Florida Senate elections committee just voted to ban all mail ballot drop boxes, which 1.5 million voters used in 2020. 66 of 67 county election supervisors opposed bill
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) March 10, 2021
All across country Republicans weaponizing Trump’s lies to make it harder to vote, even in states they won
Given no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, Republicans have justified new voting restrictions by saying they're about addressing *perceptions* of problems.
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) March 9, 2021
The first few bills to move forward, though, tell a very different tale.https://t.co/DvRBpg61hx
Florida may ban drop boxes used for mail-in ballots https://t.co/u53D1OxdvA
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 10, 2021
Unlike most GOP restrictions on mail voting, this one targets a group of voters who backed Trump in 2020 https://t.co/7JYPEqC3h3
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) March 9, 2021
43 states are debating 200 different voter suppression bills right now.
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) March 8, 2021
Today alone, Iowa shortened early voting by a week, and the Georgia Senate passed a bill ending no-excuse absentee voting.
We must end the filibuster and pass HR1 and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
🚨NEW: If you don't see this as the biggest story of the day, then you don't understand what is about to happen to our democracy. The right-wing is organizing and spending millions to enact voter suppression laws.https://t.co/D3HehtzsJY
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) March 8, 2021
Not just the South. https://t.co/2GttldIsUx
— Midwin Charles, Esq. (@MidwinCharles) March 8, 2021
Breaking: Republicans in Georgia Senate just voted to repeal no-excuse absentee voting, which 1.3 million voters used in November, including 450,000 Republicans
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) March 8, 2021
Georgia Republicans wrote mail voting law & defended until Dems & Black voters started using in large numbers
Sad! 