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Gerrymandering is as old as voting itself and always comes into contention every 10 years by the party that lost.. Everyone likes it when it Helps their party but not when it does not..Challenged just recently the SC has made unfavorable ruling with for four states now.. You may wish to look it up.
Another to consider; what do you call this?? Do you support this form of suppression??
One of the ways that New York slams the door in the face of voters is the one-two punch of its closed primaries and its draconian party switch rules. Here's how it works.
A minority of states, including New York, still cling to party rules that exclude so-called independent voters from participating in the major parties' primaries. While these primaries may have been a step forward decades ago, when they replaced an even more exclusionary nomination process, they are now locking out huge number of Democratic voters. What are the impact of these rules?
Today in New York, if you are not registered to vote at all, you can register and declare a party affiliation about one month before the primary. If you're registered as an independent, but are so inspired by a candidate like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that you want to switch your party registration to Democratic, you'd better be a good planner. To vote in New York's federal Democratic primary -- which was held on June 26, 2018 -- you would have had to have switched your party registration by October 13, 2017.
That's right. You had to switch your registration more than eight months before the primary.
How much bigger would Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory have been if young people of all races could have easily enrolled in the Democratic party and been eligible to vote in the primary? And how many more candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could be elected? The machine knows the answer and so they suppress the vote. It is so obviously a tool of voter suppression that the national Democratic Unity reform commission - comprised of members picked by Clinton, Sanders and the DNC -- unanimously voted to authorize the DNC to sanction the New York Democratic Party.
Some inside the Democratic Party retort that only someone who signs up for the donkey-emblazoned membership card should be allowed to vote in the primaries even if it means young people and disproportionately young people of color are locked out. They ignore how strikingly similar this argument is to those Republicans use to justify onerous voter ID laws.
Incredibly, the fix is easy. There is no statutory change needed in New York to open up the Democratic primaries to independents. According to testimony from New York election officials, the New York Democratic Party can change the practice by simply asking that it be done. But just like red state disenfranchisers, machine politicians use voter suppression to stay in power. The same political cowardice that motivates Republicans who want a rigged election process motivates these antiquated rules in New York -- fear that in a fair fight the voters will choose someone else.
But the onerous registration process and split primaries are not the only tool of voter suppression and disenfranchisement that New York uses. The New York City Board of Elections, for instance, admitted that it illegally purged over 200,000 names from its voter rolls during litigation with the United States Justice Department and others.
The same is true of the embarrassingly early party switch deadline -- which is by far the longest in the country. There are policies designed by those who don't want to build and expand the Democratic Party but rather to control it and make it less responsive to its base and the needs of voters.
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