Brace for a Voter-Turnout Tsunami

[applegrove]

Brace for a Voter-Turnout Tsunami

June 13, 2019 at 12:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 165 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/06/13/brace-for-a-voter-turnout-tsunami/

"SNIP....

“Signs are growing that voter turnout in 2020 could reach the highest levels in decades—if not the highest in the last century—with a surge of new voters potentially producing the most diverse electorate in American history,” The Atlantic reports.

“But paradoxically, that surge may not dislodge the central role of the predominantly white and heavily working-class voters who tipped the three Rust Belt states that decided 2016: Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Even amid a tide of new participation, those same voters could remain the tipping point of the 2020 election.”

......SNIP"

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. If the 2018 Mid Terms were any indication......

Democrats stand to fare well.

Issues like Abortion, Women's rights, voting rights, etc., will surely be reasons to get out the vote.

[applegrove]

2. Healthcare, education, gun safety are all issues that favour democrats.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Those too. Thank you.....

[NightWatcher]

4. Brace for trump to win a nail biter, just like last time.

[John Fante]

6. Your losing mentality is noted.

[Miigwech]

5. Broken voter machines in Detroit need to be fixed now

They only had to steal 11,000 votes in Michigan to give the State to trump ... Dem's, please focus on voting machines so this theft can't happen again ...

More than 80 voting machines in Detroit malfunctioned on Election Day, officials say, resulting in ballot discrepancies in 59% of precincts that raise questions about the reliability of future election results in a city dominated by Democratic and minority voters.

“This is not the first time,” adds Daniel Baxter, elections director for the city. “We’ve had this problem in nearly every election that we administer in the city of Detroit.” Baxter says that the machines were tested for accuracy before election day in accordance with state and federal guidelines, but that sometimes the machines “hit up against each other and malfunction” as they’re being transported to the precincts.

The machines were optical scanners, meaning they registered and counted the votes marked on paper ballots. Many of the machines jammed over the course of election day, perhaps because Michigan had a two-page ballot this year, which meant that paper ballots were collected but inconsistently recorded by the machines. Michigan does not have early voting, so any mechanical malfunction would necessarily happen on election day, since that’s the only day the machines are used. That’s why so many machines malfunctioned at the same time. “You don’t expect a laptop to last 10 years, and you shouldn’t expect a voting machines to last 10 years,” says Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey.

https://time.com/4599886/detroit-voting-machine-failures-were-widespread-on-election-day/

[NewJeffCT]

11. I think Flint had problems as well

Detroit and Flint are both overwhelmingly Democratic.

Hopefully, a Democratic governor, AG and Secretary of State can start to rectify that.

[bobbieinok]

7. Voter Suppression!! Gerrymandering!!

[Nay]

8. The Republican solution to a lot of Dems coming out to vote is to severely restrict the

number of voting machines and voting precincts in Dem areas. Expect that to be a part of 2020.

[UniteFightBack]

9. I FUCKING HOPE SO. I can't stand to think how many people win still vote for this scumbag. nt

[Takket]

10. Expect a lot more targeted poll location closings

Rethugs will be looking to create huge lines so working Dem voters will have to give up on waiting to go to work.