'Panties in a Bunch': Kansas Official Blew Off Concerns About 2018 Polling Place Move

[turbinetree]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By Tierney Sneed
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February 26, 2020 10:00 a.m

The House Oversight Committee revealed Wednesday new information about how local election officials in Kansas botched the relocation of a polling place that put Dodge City’s single site for voting at a location more than a mile from the nearest bus stop.


The move by Ford County in 2018 to move the city’s sole polling place outside city limits prompted an ACLU lawsuit and national controversy, particularly because the city’s population is 60 percent Hispanic and the new location was not accessible by public transport or even sidewalk.

The move also prompted an investigation from the newly Democratic controlled House Oversight Committee, which also released on Wednesday details of parallel investigations into voting rights debacles in Texas and Georgia.

According to an update to those investigations the committee unveiled Wednesday, Ford County Clerk Debbie Cox dismissed concerns about how the relocation would affect voters, particularly those who don’t drive.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-oversight-kansas-voter-rights-investigation-update

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[guillaumeb]

1. GOP voter supression 101.

From the article:

Additionally, she admitted that some newly registered voters received registration confirmation notices that lasted incorrectly the old polling place.

Not an error. The GOP cheats in elections. It is an important part of their strategy.

[turbinetree]

2. I really like to know why people like this are not in jail.................

[lagomorph777]

13. "local election officials in Kansas botched the relocation of a polling place"

Nope, not botched. A feature, not a bug.

[Submariner]

3. Can we tattoo a scarlet "R" on their foreheads

so we know they're republican? That way if they collapse on the sidewalk in front of me, I'll be able to decide quickly whether to administer CPR, or just walk around them yelling at them for blocking the sidewalk.

I remember reading this story last year. These Trumpies are irredeemable.

[leftieNanner]

4. If a Republican collapses on the sidewalk, you must decide

Whether to have tuna salad or a cheeseburger for lunch.

[in2herbs]

5. If we were a true democracy it would be a crime to interfere with someone's vote. However,

we are the other way around.

[Hulk]

6. I'm hoping this gets reversed....but....

If not, this would be a great opportunity for someone(s) to shuttle people to the new voting location.

Now, before you jump all over my backside, let me clarify AGAIN...I'm not suggesting we should be content and let this crap slide. I'm just saying, if they get away with this manipulation of voters exercising their Constitutional right....then a possible answer would be people shuttling voters around...from house to precinct, from locations discontinued to the new polling place. We have to be prepared to fight these SOB's at their own game.

[SoCalNative]

9. Then they would just pass a law

making it illegal to drive people, other than disabled individuals, to polling locations as they are in Texas.

[yellowdogintexas]

15. it was actually bringing 3 or more disabled voters who could not enter the building

This would result in 3 or more people at once requiring curbside voting.

As an election judge, I would go to confession, take communion, rend my garments, wear ashes and sackcloth and face Mecca to avoid even one curbside voter. The procedure is a frickin nightmare. It is so awful I can't even begin to describe it. It takes two poll workers and more than one trip from the car to the voting table and back.

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/05/texas-is-about-to-make-it-illegal-for-friends-to-drive-to-the-polls-together-to-vote/

and a fact finder article https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2019-05-09/not-real-news-texas-bill-wont-ban-van-pools-to-polls

I thought it was van loads of any kind, so I am very glad to know that is not the case. Whenever I have had a curbside voter, I gently remind them they can request a vote by mail application.

[lostnfound]

7. They didn't "botch" it, they implemented it to sabotage the election. Nt

[richdj25]

8. Rachel Maddow covered this

back in 2018, while most of the country wasn't looking. Voter suppression by the GOP needs to be kept in the spot light, every time.

Rachel Maddow's crew catches Kansas officials in voter suppression lie, Kobach's racism exposed
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/1/1809042/-Rachel-Maddow-s-crew-catches-Kansas-officials-in-voter-suppression-lie-Kobach-s-racism-exposed

[maxrandb]

10. Know how you fix this crap?

Next time Dems are in charge, close every polling place in the Dumbfuckistan sections of the state and require MAGAts to have to travel 4 hours to their polling station in a gay bar.

Then when they show up tell them; "sorry, we didn't think to make sure we had extension cords for the voting machines.

[lagomorph777]

14. Simple. Only allow voting in large cities.

And no guns allowed in the polling places.

[yellowdogintexas]

16. if anyone brought a firearm into a polling place in Texas, they would be arrested

Election Judges have the same authority as a District Judge,so we have the authority to detain someone, and I personally would have law enforcement in there so fast it would make your head spin.

We have big signs posted all over the room: no firearms, no alcohol, and no cellphones or picture taking. You want to take photos of your kid's first vote? Do it outside.

[Maxheader]

11. Thaaatss kansaas!!

Laura,



Is trying to get things done for the people..expanding Medicaid..trying to put some money back in the pot after 8 years of little sammy brownbutts reduction of revenues which led to budget reductions...and on and on...She is fought every step of the way..

US House (Kansan seats) 3 / 4
Statewide offices 4 / 6
Seats in the Kansas Senate 28 / 40
Seats in the Kansas House 84 / 125

Because as been said here many a time...a conservative in this country is leashed to the wealthy who really hate paying taxes to support social programs...So they cheat..worthless bastards..

[not_the_one]

12. I don't know if they found a solution, but the democratic party

should have immediately leased two buses that would run, non-stop, in a circle from the bus stop to the polling place, and back. Then they should have made sure EVERYONE knew about it.

It would have done two things, gotten people to the polls to vote, and broadcasted that the democratic party was NOT going to tolerate this shit.

[Bengus81]

18. That's exactly what happend and even Dems personal cars....

That dirty trick BS by that Republican and her party BACKFIRED big time as Laura Kelly was elected as Gov of Kansas. That being said that "person" should have done JAIL time for that stunt. They showed the facility where the voting should have taken place on election day and there wasn't ANY construction going on. There was a bobcat parked about 500 feet away just for show.

[Progressive Jones]

17. The levels of GOP election fraud around the nation that I hear about blow my mind.

I live in Kane County, IL. It's adjacent to Cook County, where Chicago is.

Kane is run by moderate Republicans. However, they run a squeaky clean election here so far. I've seen it from the inside, as an Election Judge. This area was a bit Redder when I arrived 20 years ago. It's very Purple here now, and trending Blue. There will probably always be a strong Republican presence in the county government, because they get things done, and there are plenty of GOP voters.. It works very well. We're lucky here.

One thing's for certain. Even among GOP voters around here, Trump is no longer welcome.