Republicans will use their voter fraud lies to push voter suppression.
If you don't think that voter suppression is the GOP's top priority for 2021-22, then you aren't paying attention. https://t.co/oCULnZJXxz
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) January 24, 2021
State Republicans in deep-red states and battlegrounds alike are citing former President Donald Trump’s meritless claims of voter fraud in 2020 as an excuse to tighten access to the pollshttps://t.co/wAc50qA2Wn
— POLITICO (@politico) January 24, 2021
We’re already seeing efforts to reassert Georgia’s place as ground zero for voter suppression because politicians are afraid change is coming. https://t.co/UtYokhiwQM
— Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) January 24, 2021
Democracy for me, but not for thee.
— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) January 24, 2021
2 dead moms voting for Trump in my state and the PAGOP is raging that THEIR OWN Vote by Mail law <<checks notes>> uh- worked?
So pissed, in fact, they’re now attempting to gerrymander the PA Supreme Court. 👍https://t.co/M6ENGb9hE8
Here's a link to the full, edited voter suppression piece.
— Milo Beckman (@milobela) January 11, 2021
Editor @MicahCohen said to me on the phone (I swear this is verbatim) "are we sure this is about race?"https://t.co/yvHSyGOz7x
Republican lawmakers in states Trump contested are pushing new voting restrictions for future elections. That includes proposals to roll back laws in Georgia and Pennsylvania that allowed all registered voters to vote by mail.https://t.co/GbpQCeuZit
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) December 30, 2020
“Casting a vote typically took longer in poorer, less white neighborhoods than it did in whiter and more affluent ones.”
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) January 4, 2021
@nytimes
This is a #VotingRights issue our nation must do something about. https://t.co/l9sJqRQ7mm
Race is one of the strongest predictors of how long a person waits in line to vote, research shows. https://t.co/DalFAimMdS
— NBCBLK (@NBCBLK) October 13, 2020
Keep track: Republicans want to roll back mail-in voting in states that Trump lost (and contested), like Georgia and Pennsylvania.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 1, 2021
"Lawmakers … are now looking at an outcome of an election and deciding that [these voting laws] didn't benefited them."https://t.co/qZrWtzj4zd
"Republican state lawmakers have begun to use President Donald Trump’s baseless charges of voter fraud to push for new restrictions on voting.” https://t.co/afJxzc3KiN
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) December 23, 2020
The fruit of Trump's baseless fraud charges: "Raffensperger on Wednesday asked Georgia state representatives to end no-excuse absentee voting, a proposal that would limit the voting method over 1.3 million people used in the presidential election." https://t.co/bdeL4PlFqo
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) December 23, 2020
Georgia Republicans outline a plan to restrict mail voting and roll back the election laws that contributed to the state's record-high turnout in the presidential election — unwinding rules the party itself put in place. https://t.co/4qA10UfAz7
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 12, 2020
Be prepared for what follows the current attack on the election: 1- State efforts to restrict voting, particularly mail-in voting which Republicans see as disadvantaging them. 2- Future attempts to intimidate election officials, courts & legislatures to overturn election losses.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) December 11, 2020
Number of polling places closed since the 5 Republican appointed Justices on the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013:
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) November 1, 2020
Texas: 750
Arizona: 320
Georgia: 214
Louisiana: 126
Mississippi: 96
Alabama: 72
North Carolina: 29
13 States Total: 1,688https://t.co/nWWszNTNA8
This is “their” plan. Get it? https://t.co/owUf8silqc
— Midwin Charles, Esq. (@MidwinCharles) October 18, 2020
Of course this woman deserves to be commended, but we have to call this what it is: This is the result of Republicans nonstop efforts to suppress black voters. If Biden wins Georgia, it will be because of a superhuman effort by people like her. Voting shouldn’t be partisan. https://t.co/177NGCXL0N
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) October 12, 2020
A legal fight over how to fix ballot errors in North Carolina has left thousands of voters in limbo — nearly half people of color https://t.co/gv51NQVvf9
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 12, 2020