Suggestion: Use ANY AND ALL funds left over from the campaign on voter registration/re-registration

[Ken Burch]

Spending it on anything else right now is going to be a waste of money.

At this stage, nothing matters more than getting everyone registered, re-registered, and equipped with WHATEVER forms of id the state they are in demands.

[MichMan]

1. Has Jill Stein ever accounted for all the $$$ left over from the recount? n/t

[Ken Burch]

3. Don't know. I have nothing to do with her.

I didn't even donate to that.

[csziggy]

2. Or use it for a BlueMap Strategy the way the right wing had a RedMap Strategy

That is how they got control of state government especially the legislatures in 2010. That allowed them to gerrymander districts after the 2010 Census was out. Their gerrymandering is what set it up so that Democratic districts were split up and any Democratic elected officials needed more votes to be elected.

We've got the perfect opportunity to turn the tables and control the state legislatures by 2020. While I don't expect Democrats to do the blatant partisan gerrymandering that the Republicans did, our people could make the districts fair and try to pass laws/amendments to require fair redistricting so the Republicans cannot stack the deck in the future.

http://www.salon.com/2016/06/13/this_is_how_the_gop_rigged_congress_the_secret_plan_that_handcuffed_obamas_presidency_but_backfired_in_donald_trump/

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/27/ratfcked-the-influence-of-redistricting

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/27/ratfcked-the-influence-of-redistricting

If we DO NOT do this, we are forever lost. The Republicans have already set their sights on 2020 and plan to double down on partisan gerrymandering.

The 2020 redistricting war is (already) on
By Amber Phillips July 16, 2015

There's a hundred-million-dollar battle brewing for control of Congress, but it's not going to be resolved for seven more years, and the battles will take place in lands far away from Washington.

Both Democrats and Republicans think controlling state legislatures in 2020 is one of the most important political battles to fight, mostly for one reason: The power of the pen -- the kind that draws district lines, that is.

Five years out, both sides are in a fundraising battle to build war chests of $70 million to $125 million to swing state legislatures their way by 2020, when new electoral maps will get drawn across the country. The Republican State Leadership Committee announced Thursday it's launching RedMap 2020 and aiming to invest $125 million to expand their majority in the statehouses and redraw the nation's electoral lines.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/07/16/the-2020-redistricting-war-is-on/