Everything You Need to Know About Republican Efforts to Restrict Voting in 2022
In the 2020 election, Joe Biden won the presidency with a history-making 81 million votes and the Democrats took back the U.S. Senate with two upset victories in Georgia. These were largely thanks to three crucial factors: record voter turnout, an expansion of absentee and advance-day voting, and hugely successful voter-registration drives.
The Republican Party is trying to make sure none of that is repeated in 2022.
Throughout the country, Republican-controlled state legislatures are attempting to roll back the Democrats’ gains, complicating the registration and voting processes and, in many cases, specifically targeting the Black electorate that went heavily for Democrats in the last general election. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, at least 43 states are now considering more than 250 Republican-introduced bills that would restrict voter access in future state and local elections, four times the number of such proposed legislation the year before.
“The typical response by a losing party in a functioning democracy is that they alter their platform to make it more appealing,” Kenneth Mayer, an expert on voting and elections at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently told The New York Times. “Here the response is to try to keep people from voting. It’s dangerously antidemocratic.” Below, a closer look at what’s at stake:
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