Voter suppression update 3/5/21

A GOP lawyer admitted flat out to Supreme Court that voter suppression is necessary to help Republicans win elections.

Republicans actually have a long history of admitting to this right out in the open. Some choice examples here, in my book:https://t.co/015MYjfRHb pic.twitter.com/Xf511YUuqe
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 3, 2021

In 2024, for 1st time, Millennials and Gen Z (born after 81) will exceed baby boom & older (born before 64) as a % of eligible voters. But the wave of GOP voter suppression in red states could blunt their political emergence. Here's why. https://t.co/lkHxuDSmbm
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) March 2, 2021

Remember when John Roberts and four other Supreme Court justices gutted the Voting Rights Act because they said America had fixed all the racism? It doesn’t look so fixed with dozens of state legislatures considering voter suppression legislation to keep Black people from voting. pic.twitter.com/DYSentJeJr
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) March 2, 2021

“We are seeing the weaponization of Trump's Big Lie. All around the country, Republicans are pointing to the fact that so many of their voters believe the election was stolen as a reason to cut back on voting.”

– @AriBerman on the 200+ GOP proposals to curtail voting pic.twitter.com/C8FVjR40wN
— Alli Hedges Maser (@AllisonLHedges) March 2, 2021

The Republican Party is all in on being a vote-suppression machine in behalf of a minority party. @JVLast https://t.co/PMWWBUeLTt
— Todd Gitlin (@toddgitlin) March 2, 2021

"Their top political goal — voter suppression — is the only means by which they seek to capture power…In dozens of states, Republicans are frantic to enact voting restrictions…It is arguably the only public cause that truly excites them." https://t.co/JZppwcj5bY
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 1, 2021

None of the GOP proposals are random. They are precisely targeting the voters who support their opponents. https://t.co/NKV6Ad6nuH
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) March 1, 2021

They mean business. "The avalanche of legislation raises fundamental questions about a minority of voters exerting majority control in US politics, with Rs winning the pop vote in 1 of the last 8 pres elections but filling 6 of 9 seats on the Supreme Court.https://t.co/rFKKYaFIpw
— Todd Gitlin (@toddgitlin) February 27, 2021

Republicans on Georgia’s Senate Ethics Committee just voted to repeal automatic voter registration, which 5 million of state’s 7.6 million voters used to register. More egregious voter suppression in Georgia
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) February 26, 2021

I am currently tracking voter suppression legislation in:
🗳️Arizona
🗳️Georgia
🗳️Iowa
🗳️New Hampshire
🗳️Missouri
🗳️Montana
🗳️Pennsylvania
🗳️Texas
This is a terrible new reality that I really hope there is the energy and commitment to fight.
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) February 26, 2021

You've probably heard about Georgia's proposed voting restrictions. Here's exactly what they would do and what their chances of passing are. https://t.co/gSoO5zUm6X
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) February 25, 2021

#NEW As of February 19th, Republican lawmakers from 45 different states have introduced over 250 new bills to restrict access to voting, a roughly 7x increase over proposals at this time last year. New restrictions are concentrated in the swing states.https://t.co/dw3S8IkG2u
— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) February 24, 2021

Shocking new data from @brennancenter: 253 bills introduced in 43 states this year to restrict voting access

From AZ to IA to GA to FL, GOP weaponizing Trump’s lies to suppress votes

Could be biggest rollback of voting rights since Jim Crow era https://t.co/NIl4l2Nx9D
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) February 24, 2021

All across country Republicans weaponizing Trump’s lies to make it harder to vote. This is one of most disgusting things I’ve ever seen & underscores why Dems must urgently pass John Lewis Voting Rights Act & For the People Act to stop voter suppression https://t.co/NIl4l2Nx9D
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) February 24, 2021

The fact that Republicans are doing this in Iowa – a state where sky-high turnout almost certainly benefited them up and down the ballot in 2020 – shows how weirdly ideological this push is. https://t.co/HufZ9GXrMQ
— Kevin Robillard (@Robillard) February 24, 2021

The towering wave of GOP voter suppression bills, based on Trump’s big lie of massive voter fraud, is reaching the shore. This is not only a shift in partisan balance but a frontal assault on voting rights. Will Manchin & Sinema let GOP filibusters shield this from any response? https://t.co/dcjhzhPMSw
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 24, 2021

Another red state moving bills making it more difficult to vote. Has there previously been a one-year barrage of this magnitude? Trump could not prove his claims of fraud in any court-but Rs are using them to justify a towering wave of voter suppression. Will Congress Ds resist? https://t.co/VVNggfD0dK
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 24, 2021

Voting rights are enough to kill the filibuster

Republicans will do massive gerrymandering and voter suppression if a new voting rights bill is not passed. They must also restore the changes made when the Supreme Court gutted the previous law. This is enough of a reason to eliminate the filibuster so a voting rights bill can be passed. Ron Brownstein is right.

It is literally true that the D choice on whether to let R filibusters kill federal voting rights, & thus protect R voter suppression & gerrymandering in red states, could shape the next decade or more of US politics & dilute the impact of diverse younger generations for years. https://t.co/y5fnouqZio
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 20, 2021

Thread. Either we reform or eliminate the Jim Crow filibuster, or our democracy slides away. Figuring out how should be the North Star, and we should act when we have the numbers and momentum. If we don’t pass democracy reforms, the other good things we pass are unlikely to last. https://t.co/h5FlTuwC7A
— Adam Jentleson 🎈 (@AJentleson) February 21, 2021

Republicans ramp up voter suppression

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:
🗳️Arizona
🗳️Florida
🗳️Georgia
🗳️Iowa
There are other bad ones, but so far these are the worst. I will have more to say next week.
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) February 20, 2021

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:

Eliminate Sunday Voting, Slash 108 Total Available Hrs of Early Vote, Remove 1 of 2 Sat Vote Options, #gapol 1/8
— Esosa Osa (@Esosa_Osa) February 19, 2021

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

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.

We must be prepared to oppose in legislatures and fight in court.https://t.co/0ZTCueFEGT
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) February 13, 2021

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.

"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
— Charles Bethea (@charlesbethea) January 27, 2021

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:

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.
— Taniel (@Taniel) February 20, 2021

Trump’s big lie will lead to voter suppression

There was no widespread fraud in 2020 but Republican’s will use Trump’s lie to suppress votes. They have already submitted over 100 bills in state legislatures.

From voter ID laws to limiting mail-in ballots, Republican lawmakers in 33 states are considering 165 different laws that would make it harder to vote. @janestreet explains the Republican's effort to restrict access to the ballot box. – @NBCNewsNOW https://t.co/bzJHtqfBaX
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 9, 2021

Update from @BrennanCenter on accelerating GOP attempts to roll back voting rights post 2020: "Thirty-three states have introduced, prefiled, or carried over 165 restrictive bills this year (as compared to 35 such bills in fifteen states on February 3, 2020)." https://t.co/Xxfz5aMrrq
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 8, 2021

This is the operational fallout of Trump’s big lie- Republicans are using it to justify a massive wave of voter suppression across the states https://t.co/58kW4nNarp
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 13, 2021

Great point by @abbydphillip: GOP Senators can't admit that Trump's fraud claims are a lie b/c GOP is using it in states to justify new wave of voter suppression laws-even as they prepare for severe gerrymanders. The question of whether majority can rule is under historic threat
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 11, 2021

The GOP's hardening support for Trump during this Impeachment process makes me worried about the tidal wave of voter suppression legislation we are about to see in GOP controlled states.

We may be tired, but will again need to rally to protect our democracy in court.
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) February 11, 2021

The GOP is all in on rolling back voting rights post 2020. Only question is whether Ds will be as committed to protecting & expanding voting rights by using what could be a brief window of national leverage to pass #HR1 & new #VRA. It’s their most consequential decision. https://t.co/V9qpZMF6q1
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 6, 2021

They can’t win without suppressing the vote👇🏽 https://t.co/h63tCoOlzq
— Midwin Charles, Esq. (@MidwinCharles) February 5, 2021

In 28 states, lawmakers are responding to 2020’s record turnout by trying to roll back voting rights. https://t.co/5UXddkf6qO
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) February 6, 2021

GOP has already become party of Marjorie Taylor Greene at state level, introducing wave of new voter suppression laws based on unhinged conspiracy theories

This is huge scandal that should be getting as much attention as Trump’s plot to overturn election https://t.co/9VsFsWbF1f
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) February 4, 2021

More than 100 bills that would restrict voting are moving through state legislatures.@JohnAvlon: “The right to vote has long been a fight to vote, especially for African Americans … But now we should all realize that we can’t take our democracy for granted.” #RealityCheck pic.twitter.com/281h3fLShU
— New Day (@NewDay) February 4, 2021

@washingtonpost editorial makes a strong case for the federal voting rights & election reform standards in #HR1 but skirts the core issue: should Ds end the filibuster to enact it? B/c if they don't, they won't & they'll get a decade of voter suppression. https://t.co/m1clemI5vU
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 4, 2021

More than 100 bills that would restrict voting are moving through state legislatures https://t.co/v2GY56KL5f pic.twitter.com/UYlVGuZZx9
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 3, 2021

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

Voter suppression 1/24/21

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.

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
— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) January 24, 2021

Here's a link to the full, edited voter suppression piece.

Editor @MicahCohen said to me on the phone (I swear this is verbatim) "are we sure this is about race?"https://t.co/yvHSyGOz7x
— Milo Beckman (@milobela) January 11, 2021

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.”
⁦@nytimes⁩

This is a #VotingRights issue our nation must do something about. https://t.co/l9sJqRQ7mm
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) January 4, 2021

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.

"Lawmakers … are now looking at an outcome of an election and deciding that [these voting laws] didn't benefited them."https://t.co/qZrWtzj4zd
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 1, 2021

"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:

Texas: 750
Arizona: 320
Georgia: 214
Louisiana: 126
Mississippi: 96
Alabama: 72
North Carolina: 29
13 States Total: 1,688https://t.co/nWWszNTNA8
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) November 1, 2020

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

Georgia voter suppression

Republicans have cut the number of Early Voting sites in Georgia’s Cobb County in half — primarily removing sites in minority neighborhoods.

Cobb County has over half a million voters and went for Biden by 14 points in November.

This is what actual election stealing looks like.
— Nate Lerner (@NathanLerner) December 9, 2020

Georgia Just Can’t Quit Trying to Suppress the Vote, Reduces Early Voting Locations by Half in 3rd Largest County https://t.co/tlKjZ1YYW7 via @Yahoo
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) December 9, 2020

Election officials in Cobb County, Georgia, the state's third most populous county, are planning to open fewer than half the early voting locations for the Senate runoff elections in January.

The county swung heavily to Democrats in the general election. https://t.co/owB6tzHGhu
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 8, 2020

Georgia Activists Are Primed to Fight GOP Voter Suppression Tactics In State's Runoff https://t.co/cYelDP5WR2
— LaTosha Brown (@MsLaToshaBrown) December 8, 2020

Voter suppression, in GA

The GOP never learns. 4 of 10 most populated areas are reducing the number of polling locations

Black & Latino areas

They increased our motivation to vote & make sure our friends vote#wtpBLUE #wtpBiden #DemVoice1 #FreshSenate https://t.co/07xR9kev6E
— Maggie-Mae 🌊🌊 💛 (@Sbh08Mae) December 8, 2020

Back to normal in Georgia. Closing polling places in those areas with high numbers of African Americans and most likely to vote Democratic. Will the Republican “heroes” who stood up to Trump stand up for democracy here? No. This is what they do. This is who they are. https://t.co/fJ5ANGGlsX
— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) December 8, 2020

Republican voter suppression

The Trump campaign is contacting local election offices, telling them to ignore their states' election laws –>

“The NC Republican Party advises you to not follow the procedures,” Trump campaign operative Heather Ford wrote in an emailhttps://t.co/NkwkN8KPej
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) October 5, 2020

Ohio GOP has made it so that there is only 1 early voting location & 1 location to drop off mail ballots per county, regardless of population size. Dem counties are much bigger than GOP ones. Heavily Dem Franklin (1.3 million people) has the same as heavily GOP Vinton (13,000) https://t.co/AlGvQr9TsY
— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) October 6, 2020

John Oliver urged Americans to come up with a concrete voting plan after breaking down the ways President Donald Trump and other Republicans are trying to suppress votes or undermine confidence in the results https://t.co/joMaIcd5KN pic.twitter.com/cRkf9g4pzP
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) October 5, 2020

BREAKING: Conservative operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were charged for allegedly orchestrating a series of robocalls aimed at suppressing the vote in the November presidential election, Michigan authorities said https://t.co/ux04qFxHIb
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 1, 2020

More voter suppression. Still think your vote doesn’t matter? https://t.co/xEhQpL5GB9
— Midwin Charles (@MidwinCharles) October 1, 2020

This is very bad. Donald Trump Jr. is now telling supporters that millions of mail ballots *will inevitably* be fraudulent, as part of a plot to "steal the election." Let's be clear: This is an effort to create cover for mass voter suppression. New piece:https://t.co/lgUdk8DpLz
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 22, 2020

NEW: Colorado's Secretary of State @JenaGriswold tells me she urged @USPS not to send postcards she says contain "misinformation" about voting in Colo.

USPS did it anyway.

Now, she is suing LOUIS DeJOY & USPS, alleging an "attempt at voter suppression." https://t.co/IYSsaeLfKT
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) September 12, 2020

Colorado is suing Dejoy and the @USPS for making false statements to Colorado voters–including military voters– that will result in voter suppression.

It's only September… pic.twitter.com/tlDUQ99pdy
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) September 12, 2020

The results are astonishing. Of the more than 300,000 names that were purged from the rolls — nearly 4% of the total number of registered voters in the state — the study discovered that 198,351 Georgia voters were wrongly purged, a 63.3% error rate. https://t.co/QgkbIMD67I
— Greg Palast (@Greg_Palast) September 4, 2020

BREAKING: New expert analysis of GA long-lines during primary shows outrageous racial disparity:

➡️Average minimum voting wait time in the evening in minority areas was 51 minutes.

➡️In white areas, the average was 6 minutes.

This is why we sued and why we must win! pic.twitter.com/lpHghKOEwq
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) September 2, 2020

“The state of Georgia has likely removed nearly 200,000 Georgia citizens from the voter rolls for wrongfully concluding that those people had moved and not changed the address on their voter registration, when in fact they never moved…” https://t.co/vvGFoQAI2a
— Vanita Gupta (@vanitaguptaCR) September 2, 2020

Trump is moving in unprecedented ways to suppress voting by any means (including Election Day intimidation). But as on many fronts he's not a departure 4 GOP but a culmination of red state voter ID, closing polls, limiting early vote etc since John Roberts eviscerated #VRA in 13
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 23, 2020

Hi yes the GOP was under a 36 year restriction from that kind of active voter suppression under the guise of “security.” @TheDemocrats @DNC @DNCWarRoom and @ACLU and state AGs must challenge this in court IMMEDIATELY.https://t.co/IdL8rjHAKR
— Locke's Valentine (@LockeUnfiltered) August 21, 2020

This is extremely disturbing voter suppression

In 1980s GOP placed police officers at black & Hispanic precincts in NJ to intimidate voters of color. That led to 30 year consent decree against party

Now Trump campaign recruiting 50,000 poll watchers to challenge Dems at polls https://t.co/bEg5nGeR0c
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) August 21, 2020

“Trump believes that his unfounded claims about mail voting are enough to discourage voters — that he can use the presidential ‘bully pulpit’ to achieve vote suppression" https://t.co/0SUvwYgr4c
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) August 17, 2020

Donald Trump and Fox News were the biggest spreaders of misinformation about mail-in voting

Massive Harvard study finds that Donald Trump and Fox News were the biggest spreaders of misinformation about mail-in voting, much more so than Russian bots or Facebook clickbait:https://t.co/DTk7Zxss9P
— Charlotte Alter (@CharlotteAlter) October 3, 2020

And Trump is the biggest spreader of misinformation about the coronavirus

Republican voter suppression in Texas

One drop box for almost 5 million people! This is blatant voter suppression.

Editorial board of ⁦@HoustonChron⁩ says it straight: Governor Abbott’s closure of ballot drop-off locations is voter suppression. Plain and simple. https://t.co/xvsqRgzBHy
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) October 3, 2020

Voting rights advocates sue to block Texas governor’s order limiting counties to one ballot drop-off location https://t.co/YB4GcIeJVz
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) October 2, 2020

Texas Democrats are planning to take Gov. Greg Abbott to federal court over his controversial move to shutter locations across the state where voters can drop off their mail-in ballots to be counted for the general election https://t.co/rfq8gE2wB4
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 1, 2020

Harris County clerk: “To force hundreds of thousands of seniors and voters with disabilities to use a single drop-off location in a county that stretches nearly 2,000 square miles is prejudicial and dangerous.” https://t.co/d7GHcvhLh3
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 1, 2020

Why?

—>> Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a proclamation limiting drop-off locations for mail-in ballots to one per county.

The move significantly affects Harris County, the state's largest county by population, one of the largest in the country, and a Democratic stronghold.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 1, 2020

How GOP voter suppression works in Texas

-you can vote with gun permit but not student ID

-no online voter registration

-must be deputized to register voters

-voters under 65 can’t use fear of covid to vote by mail

-only 1 place to drop ballots off in huge Dem counties
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 1, 2020

Heres how we overcome this latest voter suppression bullshit: we call Texas voters tonight and ask them to make a plan to vote during Early Voting (12 days away). We cannot allow Abbott to deter, deny or defeat us. Sign up here and lets do the work to win: https://t.co/mpDxpOfSBb https://t.co/bWXh871YJ2
— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) October 1, 2020

WaPo: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a proclamation limiting each of the state's counties to only one mail-in ballot drop-off location for the November election.

Texas Democrats immediately criticized Abbott's move as "a blatant voter suppression tactic."
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 1, 2020

NEW: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott limits election drop boxes to one per county. He says the move was made to enhance ballot security, but critics warn it could severely limit access for many voters https://t.co/JIg0lsVYJ4
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 1, 2020

The particular game here is that Texas has 254 counties, most of which are tiny. But also five counties with populations of over one million.

So the one drop-off point per county rule delivers a huge advantage to residents of those small rural counties. https://t.co/rA5hQoBuH9
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 1, 2020

To put this in perspective:
Washington DC:
68 square miles
700,000 residents
Dozens of ballot drop-off boxes

Harris County, Texas
1,777 square miles
4.7 million residents
1 ballot drop-off location https://t.co/LAbAeBMLbv
— Aman Batheja (@amanbatheja) October 1, 2020

BREAKING: In what will surely spark a Texas election controversy, Gov Greg Abbott is ordering counties to only operate one mail-in ballot drop-off location. Harris County had opened nearly a dozen drop sites in a county that's larger than Rhode Island. More details to come..
— ed lavandera (@edlavaCNN) October 1, 2020

This is Republican voter suppression at high level. You would think a governor who is disabled might show a little sensitivity to making voting more accessible to all Texans.Why are Republicans afraid of more people voting? @GregAbbott_TX https://t.co/QIwhzdwEyI
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) October 1, 2020

This is voter suppression in action, a conscious effort to make it much harder to vote in urban areas — which are more Black, Hispanic & Democratic — than in rural areas. It’s blatant discrimination, made easier by a a right-wing Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act. https://t.co/CIj2hmN3nt
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) October 1, 2020

For those of you not from Texas, Harris County includes Houston, and has more people than 24 states. It will have one drop box. https://t.co/IdnDihT38v
— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) October 1, 2020

"This has President Trump written all over it with the Governor changing the rules with 33 days until the most important election of our lifetime to make it harder to vote," says Clay Jenkins. https://t.co/pjNd0Ji5LN
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 2, 2020

Trump is trying to prevent people from voting in Pennsylvania

There are issues over “naked” ballots that don’t have an envelope inside the mailing envelope and how long mail ballots will be accepted. This will wind up in courts just like Republican voter suppression efforts in other states.

Pennsylvania Republicans plan to appeal mail ballot deadline ruling to U.S. Supreme Court https://t.co/l8STYB4tMU
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 23, 2020

🚨UPDATE: Last night the Pennsylvania Federal Court DISMISSED GOP naked ballots and third-party ballot delivery claims. Court also ruled that it will continue to ABSTAIN from ballot drop-box site claims and notice requirements. More here re next steps👇https://t.co/xHdwqx0X0B
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) September 23, 2020

They're called 'naked ballots'. Tonight, there's concern they could disenfranchise 100,000 Pennsylvania voters. In 2016, the state was decided by 44,000 votes.

Key reminder: Ballot goes into secrecy envelope, both go into outer, declaration envelope.https://t.co/cPLTbu2tWd pic.twitter.com/Zk5jNbFAsb
— David Kaplan (@DKaplanWTAE) September 22, 2020

Calling all billionaires with a belief in democracy!@chrislhayes explains how “naked ballots” could cost Joe Biden the Pennsylvania vote and why an educational campaign is more important than ever. pic.twitter.com/xfnFO21s0D
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) September 23, 2020

Look, regardless of the outcome, 80-100k or more PA ballots being tossed out on a technicality is a foreseeable train wreck. Perhaps more national news outlets should be picking this up? https://t.co/wX65ghFUgP
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) September 22, 2020

In a letter to GOP state leg leaders, an election official warns 100K PA voters could be disenfranchised b/c of a ruling rejecting naked ballots. It "set PA up to be the subject of significant post-election legal controversy, the likes of which we have not seen since FL in 2000." pic.twitter.com/3ml96W00EX
— Holly Otterbein (@hollyotterbein) September 21, 2020

A few people brushed off my PA "naked ballots" scenario the other day as "concern trolling." In reality, it's a very serious issue.

Here is the *chairwoman of Philadelphia's city commissioners* warning that 30,000-40,000 mail ballots could be invalidated in Philadelphia ALONE. https://t.co/Wr0YCnBW1C
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) September 21, 2020

Just heard from a reporter in western PA who's about to uncover yet *another* county where the naked ballot rate was ~5% in June. This appears to be the norm, not the exception.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) September 22, 2020

“The state Supreme Court in PA, a critical battleground state that’s seen as increasingly likely to determine who wins the White House, last week ordered officials to throw out ‘naked ballots’ — mail ballots that arrive w/o inner ‘secrecy envelopes.’” 1/ https://t.co/vvEJCIft8g
— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 (@jennycohn1) September 22, 2020

"Naked" ballot rules put thousands of Pennsylvania mail-in votes at risk, Philadelphia official warns https://t.co/fLJ9IkRsMo pic.twitter.com/SwfJfXyVlV
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 22, 2020