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yaesu

(8,020 posts)
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 01:34 PM Jan 2021

GOP operatives are sending out clear signals about the next attack on democracy

Hours after President Biden declared that "democracy has prevailed" during his inaugural address, longtime Republican strategist Karl Rove urged Republicans to pressure GOP election officials and legislators to create "a model election code" to reconsider the laws surrounding 2020's two voting options that led to the presidential election's record turnout.

"Republicans should also encourage GOP secretaries of state and state lawmakers to develop a model election code," Rove wrote in a January 20 commentary for the Wall Street Journal entitled, "The Republican Future Starts Now."

"The job of proposing electoral reforms shouldn't be based on the unsupported claims of widespread fraud peddled by Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell," Rove continued. "Instead, the goal should be to suggest measures that restore public confidence in our democracy. How do states with extensive mail-in and early voting like Florida and Texas get it right?"

Rove's commentary comes as Republican-majority legislatures in battleground states such as Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona have proposed bills or convened hearings to review the laws that allowed people to vote with mailed-out ballots or early in-person in 2020.

https://www.rawstory.com/karl-rove/

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GOP operatives are sending out clear signals about the next attack on democracy (Original Post) yaesu Jan 2021 OP
KKKarl is that hemorrhoid that just wont go away. NoMoreRepugs Jan 2021 #1
TX, FL, and NC didn't get it right. Laelth Jan 2021 #2
In other words, fine new ways suppress Democratic votes. brush Jan 2021 #3
Precisely. n/t Laelth Jan 2021 #7
It's funny that they NEVER ever consider changing their platform to conform to... machoneman Jan 2021 #4
That's because drmeow Jan 2021 #5
They can't hide behind a platform that is 100% for billionaires and multi-national corporations. yaesu Jan 2021 #6
Trump was their trial run to permanent Republican rule. badboy67 Jan 2021 #8

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
2. TX, FL, and NC didn't get it right.
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 01:41 PM
Jan 2021

GA is what happens when a state “gets it right,” and that’s the last thing Republicans want.

-Laelth

machoneman

(4,007 posts)
4. It's funny that they NEVER ever consider changing their platform to conform to...
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 02:06 PM
Jan 2021

...what the vast majority of Americans want.

Nope, it's always their stated goal, in words and in action, to bend the will of the people to what THEY want, regardless of the topic or benefit to all. We want health care, they want tax cuts but only for the wealthy. We want help for the poor and disadvantaged, they want more $ for the military. We want better pay, they want to bust unions and keep the Federal wage minimum at less than $8 an hour. I could go on and on...............

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
6. They can't hide behind a platform that is 100% for billionaires and multi-national corporations.
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 02:13 PM
Jan 2021

its just too obvious but they do have one of the best propaganda networks since hitler so that kind of makes up for it.

badboy67

(460 posts)
8. Trump was their trial run to permanent Republican rule.
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 08:08 PM
Jan 2021

Expect them to have the kinks worked out next time.

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