Overturning Ban on Ballot Dropboxes: A Victory for Voting Rights
Key insights
- 🗳️ Wisconsin Supreme Court overturns ban on ballot dropboxes, allowing voters to return their ballots securely
- ⚖️ Legal work by Mark's team made a difference in overturning the ban on ballot dropboxes
- 📬 Limiting access to dropboxes affects those without stamps and reliable mail service
- 🤥 Republican party targeting mail-in voting and dropboxes while perpetuating lies to their voters about the 2020 election and mail-in voting
- 👥 Republicans threatening to deploy volunteers as election vigilantes to intimidate voters and make it harder to vote
- ✅ Ensure voter enfranchisement by checking voter registration, obtaining accurate voting information, and using ballot dropboxes to avoid intimidation
- ⚖️ The importance of judicial elections in various states and their impact on shaping democracy
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Q&A
What is the significance of judicial elections in various states?
Judicial elections in various states have a significant impact on shaping democracy. There is an opportunity for Democrats and liberals to influence the outcome by voting for progressives or Democrats, especially in states like Texas and others where there's a shift towards a more progressive Judiciary.
What steps can individuals take to ensure voter enfranchisement?
To ensure voter enfranchisement, individuals should check voter registration, obtain accurate voting information, disregard disinformation, vote by mail if desired, and use ballot dropboxes to avoid intimidation. It's also essential to pay attention to state elections for judges as their decisions impact voting rights, with states like Texas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Arizona being crucial.
How are Republicans attempting to influence the use of dropboxes?
Republicans are threatening to deploy volunteers to monitor dropboxes, which intimidates voters, makes it harder to vote, and potentially facilitates cheating. This issue requires the attention of the mainstream media.
What tactics are the Republican party using to discourage the use of mail-in voting and dropboxes?
The Republican party is targeting mail-in voting and dropboxes, grooming their audience not to use them, and perpetuating lies about the 2020 election and mail-in voting, which can significantly impact voter behavior.
How are Republicans targeting dropboxes and mail-in voting?
Republicans are making it harder to vote by targeting dropboxes and mail-in voting, citing concerns about cheating. This limits access to dropboxes, especially for those without stamps or reliable mail service, impacting the voting process.
What is the impact of the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturning the ban on ballot dropboxes?
The Wisconsin Supreme Court's decision to overturn the ban on ballot dropboxes allows voters to securely return their ballots, ensuring easier access and participation in the electoral process.
- 00:00 Good news in Wisconsin as the Supreme Court overturns ban on ballot dropboxes, allowing voters to return their ballots securely. Republicans have targeted dropboxes, but legal work by Mark's team made a difference. Sign up for democracy.is for reliable voting and election news.
- 01:58 Republicans are making it harder to vote and citing concerns about cheating, but this limits access to dropboxes, especially for those without stamps or reliable mail service.
- 03:46 The Republican party is targeting mail-in voting and dropboxes, grooming their audience not to use them, and perpetuating lies to their voters about the 2020 election and mail-in voting.
- 05:26 Republicans are threatening to deploy volunteers to monitor dropboxes, which are actually election vigilantes trying to intimidate voters, make it harder to vote, and easier for them to cheat. Mainstream media should pay more attention to this issue.
- 07:07 Ensure voter enfranchisement by checking voter registration, obtaining accurate voting information, disregarding disinformation, voting by mail if desired, and using ballot dropboxes to avoid intimidation. Pay attention to state elections for judges as their decisions impact voting rights. States to watch include Texas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, and more.
- 08:56 The importance of judicial elections in various states and their impact on shaping democracy. There is an opportunity for Democrats and liberals to flip court seats in several states as they can influence the outcome by voting for progressives or Democrats.