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The Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act,
threatening the equal representation of Black voters,
and potentially greenlighting Republican gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterm election.
The case concerns Louisiana’s six congressional districts,
two of which are majority-Black,
in approximate proportion to the Black population of the state.
A previous map that gave Black voters only one district in which the…

Will Supreme Court Gut Voting Rights Act & Weaken Electoral Power of Black Americans?
The Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, threatening the equal representation of Black voters, and potentially greenlighting Republican gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterm election. The case concerns Louisiana’s six congressional districts, two of which are majority-Black, in approximate proportion to the Black population of the state. A previous map that gave Black voters only one district in which they were a majority was ruled to have vio…

Fox News Poll: Voters say White House is doing more harm than good on economy (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-voters-say-white-house-doing-more-harm-than-good-economy
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p148#a251119p148

“Is it an accident that polling this week shows him with the lowest approval ratings he’s had this term? Or that 1 in 4 Trump voters now regret their vote or are disappointed in his performance?
No. It’s not. Americans are turning on him—it’s a fact…one thing nearly all Americans agree on is that speech must not be censored. These attacks are going to backfire. They already are.”

Chop Wood, Carry Water 9/18
With love at the center.

The latest poll from Data for Progress
found that nearly six in 10 American voters would blame the GOP or Trump for a government shutdown,
-- not Democrats
One expert told Newsweek that the poll's findings aren't "terribly surprising."
Congress is facing an end-of-the-month deadline to pass a budget bill to fund the federal government or face a shutdown.
The impacts of a shutdown are myriad
—hundreds of thousands of federal workers may be …

Republicans Get Warning About Government Shutdown in New Poll
A new poll shed light on whether voters would blame Democrats or Republicans for a government shutdown.

Not how we typically court the electorate, dude
Eric Adams says many Gen Z voters who back his NYC mayoral rival Mamdani are ‘nasty, radicalized and hate our country’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/eric-adams-new-york-election-mamdani-b2830456.html

Our Congress is too cowardly to cancel Trumps contract.
But El Cheeto's show is loosing money, at lot more than a measly $40million/year. And viewers and voters are tuning away in droves.
The 2026 mid term elections are only a bit more than a year away. I am surprised that the obvious sole issues of importance are not being raised by aspiring candidates:
- No funding, i.e. zero dollars, zero - appropriated. Better a non functioning government than one that is activel…

Worries grow about Black, Hispanic voter turnout for Sherrill in New Jersey governor's race (Caroline Vakil/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5561741-new-jersey-minority-voters-sherrill-outreach/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251018/p49#a251018p49

Apparently the NixOS EC closed all questions posted by @… without further explanation, which I only saw because I already answered some of them. It took me a bit to realize this is because only eligible voters are allowed to ask questions for the NixOS SC election. Unfortunate as I think they were valid and valuable.

Republican state legislators in California filed suit on Tuesday
to block a mid-year redistricting plan meant to counter Texas’s effort to redraw congressional district lines.
The emergency petition argues that the process being used in the California assembly violates laws requiring a 30-day period between the introduction of legislation and voting on it.

North Carolina Elections Chief Demands Voters' Full Social Security Numbers From DMV (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/north-carolina-elections-chief-demands-voters-full-social-security-numbers-from-dmv/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p148#a251016p148