House committee chairs sent out a letter Friday requesting information from four battleground states about their preparedness for November’s elections.
Committee on House Administration Chair Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Chairman James Clyburn (D-SC) requested the information from elections officials in Florida, Georgia, Texas and Wisconsin.
“No voter should be forced to wait for hours in line or risk their health to exercise their constitutionally protected right to vote,” they wrote wrote. “Election administrators can prevent these unacceptable outcomes by following [CDC] recommendations and offering adequate early voting, sufficient polling locations and hours, and mail-in or absentee voting options. Officials must plan now to avoid the last-minute consolidation or closure of polling sites, long lines, and shortages of poll workers.”
They said that they selected the states due to their poor performance in the primaries when it came to extremely long lines or a scarcity of polling places.
The Wisconsin primaries in particular became emblematic of an election day spun into chaos by the pandemic. A last minute state Supreme Court decision kept the in-person voting going ahead as planned, despite the COVID-19 outbreak. An eleventh hour Supreme Court decision also cast doubt on which postmarks could be counted on absentee ballots, adding more confusion to a primary that was already under-staffed with too few polls. Dozens of voters were infected from their election day activities.
The chairs are requesting the information by August 26 to ensure that polling places are sufficiently staffed and that enough polls are open across the states.
The four letters are similar; read the Wisconsin one here:
Here is how the Trump campaign is preparing for the election in Eastern Iowa. They filed to disenfranchise American citizen voters in eastern Iowa by going after the election officials. The link below shows the filing by the Campaign.
Cedar Rapids just got hit with a storm that damaged 9 of 10 homes. The cleanup will last until December. Power is expected to be out for a week. I hope that in light of all, that the court rules on behalf of American citizen voters, and not on the court filing of some tin-pot dictator wanna-be.
https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/politics/donald-j-trump-2020-campaign-lawsuit-iowa-gop-absentee-ballot-mailings/524-076b7cff-61b5-4514-9a4e-771ef00426c0
If they’re doing this to save Trump and Joni in Iowa, their internals must be staggeringly bad.
This is either going to demoralize or galvanize people. But I can assure you, demoralization will lead to a Trump victory in November.
It’s just one poll.
Kyle Griffin
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NPR/PBS/Marist poll: Joe Biden 53% Donald Trump 42% Trump approval Approve 39% Disapprove 54% Just 31% say they can trust the COVID information coming from the president.
Biden +11. Folks who aren’t Trumpers detest the man.
“This is either going to demoralize or galvanize people. But I can assure you, demoralization will lead to a Trump victory in November”
Linn and Johnson are the two bluest counties in the state. Lots of people were already activated, with regard to voting and political activism. I hope that independent voters in Iowa see this GOP move as an attack on democracy, and that other blue-tinged counties in Iowa file an amicus on behalf of the defendant counties.