Posted on 11/25/2020 5:17:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When Michigan and Pennsylvania certified their election results this week, they proved that our democratic processes are resilient, capable of withstanding the onslaught of lawsuits and other measures by President Trump and his legal team to toss out votes.
But voting rights advocates and activists still worry that even if the president's efforts to undermine the vote in predominantly Black communities didn't succeed, they could still have a negative long-term impact.
The Trump team's questioning of the legitimacy of the votes in cities like Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Atlanta without presenting any evidence in court of large-scale illegal voting "really is a dangerous and racialized narrative about voter fraud," says Monique Lin-Luse, an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which filed a lawsuit against the Trump campaign on behalf of Black voters in Michigan.
The message those efforts send is that "the will of those voters are not to be seen as legitimate; their political will as expressed at the ballot box doesn't have the same weight," said Lin-Luse. "It's antithetical to a functioning democracy where every vote is supposed to count."
The suit filed by the LDF last week argues that the efforts made by the Trump legal team to pressure local officials not to certify the election results violated provisions in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlaws voter intimidation, threats, and coercion.
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Both of them?
Okay I stand corrected. There are three of them who voted for bite me.🙄
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