Rigged Elections; GOP Lawmakers Stealing Our Electoral Process In Broad Daylight, Jim Hightower

[appalachiablue]

OUR ELECTIONS ARE BEING RIGGED. Republican lawmakers are stealing our electoral process in broad daylight. By Jim Hightower, OtherWords.org | March 10, 2021.

After looking into one of their main issues, I have to agree with Republicans: Our elections are being rigged. Anyone who takes an honest look can see that the electoral process is being stolen in broad daylight. By Republican lawmakers. In state after state, GOP governors and legislators are on a rampage to rig the system so you can’t vote. By “you,” I mean you African-Americans, Latinx voters, Asian Americans, Indigenous people, and practically all other non-white citizens. But also you seniors, union members, poor people, students, immigrant families, and others with a tendency to vote for Democrats.

Fraudulently shouting “fraud,” GOP officials insist that they must steal your democratic right to vote in order to protect the “sanctity” of the vote. They are actually confessing their own embarrassing weakness and political ineptitude by admitting: “We can’t win!” Their line-up of squirrely, increasingly kooky candidates — and their anti-people, corporate serving agenda — can’t draw majority support.

So their only hope to be elected is to jerry-rig America’s democratic process with barriers, locks, bans, etc. to shut millions of citizens out of their polling places. Their 7-million-vote defeat in last year’s presidential race has spooked the Republican minority into a stampede of voter suppression initiatives this year. The Brennan Center for Justice, which tracks such maneuvers, reports that at least 253 bills have been introduced in 43 states to further obstruct Americans from casting ballots.

These new schemes are aggressively repressive, including preventing absentee voting, cutting early voting, eliminating mail-in voting, restricting the number and convenience of polling locations, and even allowing legislators to toss the voters’ choice in presidential elections and declare another candidate the victor. This is pathetic, disgraceful political thuggery — not only stealing people’s birthright, but stealing democracy from America itself. To help reject their shameful corruption of elections, go to CommonCause.org.

https://otherwords.org/our-elections-are-being-rigged/

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. SCUMBAGS ... notice how NOT ONE of things would actually do anything to prevent

the sort of fraud that they claim (WITH NO EVIDENCE) occurs all the time?

NONE OF IT.

All it does it makes it more of a hassle and burden to vote. Because they have calculated that their voters are overall slightly more able, and slightly more willing (and it only has to be by the TINIEST amount, given how evenly divided much of the country is) to jump through hoops to cast their ballots than the other side's voters are, on average.

And then they also make it easier for their voters by flooding red areas with polling places, and having as few as possible in blue areas. At least, in the states where the GOP holds the legislature and/or Secretary of State's office.

[appalachiablue]

2. And the public is largely unaware of all

the grimy, vast skullduggery and theft in place.