The most extreme voting restrictions proposed by the GOP

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Republican state lawmakers across the country are pressing forward with bills that would add new voting restrictions. They have justified this by pointing to Americans’ (and mostly Republicans’) concerns with the legitimacy of the 2020 election, despite no evidence of actual significant or widespread fraud. But as I wrote Tuesday, the bills themselves go quite a bit further than those concerns would dictate — in ways that lend credence to the idea that this is more about gaming the system.

Beyond the matter of how much these bills actually address the perceived problems, though, is how many of them are extreme. And some proposals are quite extreme — in ways that go beyond what the vast majority of or all states do.

The bills that have gone forward in Georgia and Iowa would, in most ways, move those states in line with how many other states conduct their elections. Whether the restrictions are warranted or in line with GOP claims about why they’re passing them is one question, but they’re generally not outside the mainstream of American politics.

But many other proposals are.

(It bears emphasizing that these are proposals, and legislatures may not press forward with them. But some are, and we’re still in the early days of a clear GOP effort to add restrictions across many states.)

Below are some that are the most extreme or clearly aimed at partisan benefit:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/10/most-extreme-voting-restrictions-proposed-by-gop/