Der Oberste Gerichtshof von Utah befürwortet eine gerechtere Karte für Zwischenwahlen und lehnt die Berufung der Republikaner ab

Been a nice day today. Great to know that Orange Covfefe will be up all night rage tweeting!!

As a Utahn I am very very cautiously happy.

Republicans have the gall to say they’re „protecting the integrity of elections,“ while making every effort to subvert the vote, deny elections, make voting more challenging, purge Democrats from voter rolls, crudely redraw maps, limit voter participation, alter the census in their favor, reshape districts along racial lines, and influence election outcomes.

That said, if MAGA is genuinely intent on „protecting election integrity“ and the democratic process, they should turn their attention to the myriad systemic issues that Donald Trump and the Republican party are exploiting in order to stay in power instead of obsessing over unsubstantiated conspiracy theories from five years ago.

In Republican states, you have lawmakers deciding who their voters are without any checks against their authority, and in states like CA, the decision is ultimately left up to multiple votes while the newly drawn maps are temporary—this juxtaposition helps illustrate the difference between authoritarianism and democracy.

If gerrymandering were eliminated and all maps were drawn equitably and fairly by independent commissions, Democrats would most likely benefit, but if the US were gerrymandered to the maximum extent possible, Republicans would gain the advantage.

This speaks to how Republicans have taken advantage of voter geography over the years. It’s also about Republicans having disproportionate control over state legislatures, and thus control over redistricting. Like in Texas where they’ve granted themselves the unanswerable authority to decide who their voters are and not the other way around.

The GOP is consolidating power at an alarming rate. Which means that their redistricting wars and voter suppression efforts will be ongoing, and the more this continues, the more it will chip away at the democratic process.

As far as tit for tat redistricting goes, do all of you pearl clutching hypocrites expect Democrats to stand by and let it happen? Do you expect Democrats to fear the same double standard that Republicans live by and NOT respond to these efforts in kind?

Republicans have benefitted from a skewed voter landscape for decades. We need a complete overhaul of our electoral and campaign finance systems, and it’s not going to happen while Republicans cling to power. For that matter, it’s not going to happen unless we elect more progressive and reformist candidates.

The larger issue however, is that Republicans have been steadily suppressing the vote for years; an effort accelerated in the aftermath of January 6th and by Trump’s ‚big lie“ of a stolen election.

The GOP has become more emboldened in this post Jan 6 environment; sowing distrust in our elections; piggybacking off Trump’s lies of election fraud; tapping into a stockpile of conspiracy theories, lies, and misinformation to dissuade and deceive the public and to carry out a nationwide campaign of voter suppression.

Republicans exploit the misinformed. They capitalize off of the ignorance, the partisanship and the mindless distrust of their voters to give themselves the legal authority to challenge election results while granting their party more power, control and supervision over our election system.

They have the capability now to deny, subvert, legally contest and overturn future elections with near impunity.

Worse yet, Trump has been federalizing the military in order to centralize authoritarian control over US cities; a paramilitary presence he will utilize to suppress the vote in upcoming elections.

Republicans are also using the courts to dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the voting Rights Act; targeting marginalized voters who are vulnerable to being sequestered.

Then there’s Trump’s recent remarks about „nationalizing“ US elections

So much for states rights… A bad faith argument by conservatives that almost always tries to rationalize why federal government intervention is only acceptable when it aligns with THEIR goals.

Ha. Ha. Fuck these Fascist cheaters..

They appealed all the way up and still lost. Embarrassing but they’ll try again in 2027.

Suck it GOP!

Thank fucking gods