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Yes, if we could get Florida (29 electoral votes) and Virginia (13 electoral votes) back in the fold by 2016 and add that to Texas's 38 votes that would certainly help.
We'll never get NY and Ca but we might not need them.

The Republican party should then try doing that by reaching the hearts and minds of poor, young, and minority voters, rather than trying to make it tougher for them to vote. It was because of such shenanigans that people felt their voting rights were in danger, and so were willing to wait literally hours in line to cast a ballot to keep that right alive.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Umm........ commuting to polls and long lines are pretty much the norm, especially in the evenings when most people are getting off work.
Been there done that but I don't fee "marginalized".
Luckily my present voting precinct is within walking distance of my house (wasn't always) but there is still a long and sssllllooowww line to stand in.

You stood in line up to six hours? And did you have most of your polling stations closed? And even have the rival party send out notices to you for voting dates that were wrong?

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

NY Times
Several recent polls and studies suggest that long waiting times in some places depressed turnout in 2012 and that lines were longest in cities, where Democrats outnumber Republicans. In a New York Times/CBS News poll taken shortly after Election Day, 18 percent of Democrats said they waited at least a half-hour to vote, compared with 11 percent of independents and 9 percent of Republicans.

Washington Post
For the majority of voters, lines were not a huge problem. “Two-thirds of voters in 2012 waited less than 10 minutes to vote, and that only 3% of voters waited longer than an hour,” he writes in a new study of the election. The national average wait time actually fell between 2008 and 2012 from 17 to 13 minutes, he finds.
But when it was bad, it was very, very bad. For those who waited longer than an hour, the average reported wait time was 110 minutes. Where was it bad? In Florida, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina, wait times exceeded 20 minutes, with Florida voters enduring the worst lines.

Huffington Post
The study points out that the findings don't suggest discrimination on an individual basis, but rather a failure by precincts with high levels of minority voters, typically in urban areas, to appropriately address the issue of long lines. For example, the difference in wait times between black and white voters in the same zip code was less than a minute on average.


Above are three liberal sources on this and excerpts of their ramblings and I don't see anything about 6 hour waits. 110 minutes at the most and while that's too long it's no 6 hours, either.
If anything it was a failure on the part of the precincts to be prepared and not a conspiracy to suppress voters.

What's next, longer lines at the grocery stores in the poorer districts a plot to starve them?

Well, that's all I'm going to put into this and I've already dignified it more than it deserves to be.
Find someone else to kick this around with.

I was quoting CNN and MSNBC.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

When more than half of people think that JFK was killed by the Government, they might just be right.

As for the moon landing, that happened when America developed the Nutron Bomb, which became lost, and was never brought up again. We did all sorts of things to misdirect the USSR into spending money in wrong directions.

They were first in space, Sputnik, manned flight, and would never settle for being second to the moon. It was Propaganda, cold war bluffs, and they also forgot where they landed, which modern telescopes could see.

View the film, the sky is black with no stars, no shot of earth in the background, and walking on the moon would be like walking in flour, but their steps produce no dust. Second dust lacking, is hanging in the low gravity void. At the reduced gravity, with no wind to move it, the landing would have blanketed the area in dust, that would have taken months to settle.

Sunlight is much stronger on the Moon, dust particles would light up. There is nothing.

They brought a golf club and balls to the Moon?

Sending them would have cost a fortune, cut the payload for things like Oxygen, putting the mission at risk, and cutting back on Science.

For less weight they could have brought a sheet of Mylar, and set up a reflective mirror that could be seen from Earth.

On the Moon I would weigh about twenty pounds. With a space suit, thirty, I could jump up over ten foot, and float slowly down.

A more basic gravity experiment, drop something, and watch it fall slowly.

No basic Physics was done, no evidence viewable from Earth, no dust,which all points to it being shot in Texas.

As for Reptillion Shapeshifters, watch a session of Congress, they are not human, and not good at faking it, even wearing makeup.

All Government and Religion survives on lies. Barry ran on, Change you can believe in, not killing Americans with drones, without at least a fact finding in Court.

We killed a million in Iraq, and never found those mobile Bioweapons trucks. The only bio weapons that showed up was weaponized Anthrax, which we swore we did not have, made at the Pennington seed company labs in Baton Rouge. Genetically Modified Food is a threat, as less people leads to more control.

MK Ultra did some bio weapons experiments on American cities.

Iran Contra was funded by bring in Coke, making Crack, and spreading it around, a two for, self funding the CIA, and setting back the Black Civil Right movement. Three if you count the rise of Prison Industries since then.

History and Reality are now called the insane views of nut cases, by out of country professional opinion makers.

Hear me America! We must do something about Frog Town, and soon!

I'm hardly talking about every voting station in the country - just in those states where certain groups were targeted with voter suppression.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

By the way, years ago in some states, the voting procedure as I understand it was to go to the county seat and get in line. When it was your turn to vote, the county sheriff would ask about each election in turn and give you the choices. You would tell him your choice and he would write it down.

I don't know if that was for everyone or just for those who could not read. There was an article on this in a Smithsonian Magazine back in the early to mid 1970s so I don't remember all the details by any means.