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Termin8tor » 02 Mar 2020 12:42 pm » wrote:

Misty » 02 Mar 2020 11:51 am » wrote:I don't want to hear a word from you about sources or shoddy journalism.
Your regular sources are wingnut websites that post all kinds of FAKE News, conspiracy theories and hoaxes all the time.

Blah, blah, blah, blah. Why did you censor this, psycho?
To hide the truth.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/0 ... -than-flu/

Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote.

Last year, Texas led the US south in an unenviable statistic: closing down the most polling stations, making it more difficult for people to vote and arguably benefiting Republicans.

A report by civil rights group The Leadership Conference Education Fund found that 750 polls had been closed statewide since 2012.

Long considered a Republican bastion, changing racial demographics in the state have caused leading Democrats to recast Texas as a potential swing state.

Texas Democratic party official Manny Garcia has called it “the biggest battleground state in the country”.

The closures could exacerbate Texas’s already chronically low voter turnout rates, to the advantage of incumbent Republicans.

Ongoing research by University of Houston political scientists Jeronimo Cortina and Brandon Rottinghaus indicates that people are less likely to vote if they have to travel farther to do so, and the effect is disproportionately greater for some groups of voters, such as Latinxs.

"The fact of the matter is that Texas is not a red state,” said Antonio Arellano of Jolt, a progressive Latino political organization. “Texas is a nonvoting state.”



On a local level, the changes can be stark.

McLennan county, home to Waco, Texas, closed 44% of its polling places from 2012 to 2018, despite the fact that its population grew by more than 15,000 people during the same time period, with more than two-thirds of that growth coming from Black and Latinx residents.

In 2012, there was one polling place for every 4,000 residents.

By 2018 that figure had dropped to one polling place per 7,700 residents.

A 2019 paper by University of Houston political scientists found that after the county’s transition to vote centers, more voting locations were closed in Latinx neighborhoods than in non-Latinx neighborhoods, and that Latinx people had to travel farther to vote than non-Hispanic whites.

Some counties closed enough polling locations to violate Texas state law.

Brazoria county, south of Houston, closed almost 60% of its polling locations between 2012 and 2018, causing it to fall below the statutory minimum, along with another county.

In a statement, Brazoria county clerk Joyce Hudman said the closures were inadvertent, and that this would not happen again in 2020.

A Guardian analysis based on that report confirms what many activists have suspected: the places where the black and Latinx population is growing by the largest numbers have experienced the vast majority of the state’s poll site closures.

The analysis finds that the 50 counties that gained the most Black and Latinx residents between 2012 and 2018 closed 542 polling sites, compared to just 34 closures in the 50 counties that have gained the fewest black and Latinx residents.

This is despite the fact that the population in the former group of counties has risen by 2.5 million people, whereas in the latter category the total population has fallen by over 13,000.

Termin8tor » 02 Mar 2020 2:47 pm » wrote:

Misty » 02 Mar 2020 2:10 pm » wrote:You just admitted to spamming that crap you gaping asshole.
Post that **** again and you get another **** time out.
Don't believe me?
Try me.

You dishonestly attacked me, lying that I spread "hoaxes and conspiracy theories.

Now you're going to suspend me for citing facts?

In a thread in which you spread lies?

What a crock of ****.

Was the Trump campaign and presidency illegally spied on?

Were there four illegal FISA warrants used to falsely justify that?

Weren't there 14 key "mistakes" made in applying for those warrants?

Didn't the FISA court issue a strong statement about broad and illegal acts in getting FISA warrants?

Didn't one important FBI lawyer alter key evidence in order to get these FISA warrants?

Didn't the FBI make seventy one, guffaw, "mistakes" in its illegal investigation of Trump?

Weren't many high FBI and Justice Dept officials fired for excellent causes for their lies, corruption and unethical acts?

Isn't there an "exponentially expanding" criminal probe being conducted by Durham?

Haven't there been many well researched best selling books documenting this massive abuse of power?

To ask just a few of countless questions that will be answered hopefully by early summer if not sooner.

Run, Forrest, run!

Termin8tor » 02 Mar 2020 4:32 pm » wrote:

Misty » 02 Mar 2020 4:26 pm » wrote:Sniffles is trying to turn Bernie supporters against the Democratic party so that if Bernie is not the nominee they won't vote for anyone else.
There is no **** COUP.
People are voting.
The person with the most votes wins.
That's called democracy.

Anyone with just a little knowledge knows that the Democrat Establishment is in panic at having a Communist sympathizing wackjob leftist win the nomination.
And they're working behind the scenes to steal it from Sanders.

Termin8tor » 02 Mar 2020 4:32 pm » wrote:Trump is just enjoying the show, as we all are.

Termin8tor » 02 Mar 2020 4:29 pm » wrote:

Misty » 02 Mar 2020 3:05 pm » wrote:I can't believe you were stupid enough to actually post it again.
I guess you didn't believe me.
See ya later Precious.

So you suspended me for honestly defending myself. Psychopath.

Termin8tor » 02 Mar 2020 4:29 pm » wrote:When I opined that the death toll from Corona would likely fall because it was new and because of how China bungled it, you attacked and insulted me claiming "basic math" meant that the most recent death toll would remain at that high rate.

Misty » 02 Mar 2020 11:29 am » wrote: WTF are you babbling about?

Termin8tor » 03 Mar 2020 7:02 am » wrote:Anyone with just a little knowledge knows that the Democrat Establishment is in panic at having a Communist sympathizing wackjob leftist win the nomination.
And they're working behind the scenes to steal it from Sanders.

Termin8tor » 03 Mar 2020 6:54 am » wrote:

Misty » 02 Mar 2020 6:17 pm » wrote:

So you suspended me for honestly defending myself. Psychopath.

No. I suspended you for spamming that **** again after I warned you not to.

That's a lie. I didn't cite spam or ****.

Flarvis » 03 Mar 2020 6:35 am » wrote:

Misty » 02 Mar 2020 11:29 am » wrote: WTF are you babbling about?

you can't even count votes in a hick state..and you want to run things????? ...............you people need to clean up your own crooked crooked lives.leave us alone with your destructive ways

Misty » 03 Mar 2020 10:43 am » wrote:

Termin8tor » 03 Mar 2020 7:02 am wrote:Anyone with just a little knowledge knows that the Democrat Establishment is in panic at having a Communist sympathizing wackjob leftist win the nomination.
And they're working behind the scenes to steal it from Sanders.

Again, no one is STEALING anything.

That is a Trumplican talking point lie promoted by Sniffles and Russian bots like you.

Misty » 03 Mar 2020 10:59 am » wrote:Tell your Dear Leader to stop Tweeting, playing golf, fund raising and holding rallies and do his **** job.

Misty » 03 Mar 2020 10:53 am » wrote:

That's a lie.

I didn't cite spam or ****.

Are you playing stupid or are you really that **** dumb?
When you post the same thing over and over that is considered spamming, and that is what you keep doing.

Go ahead, tell me you are not doing that you **** liar, because I can prove it.

Spamming; posting useless crap on forums.

Misty » 03 Mar 2020 10:43 am » wrote:Again, no one is STEALING anything.

That is a Trumplican talking point lie promoted by Sniffles and Russian bots like you.