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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMark E. Elias tweet: States I am monitoring for new voter suppression laws:
and some of the governors will be more than happy to suppress more voters. Abbott, deSantis, Gianforte, etc.
🗳️Arizona
🗳️Iowa (lawsuit filed)
🗳️Florida
🗳️Georgia (lawsuit filed)
🗳️Montana
🗳️New Hampshire
🗳️Texas
Expect the GOP to pass more bad voting laws.
Expect more litigation to protect the right to vote.
It is only March 2021.
Link to tweet
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)what a way to win over POCs.
MiHale
(9,713 posts)Sleazy ass republicans trying here also.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/03/24/michigan-senate-gop-election-reform-laws/6963314002/
From article...
Michigan Republican senators joined a national push Wednesday seeking new election regulations and restrictions, following a conservative movement calling for changes despite no evidence of widespread voting fraud or misconduct associated with the 2020 election.
While GOP leaders say the bills will make it easier to vote and harder to cheat, Democrats and other opponents argue the proposals will restrict voting and are premised on lies perpetuated by former president Donald Trump and his supporters.
The proposals drawing the most ire would introduce new identification requirements for requesting absentee ballots, prohibit the secretary of state from making absentee ballot applications available online, ban clerks from supplying prepaid return postage for absentee ballots, bar clerks from counting absentee ballots in the weeks leading up to the election and impose new requirements for ballot drop boxes.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)It is a GOP fascist power grab.
gab13by13
(21,283 posts)In Pa. you have to renew whether you want a mail in ballot sent to you every year. Well, I got my request for a mail in ballot and this year I had to provide my driver's license number.