Republicans are using Trump’s big lie about voter fraud to try to pass bills that would increase voter suppression. They want to make it harder to vote because they know, and some have even said it out loud, that they lose if everyone votes. Democrats in Congress need to get rid of the Senate filibuster and pass the voter rights bill.
The "big lie" on voter fraud is still with us | Analysis by CNN's Zachary B. Wolf https://t.co/h71fUKIden pic.twitter.com/J7DNFgsBeR
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 20, 2021
Here are the states with the worst voter suppression bills pending:
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) February 20, 2021
🗳️Arizona
🗳️Florida
🗳️Georgia
🗳️Iowa
There are other bad ones, but so far these are the worst. I will have more to say next week.
Amid fears of a backlash, state GOP lawmakers propose flurry of voting restrictions to placate Trump supporters https://t.co/FwroclcTDK
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) February 20, 2021
THREAD: What does voter suppression look like? Here's what Georgia Republicans stuffed inside ONE of the nearly 50 anti-voting bills filed post runoff. #HB531 will:
— Esosa Osa (@Esosa_Osa) February 19, 2021
Eliminate Sunday Voting, Slash 108 Total Available Hrs of Early Vote, Remove 1 of 2 Sat Vote Options, #gapol 1/8
Red state Republicans continue to show congressional Democrats the wave of voter suppression they will face in 22 and 24 if they don’t establish national standards for the right to vote through #HR1 & a new voting rights act. Passage or not could define the decade’s politics https://t.co/qmzZeMahON
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 19, 2021
Florida Gov. DeSantis' plan to "Strengthen Election Integrity and Transparency" is basically to just stop people from voting pic.twitter.com/avRbBf1sOM
— Colin Wolf (@WolfColin) February 19, 2021
The Republican plan for 2021 is to change voting laws to make it harder for black people to vote. It is that simple. @JoyAnnReid @thereidout @DemocracyDocket pic.twitter.com/ajkS10S8AT
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) February 18, 2021
Republicans in 33 states have introduced 165 bills restricting voting access after the 2020 election. #TheReidOut pic.twitter.com/TjsZdI7Eqj
— The ReidOut (@thereidout) February 18, 2021
Republican state legislators and secretaries of state have announced the creation of a commission that will look at election laws amid a push to curb expanded access to voting https://t.co/RJz5UZWLxf
— CNN (@CNN) February 17, 2021
Vann said something important on @JoyAnnReid about this ongoing voter suppression strategy of the @GOP. Eventually it will work. And it doesn't even have to work that much to flip an election. https://t.co/yVSxF2z7Fx
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) February 18, 2021
Georgia Republicans wrote state’s voting laws. They were totally fine with mail voting until Dems & Black voters started using it. Now they want to take away something 1.3 million voters used in 2020 https://t.co/dhaV1dYUiX
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) February 17, 2021
Georgia Republicans wrote state’s voting laws. They were totally fine with mail voting until Dems & Black voters started using it. Now they want to take away something 1.3 million voters used in 2020 https://t.co/dhaV1dYUiX
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) February 17, 2021
With Impeachment drawing to a close, please do not forget the fight for voting rights in the states. Republicans are planning a massive attack on voting using Trump's big lie.
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) February 13, 2021
We must be prepared to oppose in legislatures and fight in court.https://t.co/0ZTCueFEGT
BREAKING: Republican senators in Georgia introduced bills Monday to end no-excuse absentee voting, automatic voter registration and ballot drop boxes. https://t.co/NZu5h5943N
— AJC (@ajc) February 2, 2021
After Record Turnout, Republicans Are Trying to Make It Harder to Vote – The New York Times https://t.co/cuwJ72yEMp
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 30, 2021
GOP state lawmakers have moved to impose new restrictions on mail-in voting for future elections in Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania — battleground states that were fiercely contested in the 2020 election with record numbers of early and mail-in voters https://t.co/usS32imeI6
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 29, 2021
My new one for @CNN on the continued fight against voter suppression: https://t.co/9EjnXF7on2 https://t.co/al3DHngyq7
— Josh Douglas (@JoshuaADouglas) January 28, 2021
Ohio's voter purge list included thousands of eligible people who voted in the election — calling its accuracy into question. Via @srl https://t.co/WvotjhC1V2
— Ankita Rao (@anrao) January 27, 2021
New GOP-sponsored bill would make voting much harder in Georgia. Top GA Republicans support it.
— Charles Bethea (@charlesbethea) January 27, 2021
"Voters would be required to make copies of their photo ID and mail them to election officials twice before being allowed to cast an absentee ballot." https://t.co/SoFRExqa4l pic.twitter.com/1yFrxkQb6g
Keep watching this space. @GeorgeWill and other conservatives have joined Democrats in describing many of these efforts as deliberate voter suppression. https://t.co/VkfTA4j0ID
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) February 20, 2021
Republicans used to defend voter suppression laws by saying the laws prevented fraud. The new justification is that the laws will restore confidence that there wasn't fraud. The problem is that any lack of confidence was solely the result of lies told by Trump and the GOP.
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) February 20, 2021
The GOP’s voting rights week:
— Taniel (@Taniel) February 20, 2021
Montana House passed a bill to gerrymander Supreme Court; Iowa moved moving on a bill to slash early voting & restrict mail voting; yet another Georgia bill emerged that’d slash mail voting & end Sunday voting; & Florida took aim at mail voting too.
Sad! 