
...the NYT opinion has enough information to order a run-off based on Secretary of State, Bryan Kemp's gross negligence...a scandalous farce where a state's secretary of state "oversees" his own candidacy for governor is not an election...
UPDATED 11/08/2018 WP, Stacey Abrams Legal Team Holds News Conference
UPDATED 11/04/2018 USAToday, Georgia's GOP Secretary of State Alleges [w/o Evidence] State Democrats Tried To Hack Registration
UPDATED 11/03/2018 Reuters, U.S. Courts Rule Against Georgia On Voter Suppression Cases and NYT, Fired Up’ Voters in 22 States Are Outpacing [by 80%] 2014 Early Ballot Counts
UPDATED 11/03/2018 Vox, Why American Voter Registrations Are Disappearing and NewYorker, Are Police Targeting Get-Out-the-Vote Efforts in Georgia?
...don't forget to laugh...WP, The GOP Has A Preexisting Condition: Bigotry
...the caravan is "marching" like a bunch of D-0 Army recruits...better send Seal Team Six-Red and the 3rd Airborne Group to stop this "invading force"...(AP, Fact Check: President Trump’s Rhetoric and The Truth About Migrant Caravans)...make sure you pack the C-130s with extra MREs, doctors, and medical supplies...the "threat" will welcome offers of nourishment and medical attention...because the "threat" will likely mistake soldiers for border agents be ready to tell the surrendering "threat", in Spanish directions to the nearest border patrol agent... (WP, Trump’s Border Deployments Could Cost $200 Million by Year-End)
1. UPDATED 01/03/2020 Charlotte Observer, NC Voter ID Law Written with ‘Discriminatory Intent,’ Says Judge Who Just Blocked It and ABCNews, Memorandum Opinion, Order, And Preliminary Injunction Loretta C. Biggs, District Judge (pdf)
...evidence continues to accumulate for requiring a form of the 1965 Voting Rights Act §5 preclearance rules, which the Supreme Court's ideologues invalidated in Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), leaving the "gods" to sort out our nation's entrenched partisan regional racism...
...kudos to the local judges who are stepping in to fill the insidiously discriminatory gaps created by the Supreme Court ideologues' Shelby ruling...
UPDATED 12/14/2019 USAToday, Judge Orders 234,000 Purged from Wisconsin Voter Rolls and Texas Settles Lawsuit Over Attempt To Purge Thousands From Voter Rolls
...Georgia is not the only state where the RNC-GOP cum RAG Party is conducting bulk voter roll purge programs...unsurprisingly these bulk programs, disproportionately impact the economically disadvantaged and minority groups...
...everybody concerned about fair (i.e. credible) elections must actively intervene to make sure these "voter roll purges" do not remove a single legitimate...expect these ruses, artifices, and gimmicks (RAGs) to continue into the foreseeable future...
...combining an aggressive "voter roll purge" oversight program, which must receive a copy of any purge letter with an equally aggressive voter registration program is ideal...
...here is a statement from Wisconsin's Elections Commission on Judge Malloy's oral ruling:
Statement regarding decision in voter list case...the statement should say "We will be overruling Judge Malloy's oral ruling"...
Date:Fri, 12/13/2019 - 17:30
The Wisconsin Elections Commission issued the following statement in response to Judge Malloy's ruling today in Timothy Zignego et al vs. Wisconsin Election Commission et al:
"We will be analyzing the judge’s oral decision and consulting with the six members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission on next steps. A written order has not been issued yet."
For more information, contact
Reid Magney, public information officer, 608-267-7887, reid.magney@wi.gov.
Originally Published October 31, 2018; Last Updated May 23, 2020; Last Republished May 23, 2020:
