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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,256 posts)
Thu Jan 21, 2021, 07:31 PM Jan 2021

GOP Chairwoman of Election Board in Gwinnett County, Ga., Calls for Election Laws to Be Changed

So Her Party Can Win

Republicans are still peeved at the powerful showing of historically marginalized voters—Black people, specifically—who gave Democrats the win in the White House and the Senate. This was evidenced recently by the violent Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, aka a tantrum thrown by white people mad that they don’t have a monopoly on choosing who runs this country.

Alice O’Lenick, the chairwoman of the Gwinnett County Board of Registrations and Elections in Georgia, is not hiding her anger with the democratic process that allowed voters in the region (which is a suburban part of Atlanta) to help turn the state blue by voting for Biden as president and Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff for the U.S. Senate.

O’Lenick told her fellow party members at a recent GOP meeting that her sights are set on changing election laws so they can win next time.

“I’m like a dog with a bone. I will not let them end this session without changing some of these laws,“ O’Lenick said, according to a report from the Gwinnett Daily Post. “They don’t have to change all of them, but they’ve got to change the major parts of them so that we at least have a shot at winning.”

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/republican-chairwoman-election-board-gwinnett-183400584.html

A dog with a bone? Meaning you'll growl, piss and shit all over the place.
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uponit7771

(90,367 posts)
11. +1, ... and the reason why attempts at voter suppression even via legislation should be a felony
Thu Jan 21, 2021, 09:29 PM
Jan 2021

FakeNoose

(32,787 posts)
2. They don't know how to win unless they cheat
Thu Jan 21, 2021, 07:33 PM
Jan 2021


Or maybe ... it's that they know they can't win unless they cheat.

BadGimp

(4,019 posts)
7. forgive me for repeating the obvious...
Thu Jan 21, 2021, 08:19 PM
Jan 2021

again

“… If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” 

― David Frum, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic  2019

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
8. If there's anything Republicans hate, it's a fair fight and a level playing field
Thu Jan 21, 2021, 08:20 PM
Jan 2021

This is an easy case to make, and Democrats should make it at every opportunity.

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