The Republican Attack on the Right to Vote

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Republicans and their cohorts / co-CONSPIRATORS are getting increasingly BOLDER in their open assault upon THE RIGHT TO VOTE:

Ex-Trump official intends to steal Congress with Republican-rigged elections

Lin Wood Says Brian Kemp to be Arrested, Doubles Down on Georgia Vote Fraud Conspiracy
'Lethal-looking,bearded man' lied he was RNC 'security' during Virginia ballot counting - Raw Story
Arizona 'auditors' demand access to routers and passwords. County sheriff tells them to get bent
New redistricting group aims to use Florida to flip House - Axios
Distortions in census numbers give a boost to Team Trump | TheHill

AND:

Republicans will never certify a Democratic win ever again | Boing Boing
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MEANWHILE:

To Protect Voters and Democracy, We’re Going to Need to Fight

The anti-voter bills proliferating around the United States raise to new heights the existential crisis facing American democracy.

Georgia's voting law that bans food and water ISN'T same as in Biden's home state of Delaware - Poynter

John Oliver trashes Arizona’s 'pathetically desperate' election audit: 'We’ll be lucky if nobody gets hurt'

 

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Senator Ted Cruz Says Making It Easier To Vote Is Actually 'Jim Crow 2.0' | HuffPost
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Ted Cruz—DumbAss 2.0

 

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Senator Ted Cruz Says Making It Easier To Vote Is Actually 'Jim Crow 2.0' | HuffPost
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Ted Cruz—DumbAss 2.0

Typical of their backward ass MENTALITY. As I keep saying, in their alternate reality BIZARRO WORLD, everything is the opposite of normal. Hence why (in THEIR universe) making it easier to vote is "Jim Crow 2.0," our nation's most respected health care advisor "paid for the creation of Covid 19," "normal wage levels" are below a liveable wage, and "stop the steal" is actually an all out right winged EFFORT TO STEAL elections. Then they get mad because WE don't fall for that bullshit.

Arizona governor signs bill that would stop some voters from automatically receiving mail-in ballots

Democratic lawmakers make efforts to expand voting access:

Georgia Democratic senators introduced measure allowing voters to have access to water while waiting

BUT Republicans fight against them tooth and nail:

Republicans block proposal to let voters standing in line receive water at the polls


RESISTANCE:

How to stop Republicans from stealing elections | Salon.com

New data analysis of Biden's 2020 win emphasizes Democrats' room to grow while GOP fortunes dwindle


And even SOME Republicans are waking up to smell the coffee:

'Rationals' vs. 'radicals': Anti-Trump Republicans threaten third party | Reuters
Almost HALF of Trump Voters Won't Engage with New Trump Platform
Arkansas' GOP governor: "Trump is dividing our party"

 

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Republicans in multiple states continue their assault upon the RIGHT TO VOTE via various underhanded "laws" and regulations designed to disenfranchise minority voters, and allow them to ignore or overturn election results THEY don't like:

Arizona Gov. Ducey signs new law that will purge infrequent mail voters from ballot list

Abrams issues sharp rebuke to Arizona GOP governor for signing 'devastating anti-voter bill' | TheHill

While, with the help of two conservative Democrats in the Senate, Republicans continue to stall critical voting legislation:

Senate committee Republicans deadlock critical voting rights legislation — forcing a heavy lift

Arizona 'Democrat' Kyrsten Sinema burns her voters back home, while D.C. Republicans cheer
Manchin effectively joins the insurrectionists, rejecting voting rights, election reforms
Manchin plants himself firmly in McConnell's back pocket, rejects saving democracy

MEANWHILE, back at the Arizona fiasco:

Trump insurrectionist banned from counting ballots at Arizona audit: ‘Not the best optic
Abrams Slams AZ GOP’s Shady Election Audit As ‘A Continuation’ Of Capitol Siege
Maricopa Co. Supervisors tell AZ Senate GOP to get bent, won't attend their OAN 'political theater'
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In another thread ("Of Swine, Sycophants... Enemies of the State") I wrote of how the Heritage Foundation and their many spinoffs, associate entities et al were the REAL DEEP STATE, all their blather to the contrary being nothing more than their typical smoke and mirror act to get people looking the OTHER WAY.

It was they, and their cohorts who drew up "blueprints" for a Republican ANTI-DEMOCRACY state, they who manipulated law and legislation toward those ends, they who recommended far right conservative judicial appointments, they who were literally the ARCHITECTS of right winged ideology and dog whistle, racist terminology and propaganda.

And it has now been revealed, it is ALSO they who've been the masterminds behind right winged VOTER SUPPRESSION "laws" and other FASCIST forms of legislation that disenfranchises minority voters, impedes access to voting, and even goes so far as to enable Republicans to contravene, throw out, and overrule not only elections, but voter approved propositions and mandates as well.

It IS, as one columnist described it, nothing less than THE CONTINUATION OF THE JAN 6 INSURRECTION VIA LEGISLATION.

Or to put it bluntly: A FKNG COUP.

Heritage Foundation Associated Group Faces Ethics Probe After Boasting of Drafting Voter Suppression Laws – Mother Jones

Five Ways a Dark Money Group Is Trying to Rig Our Elections – Mother Jones

Intercept bureau chief: Manchin-backed bill doesn't address voter suppression | TheHill


meanwhile:

Republicans Are Trying to Steal Your Vote, and Dems Are Snoozing Through It
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I sometimes track the progress of threads here in the Politics forum, and I must admit I'm rather taken aback by the fact that, what in my opinion, is probably the most QUINTESSENTIAL FACTOR that will determine the survival of America as a democracy, the Republican attack upon the RIGHT TO VOTE, doesn't seem to get much play.

I don't quite know if that's because of a certain degree of confidence that Republican efforts to undermine the vote won't matter, or what. But as suggested in the last linked article above (and in some of the others below) there is MUCH to be concerned about:

The numbers are grim. Republicans are winning at normalizing voter suppression | David Sirota | The Guardian

Column: Trump couldn't steal the election in 2020. His allies are laying the groundwork to try again

Illinois' Supreme Court elections could lead to a decade of GOP minority rule unless Democrats act

MEANWHILE in Arizona:

Arizona election auditors found the voting data that Trump claimed had been destroyed as part of a plot to deprive him of victory

Arizona may have to replace compromised voting machines examined by Pro-Trump "auditors"-- and on taxpayers' dime!

Meet the familiar faces who went from boosting 2020 election conspiracies to hyping the Arizona audit
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Besides accessing ballots, they’re also assessing information on how to hack the machines before trying the same in other swing states.

GOP election integrity. Free and fair elections.

Arizona Official Says Voting Machines Are Now Unusable Because Of Recount Firm's Control | HuffPost​

 

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Exactly. Their claim of fraud is only a smokescreen for the FRAUD they've been perpetrating. If they weren't so fkng DETESTABLE they wouldn't have to cheat to WIN.

‘This is outrageous!’ Morning Joe thumps Arizona for letting conspiracy theorists tamper with voting machines before 2022 elections - Raw Story

The state's top election official urged Maricopa County to replace hundreds of voting machines that had been examined by the Cyber Ninjas firm as part of the GOP-backed review of Donald Trump's election loss, which the "Morning Joe" host said never should have happened in the first place.

"This is outrageous," Scarborough said. "It used a company that had a CEO that actually endorsed all of these false claims that the election was stolen, and now that these machines have been placed into a conspiracy theorist's hand and a guy who is a grifter and has been a grifter, it would be irresponsible and reckless for Maricopa County to do anything else but get completely new machines.

This grift is going to cost them millions and millions of dollars, and for elections to come, because they haven't had custody of these machines."​

What's more, the b----------ds are expanding their SCAM to other states, and like in Arizona, they're raking in MONEY under fraudulent claims of needing funding for what's already funded by TAXPAYERS.

Georgia Judge Allows Fulton County Ballots to Be Examined for Fraud

A Georgia judge will allow absentee ballots from the 2020 election to be unsealed to have them examined for possible fraud.

In granting the motion on Friday, Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero agreed to open 145,000 absentee ballots from Fulton County as part of a review into the 2020 election, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

One of the plaintiffs requesting to do an audit of Fulton County's results is Garland Favorito, the co-founder of a group called Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia. Favorito is currently soliciting donations to fund the effort on social media, and on Thursday tweeted, "Dear #VoterGa supporters, Please send money. Thanks! Garland."

Georgia election officials have extensively refuted claims that any malicious activity occurred at the arena, which was monitored via surveillance cameras.
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The assault upon the right to vote AS WELL AS legitimate votes and election outcomes THEY don't like, CONTINUES:​

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Republicans find new weapon to lock in power for generations - Raw Story

GOP lawmakers in Florida, Idaho, South Dakota and other states have passed laws limiting the use of ballot initiatives, which have allowed voters to bypass state legislatures to enact laws that have allowed Democrats in conservative states to advance their agendas, reported the New York Times.

"They have implemented web after web of technicalities and hurdles that make it really hard for community-based groups to qualify for the ballot and counter why ballot initiatives were created in the first place," said Chris Melody Fields Figueredo, executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. "This is directly connected to every attack we've seen on our democracy."

Republicans have so far this year introduced 144 bills to restrict the ballot initiative processes in 32 states, and 19 of those have been signed into law by GOP governors.
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As does their CONTINUOUS ATTEMPTS TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION:​

Former Trump campaign staffers file lawsuit in Ohio on the strength of the Big Lie

FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY:​

Texans protest new voting legislation which has been compared to 'Jim Crow' laws

Maricopa County Board demands Arizona Senate leaders and audit vendors hold all documents related to GOP's Cyber Ninjas audit

N.Y. Democrats push to change messy voting laws after GOP wins controversial upstate race | Salon.com

 

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They CAN'T WIN THE VOTE OUTRIGHT. They've said this themselves, via their own admission. So they're working to STEAL THE VOTE, to take America, right out from under our feet.

A malevolent minded renegade cop with a record MURDERED George Floyd. They're trying to murder DEMOCRACY:

Trump's GOP using threats of violence to 'influence future elections' and 'that should frighten us': DC insider - Raw Story

Texas GOP Propose Cutting Polling Places for Urban Voters of Color - Rolling Stone

AZ Republicans strip Dem Secretary of State of her ability to defend election lawsuits: report - Raw Story

meanwhile:

Report from the Front Line on the Arizona Election "Audit": "It was far worse than you think".
Arizona recount tech company backs out of election audit: 'They were done'
Arizona Native American voters won the election–now Republicans are punishing us.

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Part of a voter suppression law Texas is in the middle of passing:

 

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Part of a voter suppression law Texas is in the middle of passing:
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Just WHAT will "they" consider "illegally cast" and HOW will that be "determined" and just as important WHO will make that determination ??

 

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OK I will play

Just WHAT will "they" consider "illegally cast" and HOW will that be "determined" and just as important WHO will make that determination ??

As reported in this evenings national news, this draconian, restrictive, Jim Crow kind of bullshit voter suppression legislation is the most restrictive in the country. According to reports, the law, among other measures designed to deprive mostly minority people of our right to vote, ALSO reportedly allows a Texas judge to just outright OVERTURN an election, even if there's no evidence to justify it. Question being, how far is America prepared to let these fascist go?

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Texas Senate approves Senate Bill 7, sweeping voting limits legislation | The Texas Tribune

Opinion: I grew up in Jim Crow Texas, and we must stay vigilant on voter suppression
Experts slam 'horrible' final voting bill in Texas for 'new, egregious suppression measures' - Raw Story

 

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And Texas isn't the ONLY state where Republicans are destroying democracy by attacking the right to vote:

Republicans who embraced Trump’s big lie run to become election officials | US news | The Guardian

Rigging the electoral system’ isn’t the only GOP path — but they’d rather cheat with Trump: analysis
The GOP is destroying democracy': Alabama GOP faces well-earned criticism after curbside voting ban
Leaked Mother Jones Video Reveals Heritage Foundation Behind Voter Suppression Laws
Republicans launch election investigations in multiple states as Arizona audit forges ahead
Maricopa County AZ Recorder, Republican Stephen Richer, Calls Audit "Insane" & Gives Details

MEANWHILE:

Jeffries: Republicans 'want to make it harder to vote and easier to steal an election' | TheHill

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said Republicans in Texas and nationwide “want to make it harder to vote and easier to steal an election” after the Texas Senate passed a sweeping voting restrictions bill.

“The Texas law is shameful, and Republicans clearly in Texas and throughout the country want to make it harder to vote and easier to steal an election. That's the only way that I can interpret the voter suppression epidemic that we see working its way from one state, Georgia to Arizona to Texas, and all across the country, in so many different ways,” Jeffries told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“Fundamental to our democracy is the right to vote, self-government, that the American people get to decide and work for a democracy that reflects the voices of all Americans, not just a certain segment, not just conservatives, not just Republicans, not just people in certain parts of the country, all Americans,” he added.

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Conservative columnist: Republicans have gone from 'stop the steal' to 'start the steal'

On Tuesday, writing for The Washington Post, conservative columnist Max Boot outlined how Republicans are rapidly moving from conspiracy theories about how the election was stolen from Donald Trump, to making active plans to steal the next one.

"Republicans have spent nearly seven months making bogus charges of fraud in the 2020 election under the banner of 'stop the steal.' Now they have segued into a 'start the steal' offensive to ensure that they will win the 2022 and 2024 elections — even if most voters once again support the Democratic Party," wrote Boot.​

Conservative Columnist Warns Of GOP Plot To Steal 2024 Election | HuffPost​

ALSO:

Jeffries: Republicans 'want to make it harder to vote and easier to steal an election' | TheHill
O'Rourke shows Republican election laws in Texas are designed to suppress Black and Latino votes
Trump met with Pennsylvania state senator who's trying to start 2020 election audit like Arizona's
GOP strategist shreds Texas GOP for ramming through bill that'd have helped Trump stay in power
Texas Republicans Want to Make Trump’s Coup Nice and Legal

AND IN ARIZONA::

Experts Call It A 'Clown Show' But Arizona 'Audit' Is A Disinformation Blueprint

A free market emerges in election fraudits yet again in Arizona: Insurrection part Deux
Even deplorable media is getting fed up with the Fraudit
Arizona Audit Observers Allege Malfunctions, Security Violations
Arizona GOP Audit Of 2020 Election Draws More Republican Politicians | HuffPost

 

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MEANWHILE, SOME POCKETS OF RESISTANCE

Voting rights legislation sits in Congress while states move ahead with reforms - ABC News

Floridians are defying Ron DeSantis's Jim Crow voter suppression law and it's very inspiring.

Florida Democrat wants to pass 3 constitutional amendments making it easier to vote


BUT DAMN SURE NOT ENOUGH:

Texas Democrats Are Begging for Help From Congress - They killed S.B. 7 by walking out, but they can’t hold off Republican voting restrictions forever.

Texas Lawmaker Tells Joe Manchin ‘It’s Time to Cowboy Up’ on the Filibuster: Republicans ‘Are Going to Destroy the Country’ With Voter Suppression
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Analysis: How the Supreme Court has tilted election law to favor the Republican Party

This year's wave of new voting restrictions across the South may seem a response to the 2020 election, but its origins stem in no small part from the Supreme Court, which over the last decade has reshaped election law to elevate the power of state lawmakers over the rights of their voters.

Under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the Supreme Court threw out the part of the Voting Rights Act requiring states with histories of discriminating against Black voters to clear election rule changes with the U.S. Justice Department. Writing for a 5-4 majority in 2013, Roberts called the section outdated and said it did not fit with "current conditions."​

Texas' voting bill to support Trump's 'Big Lie' will eventually pass. Blame the Supreme Court.​

Analysis: Dangerous GOP voting laws change who counts the votes - CNNPolitics

Republicans are out to create the rigged voting system they claim to be victims of | Lawrence Douglas | The Guardian

and

Texas attorney general admits Trump would have lost the state in 2020 if he hadn't blocked mail-in voting - Raw Stor

The power of GOP gerrymandering: Georgia's median Senate seat was 15 points redder than the state


MEANWHILE, IN THE ARIZONA FRAUDIT:

Trump and Giuliani personally pushed for conspiracy-driven Arizona vote ‘audit’, emails show
Wait, now the votes of Arizona voters is in a secluded Montana cabin?
Republican behind Arizona election audit touted Trump phone call in emails
New emails reveal how OAN reporter has advised Arizona GOP on their ballot 'audit' - Raw Story
OAN Correspondent Has Aided AZ Audit Since at Least December: Docs
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Black voters have worse voting rights than in 1965. That's exactly what the GOP wants

MSNBC conservative: 'Trump gave ‘resentful and paranoid’ voters ‘exactly what they wanted’ — and that’s why he remains a threat

Texas GOP blames 'typo' as Democrats force their retreat on controversial voter suppression bill: report - Alternet.org

FEC Closes Case on International 'Coordinated Attempt' to Defraud Black Americans' Voters to Help Trump

MEANWHILE, IN ARIZONA:

Cheney rips Arizona election audit: 'It is an effort to subvert democracy' | TheHill

Republicans from across the US descend on Arizona 'audit' with plans for more reviews of Trump's loss - Raw Story

Actual election experts challenge incompetent Arizona 'audit' team: 'Put up or shut up'

WOUDA COULDA SHOULD

Texas AG Ken Paxton's Supreme Court lawsuit to overturn Biden's win could get him disbarred

Trump could face legal jeopardy for supporters' threats against election officials - Raw Story

FIGHTING BACK:

Abrams' Voting Rights Group Unveils Effort To Mobilize Millions Of Young Voters Of Color | HuffPost

Merrick Garland has a new plan to combat threats to voting rights - Raw Story
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