2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: WE Are NOT the Problem [View all]Gothmog
(145,343 posts)I am not sure what you did but I help set up the statewide hotline for a group led by Battleground Texas, the DNC Victory Council Program and the Clinton campaign. I also trained and supervised 200 plus poll watchers in Harris County. The DOJ, Marc Elias, the Victory Counsel program (which is different from the DNC Victory Council program) and a group of plaintiffs have sued like crazy to fight voter suppression.
Chad Dunn and the DOJ got an important ruling from the 5th Circuit on the voter id law with an opinion written by a former Baker Botts partner. Where possible lawsuits were brought. If a plaintiff could have been identified, the cross check program would have been challenged more directly. As is, Marc Elias got a similar program in Ohio enjoined with stricken voters allowed to vote. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-court-rules-ohios-voter-purge-unconstitutional/story?id=42343068
Ohio, a battleground state in the presidential race, removed the names of tens of thousands of registered voters under what it calls its supplemental process."
Under this controversial method, voters were taken off the registration rolls after six years of not voting, regardless of whether they remained eligible to vote.
As ABC News reported in June, many of those removed were from low-income neighborhoods or neighborhoods that tended to vote Democrat.
It is not accurate to say that efforts were not taken with respect to voter suppression. The poll watchers and statewide hotline helped stop some voter suppression including forcing Bexar county to use the correct signage as to the voter id law.
I have been volunteering on voter suppression efforts for a long time. It is not that easy to fight these efforts but I can assure that Democrats were fighting and achieved some successes. Harris County elected a Democrat as District Attorney for the first time in 36 years. There was still a great deal of voter suppression existing but I can assure you that it is being fought where it can be.
Fighting voter suppression is hard but can be fun. I help get a trump supporter arrested for trying to vote twice. You may want o volunteer in this area.
I can assure that if Marc Elias and the DOJ could have found proper plaintiffs there would have been a lawsuit on cross check.