And yet in every single election we read about soft voter suppression techniques like minority areas having fewer/broken machines, long lines, run out of ballots, etc. How many times have you read that story in your local paper or seen it on your locals news? Every single damn time something like that happened, an investigator for the FEDERAL voting rights divisions should have made visits to the sate Secretary of State and whatever local officials are involved in deploying those machines for an interview about exactly why the screw-up and that they are put on notice that if it happens again, they will open an official investigation and expect a prosecution for repetitive failures in this regard.

What about Crosscheck? That system has been in the news for at least two years as a method where Red States have found a way to purge their voter rolls of mostly minority and ethnic populations as a way to suppress/deny their vote. If you read the articles, although the check was supposed to be names, SS#s, birth dates, street address, etc., in many case the only check was name, throwing up lots and lots of duplicates. Now there's careless, there's negligent, there's stupid, and then there is very conscious evil acts to toss people off rolls. At the very least, instances where the state only looks for name duplicates, at minimum they are careless, grossly negligent, and stupid in thinking that is any kind of adequate check to entitle them to take away a citizen's right to vote; but it is so careless, negligent and stupid that it begs belief to think that highly placed elected officials could do this accidentally. So where was the Obama DOJ on this? What actions did they undertake to prevent the wholesale purge of voters?

What effort has the Obama administration made to ensure that every voter in all Federal elections has access to a secure, non-tamper proof voting process? What has the Democratic Party done about correcting the situation or at the very least making it a campaign issue? Weren't there large numbers of voters who found themselves surprisingly ineligible to vote in Democratic primaries? Where was the concern on the part of the Party, and even more important, where was the action to find out what was going on?

someone posted a link to their site and I admit to initial skepticism before even opening it up as we've all seen these supposedly progressive organizations before that usually dwindle away to nothing or are just a front to get contributions that go to people like nothing you had in mind when donating.

I have to say, I liked their platform as published on their site, I can get behind just about all of it, although I did think "negotiating drugs in Medicare" was conspicuous by it's absence even though they advocate a Medicare for all option.

Their game plan is to run brand new candidates, regardless of their party affiliation if they agree with the platform, in primaries and if their candidate loses they will have an alternate plan b Independent poised to run in their stead. I guess that would be because of sore loser laws. I think it's hardly needs to be said that one could presume that they would find a lot more Democrats than Republican agreeing with their platform, but one never knows - Bernie proved there was some crossover with Libertarians.

I actually like Brand New Congress more than what I have seen of Our Revolution which seems to me to be a more likely contender to be swallowed up in Democratic politics as usual although I will continue to watch to see if it becomes viable and not just another veal pen for Progressives.