Right-wing attacks on voting systems in Ohio and Colorado

Federal and state officials are investigating an attempted breach of an Ohio county govt. office, in one of multiple instances this year in which data from a local government office was circulated at a conference promoting false claims of election fraud. https://t.co/mXDrYvPWCR
— CNN (@CNN) November 23, 2021

"the incidents in OH/CO point to an escalation in attacks on voting systems by those embracing Trump’s false claims of 2020 election fraud.

"Trump loyalists pushing for legal challenges are targeting local officials to gain access to election systems." https://t.co/xkZvGsqmrj
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) November 20, 2021

Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters – former campaign manager for @RepBoebert – was accused by state officials in August of helping to leak voting system passwords to a right-wing blog.#BoebertCrimeFamily https://t.co/JMxbAgmxvk
— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) November 18, 2021

Republicans go for control over voting results in Wisconsin

Rather than give Kevin McCarthy's breathless tirade any more oxygen, I direct your attention to what’s happening in Wisconsin. https://t.co/PTFlpawCza
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 19, 2021

Pretty convinced at this point that there’s no way Wisconsin Republicans will allow Biden to win the state’s electoral votes, should he win the most votes in the state in 2024. https://t.co/Kj9aqpxmii
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) November 19, 2021

Slow motion crisis continues; “Republicans in Wisconsin are engaged in an all-out assault on the state’s election system, building off their attempts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential race by pressing to give themselves full control over voting in the state.” https://t.co/ENIgt3TAU4
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) November 19, 2021

WI Gov Tony Evers announces he is vetoing the gerrymandered districts passed by the GOP legislature, after they ignored the map created by a non-partisan commission. “I will fight for non-partisan redistricting to be the law of the land.” pic.twitter.com/aLUSpetoxH
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 18, 2021

Wisconsin, 379 days after the 2020 election https://t.co/4uRl7SdmEr
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) November 17, 2021

Biden is wrong to think Republicans will support voting rights

Republicans have made it very clear that they will suppress voting and make it easier to overturn elections. Biden is wrong to think Republicans will do anything to support voting rights.

Listening carefully again to Biden's answer on voting rights at #BidenTownHall I think it revealed his deepest instincts on the issue in three distinct ways. And all of them will likely be very discouraging to voting rights advocates.
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) July 22, 2021

Sigh. This is frustrating,

My friends on here, “why are you critical of the POTUS?”

3 reasons. He’s wrong on this and weed. And I can.

Ppl paid the ultimate cost for voting rights and the Dem caucus won’t do the bare minimum. It’s also more than JM and KS. We see y’all. https://t.co/mQ8USAWZ51
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) July 22, 2021

This @ElieNYC analysis of the futility of voting rights legislation without Supreme Court expansion is good and unsparing and correct, and this sentence made me audibly wince at how doomed we are https://t.co/CZcZIjW8pB pic.twitter.com/NJVQMSlQNs
— Jay Willis (@jaywillis) July 21, 2021

One day when Mitch McConnell kills the filibuster and a president is elected by voter suppression and state legislators picking the winner, I’m sure both sides will work super hard together to pass a voting rights bill because the rights of others is what the powerful care about. pic.twitter.com/sqUJzWW7fW
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) July 22, 2021

GOP is opposing real Voting Rights because it doesn’t want all of us voting; doesn’t want a public investigation of a white supremacist insurrection, but if we #EndTheFilibusterNow, a relic of segregation, there will be chaos? https://t.co/zuUfu22MMn
— Maya Wiley (@mayawiley) July 22, 2021

Biden saying he wants Republicans who "know better" to support voting rights legislation is the most unconvincing thing he's said tonight. There aren't 10 Republicans of that sort in the Senate. Not even close. https://t.co/l7ZE9sasyT
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 22, 2021

They can’t out-organize this:https://t.co/qnrW4pRGSn
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) July 23, 2021

I don’t expect Republicans to accept the results if they lose the 2024 presidential election. The issue is how to prevent them from overturning elections. Organizing people to vote won’t solve this problem in red states.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) July 23, 2021

Michigan Republicans find no voter fraud

This won’t sit well with Trump or his cult. Maybe they’ll storm the Michigan state house again. The bad news is Republicans want to use the unfounded claims to make it harder to vote.

Michigan Republican legislators issued a report finding no widespread fraud and Biden won. The only “audit” Republicans will accept is the one showing Trump won https://t.co/EeuLWjhMjF
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) July 14, 2021

Michigan Senate GOP leader Mike Shirkey, last week, defending election report that found no evidence of fraud: “The effort by those who are echoing Trump’s scenarios, I just think that they’re, frankly they’re actually destroying the fabric of our nation, and it’s a bit shameful”
— Jonathan Oosting (@jonathanoosting) July 6, 2021

Wow. “A long-awaited report on the 2020 election from a GOP-controlled Michigan Senate committee recommended that Democratic AG Dana Nessel consider investigating individuals who pushed false claims ‘to raise money or publicity for their own ends.’” 1/ https://t.co/pNcCipVtl0
— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) July 3, 2021

A report from a Republican-led Michigan State Senate committee debunks false claims about the 2020 election perpetuated by Trump allies in Michigan and other states. https://t.co/074z7yaTPn
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 23, 2021

In a highly anticipated report, the Republican-led Michigan Senate Oversight Cmte. rebutted former President Trump's voter fraud claims, debunking claims of malfeasance in the state's election last fall and affirming that President Biden was victorious. https://t.co/r65ueDk2n0
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) June 23, 2021

Michigan Republicans did a point-by-point debunking of the false Trumpworld claims you might recall: thousands of dead people voting in Detroit! Dominion stealing votes in Antrim County! All nonsense, as was (or should have been) clear all along. https://t.co/QOnwqGMU4k
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 23, 2021

Opinion | Susan Del Percio: Michigan Republicans reject Trump's election claims but still act like they're true. https://t.co/0zONi4RmcC – @NBCNewsTHINK
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 28, 2021

Opinion | @BarbMcQuade: Trump’s disinformation campaign that the election was stolen from him continues to shape public policy. He has demonstrated that a lie, if repeated often enough, will be believed by many people. https://t.co/320yDKuReK
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 26, 2021

"It confirmed what over 250 audits, countless election officials, numerous court opinions and the majority of Michiganders also know to be true — that our election was secure, successful," MI Sec. of State Benson says about a new report by the state's GOP.https://t.co/pXdoUA2YB2
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 25, 2021

Michigan Republican Party co-chair Meshawn Maddock criticizes timing of Senate GOP panel report on seven-month investigation that found no evidence of widespread fraud in the state's 2020 election. Says Trump advisors "wanted a different approach from our legislature." pic.twitter.com/6hmGAtW1E6
— Jonathan Oosting (@jonathanoosting) June 25, 2021

Terrible Republican election laws

They are afraid they can’t win a fair election. The worst things they are doing concerned how ballots will be counted and certified. They will make it possible for some legislatures to overturn the will of the voters.

As federal voting legislation falters, state Republicans push to exert new powers over elections https://t.co/b6o1KL9hP3
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 24, 2021

The new R laws and the quick flexing of them described in @reidepstein’s article are the structural counterpart to individual actions, such as purging the Republican who cast a legally-mandated, ministerial vote to certify Michigan’s electoral votes. https://t.co/sFM9wvMsEn
— Jonathan Zittrain (@zittrain) June 19, 2021

Read @JRakove explaining why federal legislation to correct voting rights abuses by state legislatures is fully consistent with the intentions of the framers:https://t.co/lFFslyLGuD
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) June 19, 2021

NEW: Local election officials can now be removed or stripped of power under new voting laws implemented this year by Republican legislators in GA, AR, KS and under consideration in AZ.

Most of those ousted already are Black Democrats.
w/@NYTnickc https://t.co/jlY3mqayH6
— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) June 19, 2021

Activists fight back as Juneteenth milestone is undercut by GOP discriminatory voting bills https://t.co/aGczMHIoVp
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 19, 2021

“A passionate base of voters and activists on both sides may be intensely dialed in on the issue, but a disengaged middle is baffled at the attention.” https://t.co/ITvO2jjeYD
— Julie Pace (@jpaceDC) June 19, 2021

weird that georgia republicans are using the new voting to do exactly what critics said georgia republicans would do https://t.co/8Ie1bQUXWp
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) June 19, 2021

it is very very clear where this is all headed and it feels like much of the nation’s political class is in denial about it https://t.co/2bHoTHLOLd
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) June 19, 2021

The worst part of Republican voting laws

They can use this to overturn the voting results. It’s really dangerous.

The dangerous GOP voting laws change who counts the votes | Analysis https://t.co/AjuYwu8pU4
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 6, 2021

NYT editorial board reaching the more or less inescapable conclusion about HR1: "poorly matched to the moment," as it at once fails to address the clearest threats to democracy and attempts to do far more than what's feasible and necessaryhttps://t.co/A0hnT3CC2E
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) June 4, 2021

HR1 doesn’t address vote counting but I don’t think we realized Republicans would be this aggressive in their efforts to prevent election results from standing if they lost.

Opinion: Republicans aren’t just making it harder to vote. They’re going after election officials, too. https://t.co/YVpI04QZ6J
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 9, 2021

"Anxiety is growing among a broad range of civil-rights, democracy-reform & liberal groups over whether Democrats are responding w/enough urgency to the accelerating GOP efforts to both suppress voting & potentially overturn future D election victories." https://t.co/VlJQbPUqvT
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) May 27, 2021

Wow. New Hampshire Republicans are considering passing an amendment that would create separate federal & state election administration systems so the GOP could try to maintain voting restrictions in the latter if Dems in Congress pass voting reforms https://t.co/IFo5leKmtH
— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) May 17, 2021

Yes, the scenario in which Congress doesn't recognize a legitimate election victory is one in which members go "Well, this state says they're not sure the true result and who are we to say for them? Welp, the Constitution says it's up to us to decide the president then." https://t.co/gyDKnFMdYt
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) June 8, 2021

This is true if the election were tomorrow, but all of the trends in the GOP have been moving in one direction for a decade or more. Imagine where we will be with another 3.5 years of radicalization and conspiracy-mongering. We ignore this at our peril https://t.co/10YXSYvUCM
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) June 8, 2021