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wyrmfedgrave · 24 days

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Shadow speaker: Hakeem Jeffries quietly wrests control from Mike Johnson https://www.axios.com/2024/04/21/hakeem-jeffries-speaker-mike-johnson-israel-ukraine

Good news for the Ukrainians fighting off Russia's invasion!!

Also, it looks like Hakeem Jeffries is quickly coming into his own.

He handled the vote for this much needed aid package deftly.

I think we're going to see more smart moves from this promising politician.

(Politician?! Ooo... Do I need to wash my mouth out with soap & water? No, Jakeem's a keeper!!)

#hakeem jeffries #handling Republikkkans #Congressional voting #Ukraine aid passes #history #aside

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whenweallvote · 4 months

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For the first time in decades, Louisiana has a second majority Black congressional district! After a two-year fight for fairness and equal representation, the new congressional map was signed into law Monday when a federal appeals court ruled the state’s congressional map to be withdrawn to comply with the Voting Rights Act.

As Ashley Shelton, President of Power Coalition of Equity and Justice, said, “This is a win for Black voters and a powerful moment in Louisiana’s history.”

#louisiana #voting rights news #voting news #gerrymandering #congressional maps #voting rights act #good news in voting rights

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taviokapudding · 6 months

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There's bipartisan talks in US Congress to send back all Palestinians (yes even US born ones) back to Palestine via a bill

In my opinion every single member of Congress and staff showing support for the idea need to be removed from office, have their hard drives investigated, and banned from all levels of public service and public office until further notice.

Palestinans don't want to leave home, but Congress using US tax payer dollars to fund Israel to murder all Palestinians regardless of religion (yes, some of the Christian families who's ancestors knew Jesus Christ personally who had been living in Palestine have had their bloodlines fully eradicated) or ethnic status (there are US citizens who are mixed that have been unaccounted for or trapped in the bombing zone) is why Palestinians are US citizens and permanent residents in the first place.

Israel has universal health care, education, and access to US weapons because of Congress lying and gas lighting US tax payers about their spending. There would be no Israel if the US never got involved in the first place. And the majority of US citizens bipartisanly don't want to fund Israel at all at any level - we want our money to go to our infrastructure. It's ridiculous to suggest a mass deportation that would solve nothing the US masses want and only hurt more innocents.

Let it be known- that bill and backing it is an admission of guilt for the enthic cleaning and genocide of the Palestinians by the US government- US Congress is okay with sending unarmed civilians (even US citizens) to their deaths to hide their crimes.

#mun post #palestine #oh and tumblr i see you not letting me save tags #gaza #israel #this is why i told 30k+ people to boycott your store #dont try me staff or I'll tell everyone what stocks your higher ups and ceo own & how to boycott them #us citizens who can vote keep this in mind during the #free palestine #2024 congressional elections #because all their seats go up for election next year alongside the president

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halles-comet · 2 months

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WELP

#the Tok was not a fun place to be working this week gang!#every day I have to watch congressional votes! more than when I worked in politics!

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bedlamsbard · 1 year

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unfortunately I am obsessed with the fact that the Sokovia Accords debacle went down during an election year. you think OUR 2016 election discourse was bad.

why do the events of IM3 not get cited as a motivating factor? presumably because (a) Tony and Rhodey are pro-Accords (though under the Accords they wouldn’t be able to act in those circumstances) and (b) Matthew Ellis is running for reelection and doesn’t want to make himself look like a victim or remind anyone his first VP was a traitor working with biologically-modified terrorists.

(see also my previous contention that Matthew Ellis only became president because of the Chitauri invasion.)

#bedlam watches the mcu #according to the marvel wiki (I think via aos) the congressional votes on the accords were hilariously one-sided #which was legitimately NOT POSSIBLE in 2016 #and CERTAINLY would not have happened in an election year #mcu politics

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 10 months

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Alabama Republicans, under orders of the U.S. Supreme Court to redraw congressional districts to give minority voters a greater voice in elections, rejected calls Monday to craft a second majority-Black district and proposed a map that could test what is required by the judges’ directive.

Lawmakers must adopt a new map by Friday after the high court in June affirmed a three-judge panel’s ruling that Alabama’s existing congressional map — with a single Black district out of seven statewide — likely violated the Voting Rights Act. In a state where more than one in four residents is Black, the lower court panel had ruled in 2022 that Alabama should have another majority-Black congressional district or something “close to it” so Black voters have the opportunity to “elect a representative of their choice.”

Republicans, who have been resistant to creating a certain Democratic district, proposed a map that would increase the percentage of Black voters in the 2nd congressional district from about 30% to nearly 42.5%, wagering that will satisfy the court’s directive.

House Speaker Pro Tempore Chris Pringle, who serves as co-chairman of the state redistricting committee, said the proposal complies with the order to provide a district in which Black voters have the “opportunity to elect the representative of their choice.”

“The goal here, for me, was to provide an opportunity for African-Americans to be elected to Congress in the second congressional district,” Pringle said.

However, the National Redistricting Foundation, one of the groups that backed challenges to the Alabama map, called the proposal “shameful” and said it would be challenged.

“It is clear that Alabama Republicans are not serious about doing their job and passing a compliant map, even in light of a landmark Supreme Court decision,” said Marina Jenkins, executive director of the National Redistricting Foundation.

She called that a pattern seen throughout the state’s history “where a predominately white and Republican legislature has never done the right thing on its own, but rather has had to be forced to do so by a Court.”

The Permanent Legislative Committee on Reapportionment approved the proposal in a 14-6 vote that fell along party lines. The proposal was introduced as legislation Monday afternoon as lawmakers convened a special session to adopt a new map by a Friday deadline set by the three-judge panel. House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter said he believes the new district will be a swing district that could elect either a Democratic candidate or a Republican.

“I think that the models will show that it could go either way, probably. I think all the court’s asked for was a fair chance. I certaintly think that map does it. I don’t think there’s any question about that,” Ledbetter said.

Democrats accused Republicans of rushing the process and thwarting the court’s directive.

Sen. Vivian Davis Figures, a Democrat from Mobile, said the court was clear that the state should create a second majority-Black district or something close to it.

“42% is not close to 50. In my opinion 48, 49 is close to 50,” Figures said. She had urged colleagues to adopt a proposal by the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case that would make the 2nd district 50% Black.

Under the Republican plan, the state would continue to have one majority Black district, which is now represented by Rep. Terri Sewell. The Black voting age population of that district would drop from about 55% to 51.6%

Rep. Chris England, a Democrat from Tuscaloosa, said he also doesn’t think the GOP proposal would satisfy the court’s directive. He said Republican lawmakers pushed through their proposal without a public hearing or producing an analysis of the partisan leanings of the district.

“The map that we adopted, nobody had any input on. There was no public input on it, not subject to a public hearing — and now it’s going to be the map of choice,” England said.

Deuel Ross, a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund who argued the case before the Supreme Court, said they will challenge the proposal if it is enacted by the Alabama Legislature.

“Any plan with a low Black voting age population does not appear to comply with the Court’s instruction,” Ross wrote in an email.

Partisan politics underlies the looming redistricting fight. A higher percentage of Black voters increases the chances that a the seat will switch from GOP to Democratic control.

Pollster Zac McCrary said predicting a district’s partisan leanings depends on a number of metrics, but “getting a district too far below the mid 40s in terms of Black voter composition could certainly open the door for Republicans.”

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nappingpaperclip · 5 months

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If y’all cannot fully commit to saying “I have never, ever voted for political leader who has committed genocide no matter what” you guys no longer have morals or a spine. I’ll tell you where you can shove your ‘vote blue no matter who’ politics

#I’d gladly give up my right to transition or have an abortion in a second if it meant no genocide but so far we have gotten the bad option #for both #I live in the south! Biden being president has done nothing for me. yknow what has? voting blue in congressional elections

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antiadvil · 7 months

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you know what. fuck it. i'm running for speaker of the US house of representatives. my qualifications are that i'm loud and i have more people who like me than jim jordan

#politics #us politics #speaker of the house #republicans #technically not a joke #you don't need to be in the house to be speaker #everyone who lives in a republican congressional district:#call your representative and tell them to vote for lou from tumblr #i would do a very good job #lou is loud

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jennyboom21 · 2 years

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#mary peltola #2022 special elections #Alaska special elections #democratic congressional seat #ranked choice voting #blue wave #sarah palin #indigenous women #native Alaskan #indigenous elected officials

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enny43 · 2 years

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Let's talk about Colorado's 3rd congressional district.

Lauren Boebert and Adam Frisch are locked in a ridiculously close election in a race a lot of people are watching very closely. Seeing Boebert unseated would be a huge win and may turn out to be crucially important in a midterm the Dems (shockingly) still have a chance to take the House in. It has been razer thin for several days, and over a long lapse in reporting, Fisch lead by less than 70 votes with ~90% of the vote in.

As of right now, Boebert holds a lead of 1,136 votes with about 98% of the votes counted. It might take until next Thursday for the remaining votes to be counted and a winner declared, as there are an estimated 5,898 votes still to be counted. This does not include overseas and military votes or ballots that need to be cured, but we'll get to that.

First lets address a question many people have:

Why is this taking so long?

The short answer is, it's not. The main reason it seems to be taking longer than most races is directly related to how close the race actually is. See when news media "call" races, they are actually just projecting the winner based on the possibilities in remaining math. If it becomes reasonably impossible for a certain candidate to win, they call the race. The projected loser may even concede at this time. But that is not an official result, nor does the counting stop at that point. Just like in CO-3, counting continues following the guidelines set by the state to tabulate an official result. This race only hasn't been called yet because with the remaining votes, either candidate can still win. Colorado also has a gold-standard level election system.. so we can expect counting to take a little longer due to such a high percentage of ballots there being mail-in (Colorado sends ballots to all voters by default)

As far as the timeline goes, this is not abnormal.

So what are Adam Frisch's odds of winning and how can we calculate them? This is a more complicated answer, but I'll do my best to keep it simple.

As I said, there are an estimated 5,898 votes remaining to be counted. The bulk of them (2,365) come from Pueblo County which favors Frisch by 3.3%, and another large share (700 votes) comes from Pitkin County which favors Frisch by 29.2%

If all math followed those numbers, this would be a pickup of 565 votes for Adam Frisch. Boebert also has an advantage in Mesa County of 7.8% where there are 726 estimated votes remaining. This would give her a pickup of ~112 votes. In the remaining counties where there are less than 300 votes remaining to be counted, we can estimate that the votes would mostly cancel out, with a slight edge for Frisch.

All the math with these smaller counties included points to Frisch coming up short by about 770 votes (this would still fall in the range of an automatic recount).. but this does not account for all the outstanding ballots.

There are still an indeterminate number of absentee ballots from overseas and military votes to count, in addition to provisional ballots that may have been cast on Election Day (Colorado has same-day voter registration, so these are uncommon).. and there is also a curing period for ballots that may have had a mistake and need to be verified (such as someone forgetting to sign the envelope when mailing their ballot in)

We can expect the military and overseas ballots to favor Frisch. Not only does the military slightly lean Dem as it is, Southern Colorado is home to a lot of active duty Air Force which has an even more liberal tilt than the military broadly. As for the cured ballots, it's hard to say.. but my intuition tells me Democratic voters would be more energized and likely to fix their ballots by the deadline (there's also a lot of outreach being done to help people through this process, something I imagine the Boebert camp will be less capable of doing)

Are there any guarantees the remaining votes will follow the trend exactly? Of course not. They may favor one candidate or the other to a greater degree than the averages represent. Without knowing how many outstanding ballots there are from the military, overseas, and cured counts.. it is fundamentally impossible to know how this race will turn out. What I can say is not to expect many updates between now and next week. This one is going to come down to the wire, and whatever candidate ends up winning will do so by a very tight margin. No matter the result, I expect a recount will be triggered leading us to even more waiting to find out the official results.

My suggestion to everyone is to be patient and let this process play out. I have no reason to be worried about the results of this race, which is already much closer than anyone expected it would be going into Election Day. After all, CO-3 is an R+6 district. The race being this close is something no one expected.

Here's a chart with all of the data I discussed:

#politics #democracy #lauren boebert #adam frisch #colorado #congressional elections #2022 midterms #house of representatives #election #vote #counting

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 2 years

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#us politics #2022 #2022 midterms #2022 elections #colorado #Colorado district 3 #gop #republicans #conservatives #congressional voting record #voting rights act #chips act #violence against women act #american rescue plan #rep. lauren boebert

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mobliterated · 7 months

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I implore you all to not get all of your political news from this website and other social media only

#gladie talks #misinfo be spreading again #coincidentally right near another election #and coincidentally people are forgetting that the president isn’t all supreme #y’all talk so much about congressional elections and then completely forget about congress/HOR works #I am once again reminding y’all about the psyop stuff that gets injected into social media to make you not vote/everyone Bad #do your own research #be an informed voter #don’t let social media be your only source #engage in critical thinking #I’m so tired of seeing this repeat every single election cycle #tumblr is not a news source #it is a blogging site #fuckin hell

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xlntwtch2 · 7 months

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AP News article on 10/26/23...

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge ruled Thursday that some of Georgia’s congressional, state Senate and state House districts were drawn in a racially discriminatory manner, ordering the state to draw an additional Black-majority congressional district.

U.S. District Judge Steve Jones, in a 516-page order, also ordered the state to draw two new Black-majority districts in Georgia’s 56-member state Senate and five new Black-majority districts in its 180-member state House.

Jones’ ruling follows an eight-day September trial in which the plaintiffs argued that Black voters are still fighting opposition from white voters and need federal help to get a fair shot, while the state argued court intervention on behalf of Black voters wasn’t needed....

#voting matters - stay aware of changing congressional districts everywhere USA

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kp777 · 11 months

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How Alabama discriminated against Black voters – visualized

#u.s. supreme court #alabama congressional map #gerrymandering #voting rights act

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glompcat · 2 years

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Yesterday I debated on sharing screenshots of various news sites when the Dems won the senate and then decided not to since for some reason I could not imagine anyone not knowing already, so since I have been proved wrong since then-

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/us/politics/jim-marchant-nevada.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/13/trump-republicans-rivals-2024/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/12/desantis-florida-midterms-2024-trump/

#DeSantis is now anticipated to be the GOP's 2024 star #so you know #they are still a party of nightmare bigots obs #but watching them turn on Trump sure has been something #Fox News has been bashing the guy even #also lol at how the reporting on NY shifting more red keeps neglecting to mention what happened to our congressional map #where our redistricting got handed over in the courts to a grad student from Pennsylvania #who set out to make as many districts in NY state as much of a 50/50 red blue split as possible #and in the process violated the NY state constitution in a MAJOR way #since he split communities of color in a manner where they were no longer in the majority in as many districts as they had been #our constitution says that diluting the vote of margenalized populations like that is not ok #but by that point things were so close to the elections we had to use that map this year #so like....#yeah NY shifted red in the house #THE MAP LITERALLY WAS DESIGNED TO DO THAT by one (1) person who has never lived in our state

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icantalk710 · 2 years

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Just got back from helping to light on fire thousands of corporate/real estate/Republican dollars spent propping up a moderate Democrat against a socialist pushing universal rent control, universal healthcare in NY, building public renewables and tackling the climate crisis, and more, and boy are my everythings tired

#ore no kao #Kristen Gonzalez woot #feels so good to land a solid win #after my friend's race in June didnt go too well also due to said types of money spent against him #it's funny how real estate vultures and fossil fuels/etc mobilize when a socialist/progressive runs on things like lower rent and climate #shame i have to go to the office tmrw wouldve been fun celebrating more with fellow DSA folks #[and maybe seeing more of a cute guy or two at the party i was at]#[no joke saw so many cute/hot guys while tabling in Manhattan and having to be 'hey have you voted?' and they just walk off... 😩 lol]#also Kristen *trounced* a Crowley--AOC famously beat Joe Crowley who was 4th in line to succeed Pelosi in Congressional leadership #and Kristen just beat his cousin 58-32 🔥🔥🔥#good vibes #also my new state senator who's a good progressive survived a primary from the corporate machine in uptown Manhattan #and another uptown progressive survived his #woot #apologies to any international or non-Northeastern US followers to whom these local politics make little sense lol

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