Republican legislators in several states are responding to the pandemic-prompted surge in vote-by-mail during the primaries by trying to make the process more difficult going forward.
They used to do this behind closed doors. Now they openly disenfranchise voters. Disgusting humans who care nothing for democracy - just power.
The GOPers are seeing the handwriting on the wall, on the internet, on the streets, in the polls.
Everywhere.
They also don’t want to reveal their sources for restricting voting legislation.
Remember how OH wanted to dump voters off of voting rolls because they hadn’t voted in 2 elections, nor return/responded to a post card they the SoS sent out? Well wouldn’t they have the info they so desperately wanted with return to sender absentee applications for ballots?
Downstream GOP candidates who reach for Trump’s coattails will find their hands covered with shit
GOP = Swamp Scum!
“lack of clarity around who was behind the Georgia measure.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you ALEC, still hard at work trying to undermine democracy to create permanent minority-rules white Christian hegemony…
So you think you can stop the blue wave from kicking your assteroids out of office? GLWTS.
I still get a chuckle out of the people in Michigan, my state,that held a rally to BURN their absentee ballot applications because Gretchen had them mailed to out to all the registered voters in the state. That protest didn’t catch fire.
This all has to be as public as the sky.
The GOP doesn’t want honest elections.
No, they do not. There is proof through their actions and through their words. They know that on a level playing field they would be swept out of office. They can only retain the minority party power they do by manipulation and outright cheating.
Republicans: always the assholes.
I want to shrink the Republican party to where it can be strangled in a bathtub. They seem to have the same goal.
The Republican party only maintains power via minority rule. That’s why they have such a visceral fear of voters.
In 7 of the last 8 presidential election voters have shown they prefer Democrats to Republicans but that did not necessarily stop Republicans from taking office in all 7 where Republicans lost.
Or to put another way, if Republicans cared about voters, they would not be Republicans.
GOPers are attempting to show us what Trump/Barr are doing to our legal system is what they will do if Trump is reelected.
We will vote how we are told and when.
This is why regaining the Senate is so important. If the Democrats win the House, Senate, and presidency, then we will get a new voting rights act that shuts down this kind of nonsense, and puts in place real regulations that ensure all citizens can vote without interference. McConnell is already blocking bills on this that the House has passed, and that won’t change if the Republicans hold the Senate.
Really, this election requires everyone to vote out Republicans en masse, without quibbling about the Democrats not being “perfect”…they are far better than the Republicans and will progress the nation.
Where is the surprise here? Several prominent GOPers have publicly stated that with mail in voting the GOP will have trouble winning elections.
The bad news is for the Post Office… the best way for the GOP to kill voting by mail is to kill the PO and they will give it their best shot.
Now why would you think that???
Since 2010, the number of whites who aren’t Hispanic had dropped by more than 16,600 people. But the decline has been escalating in the past three years, with the number of non-Hispanic whites dropping by more than a half million people from 2016 to 2019, according to the Census Bureau population estimates.
The name “Stacey Abrams” is going to be heard an awful lot more times in the coming months. She is quite an impressive woman.
We need her and all she brings to the table on Voting By Mail.