Jenessa Seymour
jenessaseymour.bsky.social
Jenessa Seymour
@jenessaseymour.bsky.social
Follow for voting rights and disability law updates, with a focus on NY election law.
Disability voting access advocate, NY Attorney, PhD in neuroscience, former college professor. Posting in my personal capacity, not on behalf of any organization.
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[Louisiana v. Callais] and [Robinson v. Callais] Oral Argument
The Supreme Court heard oral argument in [Louisiana v. Callais] and [Robinson v. Callais], which examined if Louisiana's creation of a second majority-Black congressional district violated the 14th or...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This. I think people are underestimating just how many lawyers & investigators in the Utah government (not FBI) were obligated to authenticate this kind of evidence before putting it in a legal document, and all the consequences if it was false, even by accident. It is wildly unlikely at every step
September 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I feel like a lot of people define “hate” as a deep overwhelming angry emotion of loathing that’s actually just hurting your soul. Some base, sad thing that enlightened people avoid. But to me, “a hater” is like, Kendrick writing “Not Like Us”. Unflinching social commentary. “Someone had to say it”
September 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
That article literally doesn’t connect the shooter to groypers though? It just says people on social media are saying that and: “The markings on the bullet casings suggest the subject was steeped in meme culture and made references to online taunts and anti-fascist messages.”
September 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I’ll never understand how the Dems are somehow the most incompetent disorganized dumbasses but also capable of conspiring to subvert the process so subtly to not get caught but so blatantly that it’s obvious (if you’re paying attention). Or… maybe sometimes people vote for candidates I don’t like
August 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Thanks! I was wondering where the level of precision came from, b/c I was assuming it had to be some kind of estimation. Read up on this method and it makes a lot of sense. Sure it’s one night, but what are the odds they picked a particularly bad or good night? Should reflect the general status
August 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
To be more precise, voting in the D primary can be people who just decided that’s the primary they wanted to vote in today, which could include reasons like “the R primary is uncontested”. This is a much looser affiliation than in states like NY, where your affiliation locks in months in advance
August 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
To be more precise, voting in the D primary can be people who just decided that’s the primary they wanted to vote in today, which could include reasons like “the R primary is uncontested”. This is a much looser affiliation than in states like NY, where your affiliation locks in months in advance
August 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is a bit inaccurate. Texas has open primaries and voters do not register with a party. This party breakdown is established by primary voters. An additional 2.8 million registered voters are “unaffiliated” meaning they didn’t vote in primaries. Those D primary voters could vote R in the general
Are There More Democrats In Texas Than Republicans?
Texas is an open partisan primary state, which means it does not have to register voters by party affiliation. When voters go to the polls in the primary, they can freely choose between a Republican a...
ivn.us
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This is a bit inaccurate. Texas has open primaries and voters do not register with a party. This party breakdown is established by primary voters. An additional 2.8 million registered voters are “unaffiliated” meaning they didn’t vote in primaries. Those D primary voters could vote R in the general
Are There More Democrats In Texas Than Republicans?
Texas is an open partisan primary state, which means it does not have to register voters by party affiliation. When voters go to the polls in the primary, they can freely choose between a Republican a...
ivn.us
August 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I live in NY and actively follow politics. Never heard of him. I can’t remember his name right now. Republicans have no realistic shot at the NY federal senate seats, so this is unsurprising. Gillibrand knows she only needs to convince a few people in these neighborhoods to win the whole community
July 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This is critical. Nationwide data will include some County in Alabama that, surprise, was even less blue than usual. There is no reason to commit felony election fraud in Alabama. Election data is compiled by County & State, so shifts in solid States actually prove a true nationwide shift occurred.
July 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
1) Source?
2) The Country shifted red, Counties also necessarily did. Every County that went red is 1 less County that could have gone blue
3) How do you explain this matching the polling?
4) There is no mechanism to beat the different security protocols in every State and County at once undetected.
Which counties had the biggest swings in 2024 compared to previous elections
A red shift across the country has propelled Donald Trump back into the White House. While some shifts in Trump’s direction were expected, others came in unexpected places.
www.cnn.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In Rockland COUNTY: Harris 44% Gillibrand 53%. In Ramapo 35, a Hasidic town that votes as a bloc: Trump 552 votes, Harris 0. Gillibrand (who campaigns there) 331. The game of telephone made 1 precinct w/ 500 voters into “Harris got 0 votes in a whole County”… Fact check before sharing/repeating bs!!
What to know about lawsuit over 2024 general election results in Rockland County, NY
One online user claimed the county was at "the center of a massive election integrity case."
www.snopes.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Glad they mentioned the 2016 comparison. If they truly cared who leaked the info, they’d have ignored info from an obvious Russian agent trying to affect our elections. Normally I blame terrible media on clickbait, but this would have been clickbait gold… really bad sign for the state of reporting
July 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
“On the ticket” makes no sense. Even if some major anti-Mamdani vote turns out, that’s in 2025. Does he think a year later anti-Mamdani people turn out in droves to vote against other Dems while Mamdani’s not running? …maybe people are that illogical 🤦🏼‍♀️ but come on, enough to flip an NYC house seat?
July 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Thomas wants you to hear “intentional discrimination” & only think of evil scheming to exclude people w/ disabilities, a view that would make the ADA basically unenforceable. Sotomayor explains intentionally not including ramps is itself discrimination, regardless of the architect’s personal animus.
July 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We recorded before AJT was decided. The basics: If you’re suing for disability discrimination, on the basis that the ADA or Section 504 was violated, it shouldn’t matter whether it happened in a K-12 school, or college, or work place. Previously, some circuits made it harder for K-12 students to win
July 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Taking pictures of protestors is absolutely a scare tactic, especially considering how they’ve been targeting people for deportation based on politics. There’s no legitimate government function served by photographing a protestor
July 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM