A scorching reply to Georgia's vile new voting law unmasks a big GOP lie

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Marc E. Elias
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"Republican officials cannot tell their voters this truth, because the very fact that Republicans lost the election legitimately is what necessitates the new voter suppression efforts.Telling that truth would deprive Republicans of their rationale for them"

Opinion | A scorching reply to Georgia’s vile new voting law unmasks a big GOP lie
Republicans are ramping up voter suppression precisely because they lost the last election legitimately.
washingtonpost.com
7:28 AM · Mar 26, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/26/reply-georgia-voting-law-marc-elias/

The 2020 elections in Georgia should have been cause for celebration among everyone, not just Democrats who won the state’s presidential and Senate races. Amid extremely challenging conditions, election officials took smart, public-spirited steps to ensure that as many voters as possible could participate.

That should have been widely cheered. Yet it’s precisely what the state’s Republican officials apparently want to ensure never happens again.

Georgia Republicans just passed a far-reaching voter suppression law that is shockingly blatant in its efforts to restrict voting. It was signed Thursday by Gov. Brian Kemp (R), as one Democratic lawmaker who sought to watch was arrested.

In multiple ways, the measure appears designed to target African American voters, the very voters who drove the 2020 Democratic wins. That complaint is at the core of a new lawsuit filed on Thursday night against the law.

But the lawsuit also exposes — in a fresh way — the appalling dishonesty of Republicans who continue using former president Donald Trump’s lie about the election to justify voter suppression efforts everywhere.

Most conspicuously, the new law bars third-party groups from sharing food and water with people waiting in voting lines. It imposes new ID requirements for vote-by-mail, restricts drop boxes for mail ballots and bans mobile voting places, among many other things.

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[uponit7771]

1. How is this not a direct threat to democracy ?!

[Evolve Dammit]

5. It absolutely is. Seditionists and racists in suits.

[uponit7771]

7. +1, I was never scared of Al Qaeda or the Russians etc but it seems like Republicans are OK with

... ending democracy and going into autocracy.

Republicans seem way of a threat to what this country stands for than any of those aforementioned oragainzations.

[Evolve Dammit]

8. Many of the GOP are domestic terrorists. And the irony? They think the same of us?? JFC. nt

[Evolve Dammit]

10. Sadly, I agree. The party has been completely taken over by a rabid, hateful, no rules cult.

[dalton99a]

2. Republicans can only win by cheating and lying.

[malaise]

11. I disagree

They lied, cheated and LOST

[iemanja]

3. Yes, and they know it

Neither they nor their voters care.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. Nailed it.

[crickets]

4. K&R for visibility.

[Claire Oh Nette]

6. Blatant suppression and assholery

The state wants to regulate who can provide goods and services to those the state is requiring to stand in longer lines because the state wants to make it harder for certain neighborhoods (Black ones) to vote.

What about the invisible hand of the free market, who spots an untapped market? I can't sell tacos and water for a penny or two to those on line who picked up the pennies I dropped at their feet?

It's not sharing if you sell it, even at a 100% loss.

It makes me want to get a back pack and load it up with snacks and juice boxes for my very long stay in line. Like they're daring me to vote. OK....

Unconstitutional.