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CousinIT

(9,151 posts)
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 10:51 AM Feb 2021

Kentucky GOP blocks governor from making voting safe during pandemic

https://americanindependent.com/kentucky-governor-andy-beshear-senate-house-bills-lawsuit-covid-19-voting-emergency-mail/

Kentucky's GOP-controlled Legislature on Tuesday stripped the state's Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear of his power to expand access to voting by mail in emergency situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic in the latest move by Republicans to restrict access to the ballot box.

Beshear had vetoed S.B. 1, a bill introduced in the state Senate by Republicans in late January that limited his ability to issue emergency executive orders and barred him from changing election procedures during an emergency. But the Republican-controlled Legislature overrode the veto, officially eliminating Beshear's ability to increase access to mail-in ballots, the Louisville Courier Journal reported.

Beshear has filed a lawsuit in state court against Attorney General Daniel Cameron and the leaders of the House and Senate seeking to have S.B. 1 and other bills passed by the Legislature ruled unconstitutional, claiming that "if allowed to take effect [they] will cause significant harm to the Governor’s constitutional duty to respond [to] COVID-19 and the overall public health during the pandemic."

S.B. 1 is one of 106 bills Republicans have introduced in state legislatures across the country in January aimed at restricting voting rights in the wake of Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election, according to a report from the Brennan Center for Justice.

Most of those bills seek to cut back on voters' ability to cast ballots by mail, either by limiting the number of people who can use the method or by putting in place impediments to actually voting by mail, such as requiring photocopies of ID cards or banning ballot drop boxes.
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Kentucky GOP blocks governor from making voting safe during pandemic (Original Post) CousinIT Feb 2021 OP
Such a consistently ignorant place when the GOP is running too many things. n/t RKP5637 Feb 2021 #1
Calling on Eric Holder and Stacy Abrams. Also Joe Biden and his team. msfiddlestix Feb 2021 #2
This is why we need a voting rights act. Liberal In Texas Feb 2021 #3
AMEN! CurtEastPoint Feb 2021 #4
This might help (link) HR1's have been passed for the last 20 years uponit7771 Feb 2021 #5

Liberal In Texas

(13,453 posts)
3. This is why we need a voting rights act.
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 10:57 AM
Feb 2021

And I would like it to see that all ballots are mail-in like Oregon and other states already do. No more machines.


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