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still_one

(92,216 posts)
Sun Jan 24, 2021, 10:30 AM Jan 2021

State Republicans push new voting restrictions after Trump's loss

"Republican legislators across the country are preparing a slew of new voting restrictions in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s defeat.

Georgia will be the focal point of the GOP push to change state election laws, after Democrats narrowly took both Senate seats there and President Joe Biden carried the state by an even smaller margin. But state Republicans in deep-red states and battlegrounds alike are citing Trump’s meritless claims of voter fraud in 2020 — and the declining trust in election integrity Trump helped drive — as an excuse to tighten access to the polls.

Some Republican officials have been blunt about their motivations: They don’t believe they can win unless the rules change. “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,” Alice O’Lenick, a Republican on the Gwinnett County, Ga., board of elections in suburban Atlanta, told the Gwinnett Daily Post last week. She has since resisted calls to resign."


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/state-republicans-push-new-voting-restrictions-after-trump-s-loss/ar-BB1d2BXo?ocid=msedgdhp

We have to really put a lot of resources into taking back state legislatures, especially in states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania

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State Republicans push new voting restrictions after Trump's loss (Original Post) still_one Jan 2021 OP
Republicans are such cheats, I think they must be born that way, genetically programmed RKP5637 Jan 2021 #1
So they admit it - can't win a fair election jpak Jan 2021 #2
That is the bottom line. Ya nailed it!!! still_one Jan 2021 #3
Good luck getting any dem gov to sign that shit Thekaspervote Jan 2021 #4
The important thing is we have to get more Democrats elected to state legislatures still_one Jan 2021 #6
They don't even try to hide it. Voter suppression is the only way they can win. Irish_Dem Jan 2021 #5
Adding a link: mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2021 #7
Thanks still_one Jan 2021 #8
"We don't win when people can vote" struggle4progress Jan 2021 #9

RKP5637

(67,109 posts)
1. Republicans are such cheats, I think they must be born that way, genetically programmed
Sun Jan 24, 2021, 10:33 AM
Jan 2021

to cheat and lie!

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,475 posts)
7. Adding a link:
Sun Jan 24, 2021, 05:14 PM
Jan 2021
Dave Weigel Retweeted

Good Politico story here. And this is a big part of the broader story. Editors, I plead to you, your plan for covering the Republican Party in the next two years can't be just covering Republicans in Washington, the Trump family or the 2024 candidates.


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