Republicans in the Florida Legislature passed an election overhaul bill on Thursday that is set to restrict voting in one of the nation’s most critical battleground states.
Ok, Corporate America, you know what to do.
Hopefully…
Agreed… but IMO not bloody likely
I don’t think this will work as they think. In this case many of the provisions are going to burden Bubba just as much as Tyrone but Tyrone’s been playing the game much longer.
The new measures [are expected] to disproportionately affect [Democratic] voters.
In the long term Republicans must be run out of town on a rail.
In the short term voters need help.
Cheating is supposed to be something you do furtively: not something you telegraph and publicly announce using loudspeakers. It is both bizarre and truly disturbing. The GOP is becoming more desperate and dangerous than I ever imagined.
They are desperate.
They are dangerous.
Becoming was yesterday. Today it is the a complete state of being. They have little left to actually stop people from voting except making people voting illegal. I would love to hear what they think their actual endgame will be, if they recovered what they see as a lock on power. Pretty sure they don’t have one. Like a dog finally catching the car, now what?
The specific tightening of ballot access and absentee balloting is bad, but somewhat of a red herring for the most egregious parts of these anti-voting bills in Florida, Georgia, and the other states still working on their suppression
It’s the other provisions which inject more corruption and partisanship into the election administration process. Whether it’s Georgia dismantling the independent State Elections Board and handing control over to the Republican-controlled legislature, and allowing partisan activists to challenge the status of an unlimited number of registered voters; or Florida’s opening of their elections to more partisan "observers; the end result is to offer more channels for the next Trump to challenge and overturn legitimate election results which don’t produce the “right” results.
I hate to make reductionist arguments, but the only answers I can come up with are maintenance of (and support for) an increasingly economically unequal social order and White supremacy.
I get the feeling these voter suppression laws are going to adversely affect the R turnout more than these fools think.
bingo
@justruss yeah…their endgame includes lots of sociopathy and psychopathy (like the followers they are appeasing=this is no longer a political issue, this is a mental health issue…you can’t derp like FOX 24/7/365 without there to be an effect)
That requires they are actually capable of planning and governing said society. That is why I keep asking the sort of question I do. They could ship everyone not Republican out of this country and they will fail because they have no idea how to actually manage their perfect society once they get there.
Yep
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“ Hannam, 22, was also found guilty of two counts of fraud and two counts of holding a document likely to be used by a terrorist, in a trial in April. He separately pleaded guilty to possessing an indecent image of a child.”
Can someone explain the truly bizarre combo of neo-naziism and crimes against children? It’s a pattern and an obsession among Qnuts.
The legislation would also expand a current rule that prohibits outside groups from providing items “with the intent to influence” voters within a 150-foot radius of a polling location.
Well GA already passed this one idea, but I wonder if the FL legislature, or any other state contemplating changing their rules/laws about electioneering in front of a polling place knows how they may effect actual polling places?
I vote in my community center up the road. In MO I believe that you can’t electioneer within 20’ of a polling place. Now if MO decides to go down this road and widens the no electioneering perimeter to 150’ that would move the boundary into the parking lot. So would a car having candidate’s bumper sticker, or even campaign signage be considered electioneering?
I know that this a piddly thing, but I wouldn’t put it past a Republican controlled state to up end where polling sites are located, especially in urban areas.
And they’ve been busy on other fronts as well.
Yeah I don’t think that Republicans grasp the notion of “a more perfect union”.
And then there’s what happens when the dog catches the car they’ve been chasing?
And because Republicans are so righteous once they remove the POC, Dems of any hue, then they’ll still be working on whittling away at who can vote.
They can only feel powerful if they can control/exploit those weaker than them.
Inwardly pointing, circular firing squads.
At some point when are they, the fiscally conservative, wake up to the fact that they are wasting my money. These cases will be challenged, they will not only cost in monies spent, but in time wasted.
These folks seem to understand that they’ve lost on trying to convince people of their position, so they’ve focused on making a woman’s body a legal battleground to be fought over. Sort of the “we can’t win over people’s hearts and minds with their message”, so they will codify into law that women can’t have agency over their own body.
Wasn’t it AL that tried to pass a law that even if a women went out of state to obtain a abortion she could be arrested once she was back in AL?
I think that’s the whole point. They want to get a case before the SC
