Republicans can't win without cheating, so they do

[TexasTowelie]

by Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald


I’m here to offer you an action list.

With last week’s balloting behind us, we now have just less than a year before one of the most momentous elections in American history. As voters in 1860 had to decide between Union and secession, we face a stark choice of our own: America or Trump. There is no middle ground. This is democracy at its Armageddon.

The good news is, there are far more of us who believe in America than those who believe in Trump. It’s not incidental that he lost the popular vote three years ago or that his party has only won it once since 1992. Nor is it incidental that the nation sides against him and them on hot-button issues like guns, abortion and health care.

But here’s the bad news. Trump’s party knows all too well that the numbers are against them, that they cannot win nationally without cheating. So they do. Behind a fig leaf of concern over imaginary voter fraud, Republicans have imposed photo ID laws, voter purges and polling-place closures that disproportionately disenfranchise those who don’t vote GOP. Meaning, pretty much everyone who’s not a straight, white, angry, older male lacking a college diploma.

So the rest of us must take action — now — to protect our 2020 ballots. That’s why I asked Carol Anderson, a history professor at Emory University and author of “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy,” to compile that action list. Here’s what she advised:

Read more: https://lmtribune.com/opinion/republicans-can-t-win-without-cheating-so-they-do/article_f9a45e75-31c3-5ba3-8d83-9c0630546879.html
(Lewiston Tribune)

[Kablooie]

1. i wonder if Dems could only win by cheating, would they cheat?

If you look at it from the Republican perspective, they consider their priorities to be the best for America so they would see cheating as honorable. It’s the only way to do what’s right for the country even though the majority in the country don’t agree with them. Hard to shame them with that attitude.

[alwaysinasnit]

2. K&R Thanks for posting.

[TexasTowelie]

3. You're welcome.

An increasingly pertinent editorial.

[diva77]

4. I would like to add to the list the following:

If your county uses Ballot Marking Devices (touchscreens that produce a barcoded paper "ballot&quot but also offers vote by mail (or absentee ballot), opt for the vote by mail, but find out if you can bring your ballot to the vote center (or precinct) the day of the election.

At the very least, you will be able to submit a hand-marked paper ballot. Dropping it off the day of the election prevents anyone from tabulating your vote prior to election day.

[beachbumbob]

5. we have known their playbook for a couple of decades, so its our failure

not to take the measure actions in response. If we need proper identification, that is easily solved, if we need to stand in line to vote, so be it. If we need to check to see if we registered to vote, its not rocket science to check and find out. Every election should not be "Groundhog Day" and we are "surprised".

Its up for each one of us to do what it takes. When we don't, why should we be surprised???