Religious-Right Group My Faith Votes Backs GOP Voter Suppression Campaign

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Religious-right GOTV operation My Faith Votes is the latest right-wing group with an "election integrity" project pushing state voter-suppression laws and fighting federal voting rights legislation

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My Faith Votes, a political organization devoted to turning out conservative Christians to support right-wing candidates, has jumped on the very crowded voter-suppression bandwagon with a new project...
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2:33 PM · May 13, 2021

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/religious-right-group-my-faith-votes-backs-gop-voter-suppression-campaign/

My Faith Votes, a political organization devoted to turning out conservative Christians to support right-wing candidates, has jumped on the very crowded voter-suppression bandwagon with a new project called “Election Integrity Now.”

Voter suppression in the name of “election integrity” has become the Republican Party’s top strategy for taking and keeping political power in the wake of the 2020 elections, whose record turnout put Democrats over the top in key states. It’s getting hard to keep track of the number of right-wing projects promoting state laws to make it harder for people to register and vote.

In a Thursday email promoting the new project, My Faith Votes refers to a “big lie” about the elections. But they’re not talking about the real big lie that is being used to justify a wave of voter suppression laws at the state level—that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, with a subtext implicating Black and brown voters. No, according to My Faith Votes, the “big lie that’s being perpetrated by the media and big corporations” is that the country can’t “help every eligible voter cast their ballot AND introduce reasonable safeguards into our election.”

“The 2020 elections revealed genuine concerns in the election process that could threaten election integrity and our Constitutional Republic’s very foundation,” claims the Election Integrity Now site. “Yet, even more damaging than election fraud is the lost confidence many Christians now have in the election system. The resulting apathy leads Christians to once again sit on the sidelines of the civic process.”

One suspects that the real “problem” that My Faith Votes is trying to address is the election of President Joe Biden and, in Georgia, Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.

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