Republicans Push Crackdown on Crime Wave That Doesn't Exist: Voter Fraud

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The Florida Legislature last week created a law enforcement agency — informally called the election police — to tackle what Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans have declared an urgent problem: the roughly 0.000677% of voters suspected of committing voter fraud.

In Georgia, Republicans in the House passed a law on Tuesday handing new powers to police personnel who investigate allegations of election-related crimes.

And in Texas, the Republican attorney general already has created an “election integrity unit” charged solely with investigating illegal voting.

Voter fraud is exceedingly rare — and often accidental. Still, ambitious Republicans across the country are making a show of cracking down on voter crime this election year. Legislators in several states have moved to reorganize and rebrand law enforcement agencies while stiffening penalties for voting-related crimes. Republican district attorneys and state attorneys general are promoting their aggressive prosecutions, in some cases making felony cases out of situations that in the past might have been classified as honest mistakes.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-push-crackdown-crime-wave-115332733.html

[Mad_Machine76]

1. Except of course

For the sons and daughters of prominent (Republican) politicians.

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2. Because how else could they lose?

It will be fodder for RWers. Hopefully it’ll backfire and cause Dems to make sure they get out and vote. Many are too casual and don’t always vote.

[Mad_Machine76]

3. Yeah. This is insane.

Hope it blows up in their faces. If they don’t actually find much work to do (which they won’t) they’ll certainly try to invent it.