2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSanders Sues in Ohio to Protect Young and Minority Voters
https://berniesanders.com/sanders-sues-in-ohio-to-protect-young-and-minority-voters/"U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders presidential campaign on Tuesday sued Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted in federal court over his unconstitutional attempt to block young voters from casting ballots in the states March 15 presidential primary election.
"It is an outrage that the secretary of state in Ohio is going out of his way to keep young people significantly African-American young people, Latino young people from participating."
Sen. Sanders
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ohio, along with six Ohio 17-year-olds seeking to vote in next weeks presidential primary in the Buckeye State. It alleges that Husteds directive would arbitrarily discriminate against young voters, who U.S. census data show are more heavily African American and Latino than older groups of voters.
The legal action seeking injunctive relief against the secretary of state was announced by Sanders at a plane-side news conference before a flight from Michigan to Florida. I want to do everything that I can to encourage people to participate. Unfortunately, in the state of Ohio there is an effort by the secretary of state to do exactly the opposite, Sanders said.
Ohio is among more than 20 states where 17-year-olds who will turn 18 by the general election in November are allowed to vote in primaries. Last December, however, the secretary of state decided the young voters were ineligible to participate in the presidential primary. The lawsuit contends that action discriminates against minorities. It also says that the secretary of states actions violate the Due Process and Equal Protection provisions of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...."
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Knowing she can not win the general election.
slipslidingaway
(21,210 posts)just from a small sampling people will not vote for her, this is our election to lose
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)No way the GOP can win Ohio with Sanders on top of the ticket. (And tellingly: no Republican has ever been elected president without winning Ohio.)
southerncrone
(5,506 posts)Go Bernie! Keep the fire at their feet. We are all sick of this crap in politics!
slipslidingaway
(21,210 posts)southerncrone
(5,506 posts)pat_k
(9,313 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)slipslidingaway
(21,210 posts)to continue the good fight.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)Have they joined this fight or are they sitting this one out? I'm sure they have great lawyers and could really help.
Clinton would clearly benefit from this voter suppression against young people. Just sayin. Young voters are like 75% for Sanders.
delrem
(9,688 posts)but it seems aren't.
For the love of jeezbudakrishna and all the saints, why are Dems using black box voting machines, still.
Allowing them to be used in the coming GE.
Why haven't you got democracy even that far together, that you would use a black box machine and exit happily, not knowing what the fuck just happened?
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)Thanks for the thread, slipslidingaway.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Euphoria
(448 posts)for the people in Bernie Sanders' candidacy. And we haven't had a candidate like this in decades. And look what the condition of this country is now.