Our country is sick and lost
2018 will be a heavy lift considering how many seats are favoring Republicans.
I hope this Tax Scam is unpacked and all its nastiness is revealed to the American public but who knows?
It just seems our Democratic Party is getting steam rolled. We didn't raise enough hell for Garland, we kicked out Franken, and 51 votes now seems the new normal in the Senate.
Not feeling very hopeful this morning and if they kill CHIP then OMG.
Someone please talk me down off this cliff.
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elections in that district is usually 14k. This election it was 23k? We win when we turn out and vote. I think VA and AL are showing that we aren't taking things for granted. We must grow 49% turnout into 75% tunouts. If we do that, we will always win.
GOTV in 2018
might of changed everything
Wisconsin elections have been rigged since walker but going there and asking for peoples votes might of driven turn out to overcome the rig
or counting the ballots could of helped
(See, by way of just one example, my recent interview with Wisconsin's Karen McKim, whose public records request finally allowed, just weeks ago, a multi-partisan group of observers to examine paper ballots from the 2016 President election. That audit of several precincts in Racine County, paid for by the residents themselves, revealed up to 6% of perfectly valid Presidential votes went untallied, thanks to flawed optical scan systems used across the state on Election Night and, in much of the state, even during even during Green Party candidate Jill Stein's attempted "recount". Other wards which tallied by hand instead during that "recount" discovered as many as 30% of valid votes went untallied originally!)
http://bradblog.com/index.php?paged=2
Wisconsin was one of three states, along with Michigan and Pennsylvania, where Green Party candidate Jill Stein had filed for "recounts" and forensic audits of voting systems, after the Clinton Campaign declined to heed the pleas for such an audit by computer scientists and voting systems experts who begged her campaign to do so. Stein's post-election effort was largely stymied by Team Trump and various statutes in each of those states. A statewide tally was allowed to move forward in Wisconsin, however only about half of the state's ballots were hand-counted, as municipalities were allowed to carry out their choice of either manual- or machine-tallied "recounts".
http://bradblog.com/?p=12386
After finding an alarming number of uncounted ballots in Racine County precincts during last year's machine "recount" (see documentary filmmaker Lulu Friesdat's alarming coverage of election officials refusing to hand-tally clearly valid votes there during Stein's attempted "recount"
the volunteers at WIE filed, and paid for, a public records request to examine the hand-marked paper ballots in a number of those wards.
Recently, they were allowed to review those ballots and, as they feared, many perfectly valid votes had gone uncounted by the optical-scan systems both during the original Election Night tally and the so-called "recount" in counties that used the same faulty computer scanners for the second count, after they had similarly mistallied ballots on Election Night.
