GOP "tidal wave of voter suppression": 253 restrictions in 43 states

[Nevilledog]

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"We are about to be hit with a tidal wave of voter suppression legislation by Republican legislatures throughout the country," warned Marc Elias, who fears this may result in a historic "contraction of voting rights like we have not seen in recent memory."

GOP “tidal wave of voter suppression”: 253 restrictions in 43 states
The GOP is using Trump’s “big lie” to push a historic “contraction of voting rights," says Democratic lawyer Marc Elias.
salon.com
2:06 PM · Feb 27, 2021

https://www.salon.com/2021/02/27/republicans-roll-out-tidal-wave-of-voter-suppression-253-restrictive-bills-in-43-states/

[Demovictory9]

1. Yep...their plan to counter poc voting

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. and people who won't vote the way they tell them to.

Sure am glad the SCOTUS told us that after 50 years the Voting Rights Act wasn't needed anymore. Fuck you Scalia. Rot in Hell.

[OMGWTF]

16. That pissed me off to no end.

I'm in beautiful Palm Springs too.

[LakeArenal]

2. We need at birth voter registration.

[moondust]

4. Is this why

GQPers are unafraid of losing voters and elections after opposing the American Rescue Plan? Something like 60% of Republicans support the plan.

[live love laugh]

31. Yes... it's why McConnell and Graham DGAF. nt

[Iliyah]

5. Lawsuits will follow and this may take years in the courts .. . . .

but in most part they will be defeated. Meanwhile, many "white" voters especially the young and middle age will vote and it won't be for the republicans. Even white seniors are upset.

Majority of Americans know the Presidential elections was fair.

[Bettie]

27. Well, hopefully, those lawsuits will include

injunctions to keep them from taking effect until they are resolved.

[rickyhall]

6. We need an Amendment to The Constitution.

[barbtries]

7. i hate republicans.

nt.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. They make it so easy.

[bronxiteforever]

9. The GOP wants to go back to 1840 technologically and racially.

Destroy the Post Office and curtail voting rights.
Nothing speaks to the emptiness of GOP platforms than their desire to destroy individual rights and to to take away a national postal service that serves all Americans.

Hollow, hateful and backwards, this is the GOP.

[CousinIT]

10. THERE IS A WAY TO CURB THIS. Contact Schumer and DEMAND

the filibuster be abolished so that the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and The For The People Act can be passed.

Democrats MUST. BE. BOLD. in this or lose BIG in 2022 and 2024.

IMAGINE the House and Senate being in the hands of Boebert/Greene/Gosar/Cruz with Biden as POTUS.

That's straight where we're headed unless Dems get some spine.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. The losses will go far beyond just 2022 and 2024. This shit has to be countered.

[OMGWTF]

17. THIS! THIS! THIS!

[Ferrets are Cool]

21. +1

[DSandra]

25. We can't afford to lose voters in 2022 and 2024

Democrats have to go bold like there is no tomorrow, because there will be no tomorrow if Trump wins again in 2024.

[Fiendish Thingy]

26. Filibuster is staying put unless Schumer puts the screws to Manchin and Sinema. Nt

[CousinIT]

29. We need to pressure the shit out of him. He's not getting enough pressure. n/t

[paleotn]

12. Someone is really, really scared....

of what 2022 will look like without Herr Trump at the top of the ballot. They know they're going to get NOTHING like their 2020 turnout. Magats don't particularly like most Repukes. Just not as much as they hate Dems.

[Hortensis]

13. Courts'll be busy negating much of this acting out of rejection of democracy.

And of course there's our giant "For the People Act" that'll set federal standards for many issues related to the proper functioning of democracy, including but not limited to voting rights.

[Crunchy Frog]

14. It's their plan to end elections as we know them, and cement single party rule.

This is the biggest current threat to our republic, and something we'd better put a LOT more focus on.

[Tommymac]

18. Correction: Single MINORITY party rule. nt

[pfitz59]

15. Congress must step in and set basic rules

All Votes Matter

[BobTheSubgenius]

19. I believe Marc Elias.

Long before he ever said this, I believed it, and the danger is real, great and obvious.

[Ferrets are Cool]

20. Are "we" helpless to do anything about this?

[Lonestarblue]

22. Only 26 states have Republican governors.

A few more have Democratic governors with Reoublican majority legislatures, but 43 seems too many. Fifteen states are considered Democratic strongholds.

[DSandra]

23. "Get back in your place...."

And you can guess what word comes after.

[Ace Rothstein]

24. The 2010 and 2020 elections were disastrous at the state level.

[Bettie]

28. So, which state will be the first to explicitly

attempt to keep people who aren't white and/or male from voting?

C'mon, you know it's coming.

[Maxheader]

30. all that kasaas got done during the browbutt..kohack years..

was tie up the courts with bullshit restrictions on voting rights....