Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Ann WarrenDespite cries to scrap Electoral College, it may not be so bad for Dems JPMorgan head says Trump tax law added .7B to its profit Buttigieg calls for abolishing death penalty MORE (D-Mass.) slammed Republicans in a speech Friday, saying "they know that if all the votes are counted, we’ll win every time."
"They’ll do whatever it takes to stop a full and fair count," she said, according to a copy of her prepared remarks to the National Action Network. "And they know that if all the votes are counted, we’ll win every time."
In her remarks to the civil rights organization founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton, Warren also referred to the disputed House race in North Carolina's 9th District last year, saying voter suppression was undertaken to "rig" the results.
"Just last year, Republicans in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District threw enough votes in the trash to rig an election," she added. "Massive voter suppression prevented [Democratic nominee] Stacey Abrams from becoming the rightful governor of Georgia."
North Carolina's State Board of Election ordered a new race in the district after allegations emerged that workers had collected absentee ballots in two rural counties on behalf of Republican candidate Mark Harris Mark HarrisNorth Carolina GOP chairman indicted on bribery charges Election scandal looms over House race in NC North Carolina House race redo draws nearly a dozen GOP candidates MORE, in violation of state law.
During her speech, Warren also called for a constitutional amendment recognizing the right to vote.
"We need a constitutional amendment establishing a nationally-recognized right to vote — and a right to get that vote counted," she said.
Warren, one of several prominent Democrats vying for the party's 2020 nomination, also endorsed eliminating the Senate filibuster.
athomps121 on April 5th, 2019 at 16:32 UTC »
Phyllis Schlafly acknowledged as much with a defense of North Carolina’s new voting law, which has been criticized for its restrictions on access, among other things.
“The reduction in the number of days allowed for early voting is particularly important because early voting plays a major role in Obama’s ground game. The Democrats carried most states that allow many days of early voting, and Obama’s national field director admitted, shortly before last year’s election, that ‘early voting is giving us a solid lead in the battleground states that will decide this election
Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai told a gathering of Republicans that their voter identification law would “allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.”
Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund conceded that Democrats had a point about the GOP’s focus on voter ID, as opposed to those measures—such as absentee balloting—that are vulnerable to tampering. “I think it is a fair argument of some liberals that there are some people who emphasize the voter ID part more than the absentee ballot part because supposedly Republicans like absentee ballots more and they don’t want to restrict that,” he said.
PresidentIndividual1 on April 5th, 2019 at 16:29 UTC »
Needs to be clarified, "counted equally." Democrats won Wisconsin State Assembly votes 1,306,878 - 1,103,505 in 2016, and despite the 200,000+ margin, Republicans won 63-36 in seats.
HonoredPeople on April 5th, 2019 at 16:28 UTC »
That's true. This is why Voting Rights legistation should be goal 1 of the democratic party. Not just a major bit, but rather a huge chunk of it.
Votes should come first. The vote is the power of intent. That power of intent favors the democratic party and it needs to be protected against foreign assets.