{"id":35051,"date":"2017-09-03T17:15:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T21:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=35051"},"modified":"2017-09-03T17:19:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T21:19:02","slug":"federal-government-must-produce-overarching-standards-for-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=35051","title":{"rendered":"Federal government must produce overarching standards for elections and voting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which is what I suggested when I got scared by reading the New York Times article on the 2016 Russian hacking and election snafus<\/a> in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

A simple idea, right? It’s one role I think the federal government takes upon itself: to override the tangle of state laws, rules and regulations–exemplified, but not exclusively, by election procedures and laws, now governed by each state with migraine-producing results–when state citizens are victimized by over-politicized and often corrupt state governments.<\/p>\n

Excellent current example: Texas. The state government of which is apparently a wholly owned subsidiary of massive corporations and has eliminated any restrictions to corporate hegemony.<\/p>\n

One set of federal rules, procedures and laws that would support our voting. In every state.<\/p>\n

Sounds so logical to me.<\/p>\n

But when I tweeted something along these simple lines–in reference to the NYT article–I got this response\/riposte:<\/p>\n

Robert<\/strong>\u200f\u00a0<\/span><\/span>@RobertBarber64<\/b><\/span><\/a> Sep 1<\/span><\/a> <\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Replying to @joyofsuing<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/div>\n
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federalizing cheating by Democrats? I think not.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(I’m sitting here, shaking my head, trying to figure out if there’s anything to say about this. I figured it out: there isn’t.)<\/p>\n

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Which is what I suggested when I got scared by reading the New York Times article on the 2016 Russian hacking and election snafus in North Carolina. A simple idea, right? It’s one role I think the federal government takes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1175,1265],"tags":[1165,2024,2022,2003,2023],"class_list":["post-35051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-the-facts-of-life","category-voting-rights","tag-2016-election","tag-federal-rules-for-voting","tag-north-carolinavoting-rights","tag-russian-election-hacking","tag-voting-problems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t