Scholars warn democracy is threatened, call for voting rights protections

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A group of university professors and scholars on Tuesday signed onto a statement calling for increased federal voting protections, warning that U.S. democracy is "now at risk" with the wave of recent GOP-led legislative proposals across the country seeking to implement sweeping voting overhauls.

The dozens of academics, which included political science and government professors at schools like Stanford, Harvard and Cornell, in the letter called themselves "scholars of democracy who have watched the recent deterioration of U.S. elections and liberal democracy with growing alarm."

"Specifically, we have watched with deep concern as Republican-led state legislatures across the country have in recent months proposed or implemented what we consider radical changes to core electoral procedures in response to unproven and intentionally destructive allegations of a stolen election," they added.

"Collectively, these initiatives are transforming several states into political systems that no longer meet the minimum conditions for free and fair elections," the scholars added in the statement, which was published by public policy think tank New America.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/scholars-warn-democracy-is-threatened-call-for-voting-rights-protections/ar-AAKB9XF

[onecaliberal]

1. There is nothing to worry about.

Don’t be negative and “scare” people. It’s all fine, really!

[Crunchy Frog]

2. Yes, why all the doom and gloom? They're just trying to discourage people from voting.

[onecaliberal]

5. When items required to vote are designed to STOP

people from voting that is a whole other thing than discouraging. Would you like to stand in line for 5 hours to vote? How about if you were a single mom who can’t take time off work and are now barred from mail in voting because of new laws. Just because it’s easy for you to vote doesn’t mean people should sit back and be okay with suppressing voters simply because it’s not you. And pretending like this is not concerning flies in the face of reality.

[Crunchy Frog]

7. I was playing along with what I assumed was sarcasm. I apologize for any misunderstanding.

I very much agree with your assessment.

[Doc Sportello]

3. Seems I read that somewhere

Perhaps on this forum. Biden said democracy is in peril, but I probably shouldn't tell people that.

[onecaliberal]

6. Oh no... we should be happy republicans are fucking the country over

And passing laws to revoke legally cast votes because they can.

[StarfishSaver]

4. As I noted in another thread

Democracy has always been under threat, especially in the way that the voting rights of Black and Brown people have been oppressed. It's just that now white people are feeling it, so now it's finally being seen as a crisis.