Election Reform
In reply to the discussion: Why Do Democrats Ignore Massive Voter Suppression? [View all]PATRICK
(12,267 posts)Many retail workers in NY had their voting rights suppressed. Two days before the election, taking advantage of the archaic 12 noon sort polling day upstate they suddenly rescheduled employees for nine hour shifts- starting at noon. This effected with marked concentration Sanders voters. Trump supporters had no such difficulty.
How is this possible? In case you are unfamiliar with that sort of workplace, FOX TV is present in the break rooms- and so is management. People get pretty vociferous about their beliefs. How is this a fact? Thanks to social media when someone gets screwed like this they can compare notes over a wide swath very quickly. As for fighting this do you have to be reminded of the uneasy status of such workers? It can be proven easily should someone want to sue the retail giants like Walmart on their behalf by work records and affiliations. Future intimidation of course is strengthened like the good old days of the nineteenth century Gilded Age. Their shared estimate is that it effects many thousands of young workers. Up here it is pretty much universally anti-Hillary.
In a lawsuit you might think this would be easy, but hey this is America. We pay good tax dollars to Walmart so they don't have to overpay their minions and we expect them to control their people for us. The money involved would make even the largest slap on the wrist or settlement award would pale according to the the influence these businesses receive everyday from their preening tools in Congress.
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