The Republican Party filed a record number of lawsuits aimed at curtailing voting in 2022, with many aimed at restricting voting ahead of the midterms, according to a new report.
Can someone remind me which political party pushed for early voting, no excuse absentee voting, and vote by mail?
I ask this because formerly strong red states like AZ seem to have been the champion of voting, but not necessarily on election day.
And they were quite successful in many States. Unless we get the benches for State Supreme courts, it’ll stay that way.
It’s an old story; they can’t win fairly, so they cheat and suppress. It’s not a political party, it’s a criminal conspiracy.
The BothSides Boys do a good job at not saying this.
@epicurus
(all kinds of ways to not say)
“Evidently, the GOP establishment is becoming more litigious than ever and is turning to courts to achieve its anti-voting and anti-democracy ends,”
Because they were emboldened by some quizzical Supreme Court decisions and it takes a Kari Lake level of frivolous lawsuit to get sanctioned.
Pennsylvania Republicans were celebrating passing a law that greatly expanded vote-by-mail a mere year before the 2020 election:
The state House of Representatives on Tuesday advanced the bill in a 138-61 vote. Later that day, the state Senate approved it in a 35-14 vote.
“This bill makes voting more convenient and more secure for millions of Pennsylvanians and continues my commitment to modernizing our elections,” said Governor Wolf. “This is the biggest change to our elections in generations and will strengthen our democracy by removing barriers to the voting booth and encouraging more people to vote. I applaud all of the legislators and stakeholders for their work with my administration and their spirit of compromise.”
Little did they know that only a few months later they would have to eat crow by opposing the bill they passed to keep Trump happy.
Democracy Docket also found that the lawsuits were paraded mostly out of Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin,
They still lost bigly in 2 of those states and failed to get a super majority in the Wisconsin House.
So now what? The GQP uses every low down dirty trick and failed to take both chambers of Congress? Do they ask the 6 Operatives on the Supreme Court to write a decision that non-white male Citizens can be denied the right to vote. What legal bullsh*t will the Con Judges pull out of their assteroids to justify further suppression?
It is going to be a wild ride heading into 2024.
Without even reading, I know the Republican war against voting, especially against those people (like the ones in Madison and Milwaukee) voting, will continue. That’s about their whole platform at the moment.
In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in particular, the laws and procedures they have or are trying to overturn were created by Republicans. Many were in effect during 2016, some by 2018. There wasn’t an issue with them when they won, of course.
Interestingly enough, one of the potential laws for Wisconsin is to allow the counting of absentee ballots to begin before election day. It has been proposed every legislative session for many, many years. Even after the outcry over the 2016 “ballot dumps” they could never get it out of committee. Suddenly, this year Vos et al think it might be a good idea.
Which, right there, should raise some eyebrows…
Water is wet.
“I’ve done my own research, and you are wrong.”
/s