GOP Lost 2020 Election: Now They Want to Make it Harder to Vote and Win Future Races

 

 Lines for Early Voting in 2020

(All across the nation — Good for Democracy)

Short intro to this post from the NY TIMES:

WASHINGTON — In GA, AZ, and a few other states won by President Joe Biden, some leading Republicans stood up in November to make what, in any other year, would be an unremarkable statement: “The race is over. And we lost, fair and square.” 

(I add: So, what has happened to those level-headed Republicans – they seem to have all disappeared as the main post below shows).

Main Post: There was a national record of votes cast in 2020, yet Republicans are distraught about Trump losing and now they will try what they always do when they lose: Make it harder to vote as this NY TIMES story and headline tells:

“After Record Turnout, Republicans Are Trying to Make It Harder to Vote”

More background here from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU experts on voting in America.

The GOP also had a record voter turnout as did the DEMS. All that is very good to great news for our democracy, but somehow the GOP is not happy that Trump lost following his wild accusations about the election (even before the first vote was cast that it was rigged). Now the GOP (via mostly hardcore Conservatives) when they lose do what they have for decades – tighten the rules for voting to favor themselves.

Now, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU, many state GOP legislators have filed 106 bills to tighten election rules making it harder to cast a ballot. That number is triple the number at this same time last year wherein they did the exact same thing: Try to make it harder to vote and thus benefit the GOP.

Historical Fact: Republicans have for more than a decade have used wildly inflated allegations of voter fraud to justify making it harder to vote. This time they are clinging to Trump’s thoroughly debunked charges of a stolen, rigged, false election that mostly will push back in Democratic-leaning districts who flocked to vote and millions who filed mail-in ballots last year due to the virus restrictions about keeping a social distance and not having to stand in line for hours to vote.

Example, in GA, their House of Representatives has set up a special committee on election integrity. GOP members are pushing a roll back no-excuse absentee voting.

In PA, Republicans plan 14 hearings to revisit complaints they raised last year about the election and to propose limitations on voting – all that were tossed out by numerous court decisions.

And, the list continues in other RED-leaning states, too.

The two links above continue with important information on this very critical issue.

Thank goodness for these watchful eyes — a very big set of eyes, too:

Needed now more than ever, and rightly so

My 2 cents: Nothing except to ensure that our elections are fair, safe, secure, and widely used is what matters … and, not changing the standards after an election that makes it harder, not easier, to vote just because your side lost. But, that is in the GOP’s DNA.

Quite simply, they know no other way. Plus, all the while they keep blaming others for any flaws in the system that cause them to lose – rather than facing the facts: Voters did not want them in office.

Now, rather than working to make elections more safe and secure and continually fair and balanced, they work hard to make it more difficult to vote.

That is sad, very sad indeed. So, stay tuned for more updates on this as time goes by.

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