Just call it “White.” Or for “Whites Only.” Why pretend otherwise, just come out and say it? Why is it beginning to feel like 1923 Munich?
holy fucking shit. they aren't even pretending anymore.
Were they ever? Coded racist language is still racist language.
No, but it was easier to defend for the apologists to defend.
I kind of like the openness, not gonna lie.
Let's hear the conservative apologists spin this horseshit.
Yes we should know which of the gop politicians and voters are loud and proud white supremacists. The rest we can assume are in the closet based on their tacit approval of this group.
As America embraces early voting, GOP hurries to restrict it
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
Today
Nearly seven of every 10 voters cast their ballots before Election Day in 2020. Republicans are moving to make it harder for that to happen again, potentially affecting the voting preferences of millions of Americans.
The GOP's campaign to place new restrictions on mail-in and early voting in certain states will force voters to contend with new rules on what have quickly become popular and proven methods of casting ballots.
Though it is difficult to forecast how exactly the changes will affect voter turnout in the years ahead, critics argue that the proposals target a voting method that has had growing appeal for both Democrats and Republicans, and will add additional and needless bureaucratic hurdles to casting ballots before Election Day.
In just Georgia and Iowa, states where sweeping new voting restrictions already have been signed into law, more than 5 million voters used absentee or early in-person voting last fall. Restrictive early voting bills also are advancing in other politically important states where Republicans are in control, including Arizona, Florida and Texas. Altogether, nearly 27 million voters in those five states cast ballots in advance of the 2020 presidential election.
“They’re trying to make it a hassle to vote,” said Dixie Davis, a 33-year-old seamstress in Fort Worth, Texas, who voted early in the last election. “I feel like voting should be convenient — it’s like the most basic service a government should provide in a democratic society.”
The explosion of both early and mail voting in the 2020 election came after state officials across the country relaxed rules around who could cast ballots before Election Day in a one-time effort to avoid coronavirus spread at crowded polling places. Officials and experts have said the result was one of the smoothest elections in recent memory, without any of the widespread fraud alleged by former President Donald Trump and his allies.
In response, Republican lawmakers in a number of states have opted against making those changes permanent or expanding advance voting options. They instead have introduced a wave of new restrictions, arguing that they are trying to prevent fraudulent voting and restore public confidence in elections.
The Brennan Center for Justice, a policy group that advocates for increased voting access, has tallied more than 350 pieces of restrictive legislation this year, many aimed at shortening early voting periods and imposing new requirements for mail-in voting. In addition to the new laws in Georgia and Iowa, at least 28 bills to restrict mail and absentee voting are moving in 18 states, according to the Brennan Center.
“The efforts to restrict voting access are not based on the policies that voters actually want,” said Eliza Sweren-Becker, voting rights and elections counsel at the Brennan Center. “Voters like mail voting, voters like convenience, voters like early voting, so lawmakers are not delivering on requests for these restrictions.”
The massive early voting surge in 2020, when 111.5 million voters cast ballots in advance, can't be compared to previous elections because of the changes to procedures in many states prompted by the pandemic. Those states expanded early voting but did not make the changes permanent.
But even before last year, absentee and early in-person voting had been growing for both Democrats and Republicans. In fact, it's been increasing every year since 2008, in both midterm and general elections, according to Associated Press election research. During the 2016 presidential contest, nearly 59 million people voted before Election Day. (Last year’s turnout data includes unofficial results from New York, Montana and Michigan).
In Georgia, the new law reduces the amount of time voters can request absentee ballots from 180 days before an election to 78 days, requires an ID to vote absentee, prohibits local election officials from sending voters absentee ballot applications unless requested and limits the number of ballot drop boxes a county can have.
It does mandate two Saturdays of early voting ahead of general elections, when only one had been mandatory, and leaves two Sundays as optional. Republicans at one time had proposed limiting early voting on Sundays, which critics argued was an attack on a get-out-the-vote initiative organized by Black churches called “Souls to the Polls.”
In 2020, about 1.3 million Georgia voters cast mail ballots and around 2.7 million voted early in-person. President Joe Biden narrowly won the state by 12,000 votes, with the heavily populated and Democratic-leaning counties in the Atlanta area casting many votes before Election Day. In 2016, when Trump took the state, roughly 2.4 million voters cast ballots ahead of Election Day.
“I know that it is going to obstruct the voting patterns of many people, especially seniors, because people were relying on voting absentee and now they're making it more difficult,” said Georgia state Sen. Donzella James, a Democrat who represents parts of Atlanta. “It’s not going to hurt just Democrats; it’s going to hurt the whole voting process and make it harder to vote.”
A similar dynamic is underway in Iowa, where a new law shortens the early voting period from 29 days to 20 days, requires most mail ballots to be received by Election Day and forbids county election officials from sending absentee ballot request forms unless requested.
“When you're cramming everything into such a small window, of course it's going to be harder on us,” said Travis Weipert, the auditor of Iowa's Johnson County. “If the system is working, what are you trying to fix?”
More than 1 million Iowans cast absentee ballots before Election Day in 2020, after the state mailed absentee applications to all registered voters. Some counties opened more early voting sites and allowed early drive-thru voting to reduce lines and promote social distancing. In 2016, the figure was around 650,000, about 40% of the total vote. Trump won the state handily in both 2016 and last year.
Restrictions also are being considered in other politically important states.
In Arizona, Republicans are behind measures to bar election officials from sending unsolicited absentee ballots and to establish new requirements to vote absentee, after about 3 million people cast ballots before the past election. In Florida, where around 9 million people voted before Election Day last year, Republicans have proposed requiring 24-hour surveillance of ballot drop boxes and making voters provide identification to submit a ballot at a drop box.
Nearly 10 million voters last year cast advance ballots in Texas, where Republicans came out ahead in the presidential race and all statewide offices, and also held control of the state Legislature. Nevertheless, the GOP is pushing legislation that would make it a crime for local election officials to send mail ballot applications to voters who didn’t ask for them.
Studies have shown that increased mail-in voting does not grant a partisan advantage. It is difficult to determine what level of restriction would turn a person off from voting, though critics of the proposals argue that lawmakers should be trying to encourage voting rather than tightening rules around popular methods.
“We shouldn’t be looking at this through the partisan lens. We should just be looking at it through the lens of increasing participation,” said Dale Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project. “If you don’t have a good reason to make voting hard, you ought not to. You ought to be making voting easier.”
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Izaguirre reported from Lindenhurst, New York.
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Associated Press coverage of voting rights receives support in part from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The AP is solely responsible for this content.
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As America embraces early voting, GOP hurries to restrict it
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
Today
Nearly seven of every 10 voters cast their ballots before Election Day in 2020. Republicans are moving to make it harder for that to happen again, potentially affecting the voting preferences of millions of Americans.
The GOP's campaign to place new restrictions on mail-in and early voting in certain states will force voters to contend with new rules on what have quickly become popular and proven methods of casting ballots.
Though it is difficult to forecast how exactly the changes will affect voter turnout in the years ahead, critics argue that the proposals target a voting method that has had growing appeal for both Democrats and Republicans, and will add additional and needless bureaucratic hurdles to casting ballots before Election Day.
In just Georgia and Iowa, states where sweeping new voting restrictions already have been signed into law, more than 5 million voters used absentee or early in-person voting last fall. Restrictive early voting bills also are advancing in other politically important states where Republicans are in control, including Arizona, Florida and Texas. Altogether, nearly 27 million voters in those five states cast ballots in advance of the 2020 presidential election.
“They’re trying to make it a hassle to vote,” said Dixie Davis, a 33-year-old seamstress in Fort Worth, Texas, who voted early in the last election. “I feel like voting should be convenient — it’s like the most basic service a government should provide in a democratic society.”
The explosion of both early and mail voting in the 2020 election came after state officials across the country relaxed rules around who could cast ballots before Election Day in a one-time effort to avoid coronavirus spread at crowded polling places. Officials and experts have said the result was one of the smoothest elections in recent memory, without any of the widespread fraud alleged by former President Donald Trump and his allies.
In response, Republican lawmakers in a number of states have opted against making those changes permanent or expanding advance voting options. They instead have introduced a wave of new restrictions, arguing that they are trying to prevent fraudulent voting and restore public confidence in elections.
The Brennan Center for Justice, a policy group that advocates for increased voting access, has tallied more than 350 pieces of restrictive legislation this year, many aimed at shortening early voting periods and imposing new requirements for mail-in voting. In addition to the new laws in Georgia and Iowa, at least 28 bills to restrict mail and absentee voting are moving in 18 states, according to the Brennan Center.
“The efforts to restrict voting access are not based on the policies that voters actually want,” said Eliza Sweren-Becker, voting rights and elections counsel at the Brennan Center. “Voters like mail voting, voters like convenience, voters like early voting, so lawmakers are not delivering on requests for these restrictions.”
The massive early voting surge in 2020, when 111.5 million voters cast ballots in advance, can't be compared to previous elections because of the changes to procedures in many states prompted by the pandemic. Those states expanded early voting but did not make the changes permanent.
But even before last year, absentee and early in-person voting had been growing for both Democrats and Republicans. In fact, it's been increasing every year since 2008, in both midterm and general elections, according to Associated Press election research. During the 2016 presidential contest, nearly 59 million people voted before Election Day. (Last year’s turnout data includes unofficial results from New York, Montana and Michigan).
In Georgia, the new law reduces the amount of time voters can request absentee ballots from 180 days before an election to 78 days, requires an ID to vote absentee, prohibits local election officials from sending voters absentee ballot applications unless requested and limits the number of ballot drop boxes a county can have.
It does mandate two Saturdays of early voting ahead of general elections, when only one had been mandatory, and leaves two Sundays as optional. Republicans at one time had proposed limiting early voting on Sundays, which critics argued was an attack on a get-out-the-vote initiative organized by Black churches called “Souls to the Polls.”
In 2020, about 1.3 million Georgia voters cast mail ballots and around 2.7 million voted early in-person. President Joe Biden narrowly won the state by 12,000 votes, with the heavily populated and Democratic-leaning counties in the Atlanta area casting many votes before Election Day. In 2016, when Trump took the state, roughly 2.4 million voters cast ballots ahead of Election Day.
“I know that it is going to obstruct the voting patterns of many people, especially seniors, because people were relying on voting absentee and now they're making it more difficult,” said Georgia state Sen. Donzella James, a Democrat who represents parts of Atlanta. “It’s not going to hurt just Democrats; it’s going to hurt the whole voting process and make it harder to vote.”
A similar dynamic is underway in Iowa, where a new law shortens the early voting period from 29 days to 20 days, requires most mail ballots to be received by Election Day and forbids county election officials from sending absentee ballot request forms unless requested.
“When you're cramming everything into such a small window, of course it's going to be harder on us,” said Travis Weipert, the auditor of Iowa's Johnson County. “If the system is working, what are you trying to fix?”
More than 1 million Iowans cast absentee ballots before Election Day in 2020, after the state mailed absentee applications to all registered voters. Some counties opened more early voting sites and allowed early drive-thru voting to reduce lines and promote social distancing. In 2016, the figure was around 650,000, about 40% of the total vote. Trump won the state handily in both 2016 and last year.
Restrictions also are being considered in other politically important states.
In Arizona, Republicans are behind measures to bar election officials from sending unsolicited absentee ballots and to establish new requirements to vote absentee, after about 3 million people cast ballots before the past election. In Florida, where around 9 million people voted before Election Day last year, Republicans have proposed requiring 24-hour surveillance of ballot drop boxes and making voters provide identification to submit a ballot at a drop box.
Nearly 10 million voters last year cast advance ballots in Texas, where Republicans came out ahead in the presidential race and all statewide offices, and also held control of the state Legislature. Nevertheless, the GOP is pushing legislation that would make it a crime for local election officials to send mail ballot applications to voters who didn’t ask for them.
Studies have shown that increased mail-in voting does not grant a partisan advantage. It is difficult to determine what level of restriction would turn a person off from voting, though critics of the proposals argue that lawmakers should be trying to encourage voting rather than tightening rules around popular methods.
“We shouldn’t be looking at this through the partisan lens. We should just be looking at it through the lens of increasing participation,” said Dale Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project. “If you don’t have a good reason to make voting hard, you ought not to. You ought to be making voting easier.”
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Izaguirre reported from Lindenhurst, New York.
___
Associated Press coverage of voting rights receives support in part from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The AP is solely responsible for this content.
Just call it “White.” Or for “Whites Only.” Why pretend otherwise, just come out and say it? Why is it beginning to feel like 1923 Munich?
holy fucking shit. they aren't even pretending anymore.
Were they ever? Coded racist language is still racist language.
No, but it was easier to defend for the apologists to defend.
I kind of like the openness, not gonna lie.
Let's hear the conservative apologists spin this horseshit.
Yes we should know which of the gop politicians and voters are loud and proud white supremacists. The rest we can assume are in the closet based on their tacit approval of this group.
Good, let them do it. Let them wave it proud. They have lost the suburbs, cities and now the business community. It's a dead end strategy.
Nope.. they're the minority, not us. It's our country, not theirs. They are lashing back because they are losing and they know it.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you but that orange slob of a POOTWH, along with his enablers, has done long lasting damage to our republic, perhaps for a decade or a generation or two, at least. I’m afraid that the past four years, and particularly January 6, 2021, is just the beginning. Next time, the long guns and Molotov napalm like cocktails won’t remain outside the District or in parked cars and vans. The insidious damage has been done via the rigged census, gerrymandering, restrictive voting laws and Q followers running and being elected to local office, not to mention the Supreme Court stacking and federal judiciary appointments.
Faux News might as well be Geobbles’ and the likes of the Murdochs, Kochs, DeVos’, Mercers and their ilk, the second coming of the Third Reich. It very much feels like 1920’s Germany, except instead of just the Jews, it’s everybody who’s not pure white. I’m afraid the worst is yet to come. Folks better pay attention because four years ago we were told it’s not happening. And here we are. 75 million ‘Muricans voted for POOTWH after the previous 4 years. Good fucking luck.
Nope.. they're the minority, not us. It's our country, not theirs. They are lashing back because they are losing and they know it.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you but that orange slob of a POOTWH, along with his enablers, has done long lasting damage to our republic, perhaps for a decade or a generation or two, at least. I’m afraid that the past four years, and particularly January 6, 2021, is just the beginning. Next time, the long guns and Molotov napalm like cocktails won’t remain outside the District or in parked cars and vans. The insidious damage has been done via the rigged census, gerrymandering, restrictive voting laws and Q followers running and being elected to local office, not to mention the Supreme Court stacking and federal judiciary appointments.
Faux News might as well be Geobbles’ and the likes of the Murdochs, Kochs, DeVos’, Mercers and their ilk, the second coming of the Third Reich. It very much feels like 1920’s Germany, except instead of just the Jews, it’s everybody who’s not pure white. I’m afraid the worst is yet to come. Folks better pay attention because four years ago we were told it’s not happening. And here we are. 75 million ‘Muricans voted for POOTWH after the previous 4 years. Good fucking luck.
Nope.. they're the minority, not us. It's our country, not theirs. They are lashing back because they are losing and they know it.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you but that orange slob of a POOTWH, along with his enablers, has done long lasting damage to our republic, perhaps for a decade or a generation or two, at least. I’m afraid that the past four years, and particularly January 6, 2021, is just the beginning. Next time, the long guns and Molotov napalm like cocktails won’t remain outside the District or in parked cars and vans. The insidious damage has been done via the rigged census, gerrymandering, restrictive voting laws and Q followers running and being elected to local office, not to mention the Supreme Court stacking and federal judiciary appointments.
Faux News might as well be Geobbles’ and the likes of the Murdochs, Kochs, DeVos’, Mercers and their ilk, the second coming of the Third Reich. It very much feels like 1920’s Germany, except instead of just the Jews, it’s everybody who’s not pure white. I’m afraid the worst is yet to come. Folks better pay attention because four years ago we were told it’s not happening. And here we are. 75 million ‘Muricans voted for POOTWH after the previous 4 years. Good fucking luck.
Nope.. they're the minority, not us. It's our country, not theirs. They are lashing back because they are losing and they know it.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you but that orange slob of a POOTWH, along with his enablers, has done long lasting damage to our republic, perhaps for a decade or a generation or two, at least. I’m afraid that the past four years, and particularly January 6, 2021, is just the beginning. Next time, the long guns and Molotov napalm like cocktails won’t remain outside the District or in parked cars and vans. The insidious damage has been done via the rigged census, gerrymandering, restrictive voting laws and Q followers running and being elected to local office, not to mention the Supreme Court stacking and federal judiciary appointments.
Faux News might as well be Geobbles’ and the likes of the Murdochs, Kochs, DeVos’, Mercers and their ilk, the second coming of the Third Reich. It very much feels like 1920’s Germany, except instead of just the Jews, it’s everybody who’s not pure white. I’m afraid the worst is yet to come. Folks better pay attention because four years ago we were told it’s not happening. And here we are. 75 million ‘Muricans voted for POOTWH after the previous 4 years. Good fucking luck.
You truly think their view is building traction and growing their numbers? No way. They are an aging group. They're not the future, they are he past.
That may be true in the distant future but with voter suppression, gerrymandering and the fucked Supreme Court it looks like minority rule will be the norm in the US for the foreseeable future.
One of your major parties doesn't believe in democracy and that should be considered a crisis.
Nope.. they're the minority, not us. It's our country, not theirs. They are lashing back because they are losing and they know it.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you but that orange slob of a POOTWH, along with his enablers, has done long lasting damage to our republic, perhaps for a decade or a generation or two, at least. I’m afraid that the past four years, and particularly January 6, 2021, is just the beginning. Next time, the long guns and Molotov napalm like cocktails won’t remain outside the District or in parked cars and vans. The insidious damage has been done via the rigged census, gerrymandering, restrictive voting laws and Q followers running and being elected to local office, not to mention the Supreme Court stacking and federal judiciary appointments.
Faux News might as well be Geobbles’ and the likes of the Murdochs, Kochs, DeVos’, Mercers and their ilk, the second coming of the Third Reich. It very much feels like 1920’s Germany, except instead of just the Jews, it’s everybody who’s not pure white. I’m afraid the worst is yet to come. Folks better pay attention because four years ago we were told it’s not happening. And here we are. 75 million ‘Muricans voted for POOTWH after the previous 4 years. Good fucking luck.
Nope.. they're the minority, not us. It's our country, not theirs. They are lashing back because they are losing and they know it.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you but that orange slob of a POOTWH, along with his enablers, has done long lasting damage to our republic, perhaps for a decade or a generation or two, at least. I’m afraid that the past four years, and particularly January 6, 2021, is just the beginning. Next time, the long guns and Molotov napalm like cocktails won’t remain outside the District or in parked cars and vans. The insidious damage has been done via the rigged census, gerrymandering, restrictive voting laws and Q followers running and being elected to local office, not to mention the Supreme Court stacking and federal judiciary appointments.
Faux News might as well be Geobbles’ and the likes of the Murdochs, Kochs, DeVos’, Mercers and their ilk, the second coming of the Third Reich. It very much feels like 1920’s Germany, except instead of just the Jews, it’s everybody who’s not pure white. I’m afraid the worst is yet to come. Folks better pay attention because four years ago we were told it’s not happening. And here we are. 75 million ‘Muricans voted for POOTWH after the previous 4 years. Good fucking luck.
"America First Cocks" shithole states with shithead representation.
Turning us into a shithole country.
Nope.. they're the minority, not us. It's our country, not theirs. They are lashing back because they are losing and they know it.
They are the minority. But between the Senate and Electoral College enable them to fall backwards into disproportionate power. They know they’re the minority and that we’re getting less white. That’s why we’re seeing this combination of desperation and brazenness. Each step is accepted by the base, ignored by most, laughed off by many, and upsetting to a few. South Africa was 13% white during 1980s apartheid.
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Nope.. they're the minority, not us. It's our country, not theirs. They are lashing back because they are losing and they know it.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you but that orange slob of a POOTWH, along with his enablers, has done long lasting damage to our republic, perhaps for a decade or a generation or two, at least. I’m afraid that the past four years, and particularly January 6, 2021, is just the beginning. Next time, the long guns and Molotov napalm like cocktails won’t remain outside the District or in parked cars and vans. The insidious damage has been done via the rigged census, gerrymandering, restrictive voting laws and Q followers running and being elected to local office, not to mention the Supreme Court stacking and federal judiciary appointments.
Faux News might as well be Geobbles’ and the likes of the Murdochs, Kochs, DeVos’, Mercers and their ilk, the second coming of the Third Reich. It very much feels like 1920’s Germany, except instead of just the Jews, it’s everybody who’s not pure white. I’m afraid the worst is yet to come. Folks better pay attention because four years ago we were told it’s not happening. And here we are. 75 million ‘Muricans voted for POOTWH after the previous 4 years. Good fucking luck.
Nope.. they're the minority, not us. It's our country, not theirs. They are lashing back because they are losing and they know it.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you but that orange slob of a POOTWH, along with his enablers, has done long lasting damage to our republic, perhaps for a decade or a generation or two, at least. I’m afraid that the past four years, and particularly January 6, 2021, is just the beginning. Next time, the long guns and Molotov napalm like cocktails won’t remain outside the District or in parked cars and vans. The insidious damage has been done via the rigged census, gerrymandering, restrictive voting laws and Q followers running and being elected to local office, not to mention the Supreme Court stacking and federal judiciary appointments.
Faux News might as well be Geobbles’ and the likes of the Murdochs, Kochs, DeVos’, Mercers and their ilk, the second coming of the Third Reich. It very much feels like 1920’s Germany, except instead of just the Jews, it’s everybody who’s not pure white. I’m afraid the worst is yet to come. Folks better pay attention because four years ago we were told it’s not happening. And here we are. 75 million ‘Muricans voted for POOTWH after the previous 4 years. Good fucking luck.
Nope.. they're the minority, not us. It's our country, not theirs. They are lashing back because they are losing and they know it.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you but that orange slob of a POOTWH, along with his enablers, has done long lasting damage to our republic, perhaps for a decade or a generation or two, at least. I’m afraid that the past four years, and particularly January 6, 2021, is just the beginning. Next time, the long guns and Molotov napalm like cocktails won’t remain outside the District or in parked cars and vans. The insidious damage has been done via the rigged census, gerrymandering, restrictive voting laws and Q followers running and being elected to local office, not to mention the Supreme Court stacking and federal judiciary appointments.
Faux News might as well be Geobbles’ and the likes of the Murdochs, Kochs, DeVos’, Mercers and their ilk, the second coming of the Third Reich. It very much feels like 1920’s Germany, except instead of just the Jews, it’s everybody who’s not pure white. I’m afraid the worst is yet to come. Folks better pay attention because four years ago we were told it’s not happening. And here we are. 75 million ‘Muricans voted for POOTWH after the previous 4 years. Good fucking luck.
What does this stop, honestly? These are all games, charades. The tide has turned. They are trying to put a finger in the dyke. Does FL trying to stop protests halt the national outrage on how minorities are policed? Not at all. These are all fruitless reactions, that's how I see them. Corporate America, sports figures, the majority, we all see what has happened. The Florida senate doesn't change a damn thing on the path.
Nope.. they're the minority, not us. It's our country, not theirs. They are lashing back because they are losing and they know it.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you but that orange slob of a POOTWH, along with his enablers, has done long lasting damage to our republic, perhaps for a decade or a generation or two, at least. I’m afraid that the past four years, and particularly January 6, 2021, is just the beginning. Next time, the long guns and Molotov napalm like cocktails won’t remain outside the District or in parked cars and vans. The insidious damage has been done via the rigged census, gerrymandering, restrictive voting laws and Q followers running and being elected to local office, not to mention the Supreme Court stacking and federal judiciary appointments.
Faux News might as well be Geobbles’ and the likes of the Murdochs, Kochs, DeVos’, Mercers and their ilk, the second coming of the Third Reich. It very much feels like 1920’s Germany, except instead of just the Jews, it’s everybody who’s not pure white. I’m afraid the worst is yet to come. Folks better pay attention because four years ago we were told it’s not happening. And here we are. 75 million ‘Muricans voted for POOTWH after the previous 4 years. Good fucking luck.
What does this stop, honestly? These are all games, charades. The tide has turned. They are trying to put a finger in the dyke. Does FL trying to stop protests halt the national outrage on how minorities are policed? Not at all. These are all fruitless reactions, that's how I see them. Corporate America, sports figures, the majority, we all see what has happened. The Florida senate doesn't change a damn thing on the path.
Except you’re still believing that it’s a level playing field. DeSantis and his ilk are playing the long game. We’re not at the end, we’re at the beginning. That national outrage? It’ll be marginalized and dismissed by a minority in this country because they can. POOTWH taught them well. Run out the clock, freeze everything and when it’s your turn, stack the deck more in your favor. Watch. Are consumers really going to stop flying delta or not drink Coke? ‘Muricans have the attention spans of gnats and as soon as some other perceived threat, issue, krapdashian outrage hits, they’ll move on. Good luck. Apparently, Bill Maher is still important and should be “heard.”
Nope.. they're the minority, not us. It's our country, not theirs. They are lashing back because they are losing and they know it.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you but that orange slob of a POOTWH, along with his enablers, has done long lasting damage to our republic, perhaps for a decade or a generation or two, at least. I’m afraid that the past four years, and particularly January 6, 2021, is just the beginning. Next time, the long guns and Molotov napalm like cocktails won’t remain outside the District or in parked cars and vans. The insidious damage has been done via the rigged census, gerrymandering, restrictive voting laws and Q followers running and being elected to local office, not to mention the Supreme Court stacking and federal judiciary appointments.
Faux News might as well be Geobbles’ and the likes of the Murdochs, Kochs, DeVos’, Mercers and their ilk, the second coming of the Third Reich. It very much feels like 1920’s Germany, except instead of just the Jews, it’s everybody who’s not pure white. I’m afraid the worst is yet to come. Folks better pay attention because four years ago we were told it’s not happening. And here we are. 75 million ‘Muricans voted for POOTWH after the previous 4 years. Good fucking luck.
What does this stop, honestly? These are all games, charades. The tide has turned. They are trying to put a finger in the dyke. Does FL trying to stop protests halt the national outrage on how minorities are policed? Not at all. These are all fruitless reactions, that's how I see them. Corporate America, sports figures, the majority, we all see what has happened. The Florida senate doesn't change a damn thing on the path.
Except you’re still believing that it’s a level playing field. DeSantis and his ilk are playing the long game. We’re not at the end, we’re at the beginning. That national outrage? It’ll be marginalized and dismissed by a minority in this country because they can. POOTWH taught them well. Run out the clock, freeze everything and when it’s your turn, stack the deck more in your favor. Watch. Are consumers really going to stop flying delta or not drink Coke? ‘Muricans have the attention spans of gnats and as soon as some other perceived threat, issue, krapdashian outrage hits, they’ll move on. Good luck. Apparently, Bill Maher is still important and should be “heard.”
Of course they're not going to stop driving coke and flying delta. That's exactly my point. Yes, they're stepping up their "war", but it's yet another lost cause.
It’s foolish to dismiss Trump as an aberration when the GQP has turned on the never(only when he’s winning)Trumpers and embraced what he enabled. The cult of personality is all they have left. It’s all they’ve had in my entire lifetime. These are people still think Reagan was a good president and passed that delusion to their kids.
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I kind of like the openness, not gonna lie.
Let's hear the conservative apologists spin this horseshit.
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Nearly seven of every 10 voters cast their ballots before Election Day in 2020. Republicans are moving to make it harder for that to happen again, potentially affecting the voting preferences of millions of Americans.
The GOP's campaign to place new restrictions on mail-in and early voting in certain states will force voters to contend with new rules on what have quickly become popular and proven methods of casting ballots.
Though it is difficult to forecast how exactly the changes will affect voter turnout in the years ahead, critics argue that the proposals target a voting method that has had growing appeal for both Democrats and Republicans, and will add additional and needless bureaucratic hurdles to casting ballots before Election Day.
In just Georgia and Iowa, states where sweeping new voting restrictions already have been signed into law, more than 5 million voters used absentee or early in-person voting last fall. Restrictive early voting bills also are advancing in other politically important states where Republicans are in control, including Arizona, Florida and Texas. Altogether, nearly 27 million voters in those five states cast ballots in advance of the 2020 presidential election.
“They’re trying to make it a hassle to vote,” said Dixie Davis, a 33-year-old seamstress in Fort Worth, Texas, who voted early in the last election. “I feel like voting should be convenient — it’s like the most basic service a government should provide in a democratic society.”
The explosion of both early and mail voting in the 2020 election came after state officials across the country relaxed rules around who could cast ballots before Election Day in a one-time effort to avoid coronavirus spread at crowded polling places. Officials and experts have said the result was one of the smoothest elections in recent memory, without any of the widespread fraud alleged by former President Donald Trump and his allies.
In response, Republican lawmakers in a number of states have opted against making those changes permanent or expanding advance voting options. They instead have introduced a wave of new restrictions, arguing that they are trying to prevent fraudulent voting and restore public confidence in elections.
The Brennan Center for Justice, a policy group that advocates for increased voting access, has tallied more than 350 pieces of restrictive legislation this year, many aimed at shortening early voting periods and imposing new requirements for mail-in voting. In addition to the new laws in Georgia and Iowa, at least 28 bills to restrict mail and absentee voting are moving in 18 states, according to the Brennan Center.
“The efforts to restrict voting access are not based on the policies that voters actually want,” said Eliza Sweren-Becker, voting rights and elections counsel at the Brennan Center. “Voters like mail voting, voters like convenience, voters like early voting, so lawmakers are not delivering on requests for these restrictions.”
The massive early voting surge in 2020, when 111.5 million voters cast ballots in advance, can't be compared to previous elections because of the changes to procedures in many states prompted by the pandemic. Those states expanded early voting but did not make the changes permanent.
But even before last year, absentee and early in-person voting had been growing for both Democrats and Republicans. In fact, it's been increasing every year since 2008, in both midterm and general elections, according to Associated Press election research. During the 2016 presidential contest, nearly 59 million people voted before Election Day. (Last year’s turnout data includes unofficial results from New York, Montana and Michigan).
In Georgia, the new law reduces the amount of time voters can request absentee ballots from 180 days before an election to 78 days, requires an ID to vote absentee, prohibits local election officials from sending voters absentee ballot applications unless requested and limits the number of ballot drop boxes a county can have.
It does mandate two Saturdays of early voting ahead of general elections, when only one had been mandatory, and leaves two Sundays as optional. Republicans at one time had proposed limiting early voting on Sundays, which critics argued was an attack on a get-out-the-vote initiative organized by Black churches called “Souls to the Polls.”
In 2020, about 1.3 million Georgia voters cast mail ballots and around 2.7 million voted early in-person. President Joe Biden narrowly won the state by 12,000 votes, with the heavily populated and Democratic-leaning counties in the Atlanta area casting many votes before Election Day. In 2016, when Trump took the state, roughly 2.4 million voters cast ballots ahead of Election Day.
“I know that it is going to obstruct the voting patterns of many people, especially seniors, because people were relying on voting absentee and now they're making it more difficult,” said Georgia state Sen. Donzella James, a Democrat who represents parts of Atlanta. “It’s not going to hurt just Democrats; it’s going to hurt the whole voting process and make it harder to vote.”
A similar dynamic is underway in Iowa, where a new law shortens the early voting period from 29 days to 20 days, requires most mail ballots to be received by Election Day and forbids county election officials from sending absentee ballot request forms unless requested.
“When you're cramming everything into such a small window, of course it's going to be harder on us,” said Travis Weipert, the auditor of Iowa's Johnson County. “If the system is working, what are you trying to fix?”
More than 1 million Iowans cast absentee ballots before Election Day in 2020, after the state mailed absentee applications to all registered voters. Some counties opened more early voting sites and allowed early drive-thru voting to reduce lines and promote social distancing. In 2016, the figure was around 650,000, about 40% of the total vote. Trump won the state handily in both 2016 and last year.
Restrictions also are being considered in other politically important states.
In Arizona, Republicans are behind measures to bar election officials from sending unsolicited absentee ballots and to establish new requirements to vote absentee, after about 3 million people cast ballots before the past election. In Florida, where around 9 million people voted before Election Day last year, Republicans have proposed requiring 24-hour surveillance of ballot drop boxes and making voters provide identification to submit a ballot at a drop box.
Nearly 10 million voters last year cast advance ballots in Texas, where Republicans came out ahead in the presidential race and all statewide offices, and also held control of the state Legislature. Nevertheless, the GOP is pushing legislation that would make it a crime for local election officials to send mail ballot applications to voters who didn’t ask for them.
Studies have shown that increased mail-in voting does not grant a partisan advantage. It is difficult to determine what level of restriction would turn a person off from voting, though critics of the proposals argue that lawmakers should be trying to encourage voting rather than tightening rules around popular methods.
“We shouldn’t be looking at this through the partisan lens. We should just be looking at it through the lens of increasing participation,” said Dale Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project. “If you don’t have a good reason to make voting hard, you ought not to. You ought to be making voting easier.”
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Izaguirre reported from Lindenhurst, New York.
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Associated Press coverage of voting rights receives support in part from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The AP is solely responsible for this content.
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