Schumer blasts GOP-led voting restrictions, says 'legislatures are making it easier to own a gun

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than to vote'

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday criticized Republican efforts to enact new restrictive voting laws, just hours before the upper chamber is due to take up a sweeping elections-reform bill.

"Republican legislatures are making it easier to own a gun than to vote," the New York Democrat said on the Senate floor. "Republican legislatures are making it harder to vote early, harder to vote by mail, harder to vote after work. They're making it a crime to give food or water to voters waiting in long lines."

Schumer called former President Donald Trump's debunked claims about the 2020 election the "match that lit a wildfire" of GOP-led proposals aimed at restricting voting access.

After the 2020 presidential election, Republican states introduced or passed legislation to limit voting access. In March, for example, Georgia enacted a controversial voting-reform bill that included provisions to expand early voting, but also requires IDs for absentee ballots and bars volunteers from distributing water, food, and folding chairs to voters waiting in long lines.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/schumer-blasts-gop-led-voting-restrictions-says-legislatures-are-making-it-easier-to-own-a-gun-than-to-vote/ar-AALjIKE

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1. More important than all of that: Vote counting/nullification schemes.

I am NOT defending voter suppression. It is horrible and unjustifiable, but we can beat it with lots of work and plenty of communication with our voters.

What we will not be able to defeat would be their plans to have partisans count the votes, and even MORE problematic is that they have and are setting things up so that the GOP legislatures and top office holders in several states can simply change the result if they don't like it.

We need to STOP talking about prohibitions on giving voters in lines food and water! That is nothing but the GOP's shiny object to distract us from what is the most important thing. Shumer should know better!

Here's the key line/meme to describe things to voters in a way that will spur action: "They are trying to end democracy by giving themselves the power to overturn vote totals and put their losing candidates into office in opposition to the intent of the voters".

Our office holders and party surrogates should have already been on the news shows repeatedly and in unison getting that point across. THAT is how they win arguments in the minds of voters, and why WE lose them!