Voter Suppression Laws Backfire And Make It Harder For White Republicans To Vote

[applegrove]

BY JASON EASLEY at PoliticusUSA

Voter Suppression Laws Backfire And Make It Harder For White Republicans To Vote

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/09/25/voter-suppression-laws-backfire-and-make-it-harder-for-white-republicans-to-vote.html

"SNIP.....

Many Republicans slowly realize that their talk of fraud and new voter suppression laws are causing fewer Republicans to vote.

.......

Voting.

The Wall Street Journal recently wrote about the concerns of red-state Republicans:

In Texas, one Republican state legislator wrote a newspaper column where he openly wondered why the legislators were “trying to make it harder for Republican voters to vote?” In Iowa, a Republican election commissioner from rural Adams County asked the same thing at a hearing on new voter rules in that state. And in Florida, one former Republican campaign operative worried that the new laws could rile voters of color and turn them out in greater numbers.

Republicans thought that they could rig future elections by making it harder for Democratic-leaning voters to vote, but their voter suppression laws are so broad that they are destroying a mail-in voting system that Republicans have spent decades building.

Older white rural Republican voters are the backbone of the GOP. If even a small percentage of these voters don’t vote, in combination with an increase in Democratic turnout, the result will be a disaster for the Republican Party.

......SNIP"

[mdelaguna]

1. K&r

[Lovie777]

2. Good . ..

[a kennedy]

3. Damn right good.....and 😅 😅 😅

[Phoenix61]

4. The universe has a wonderful sense of irony. nt

[Just_Vote_Dem]

5. Stay home, Republicans!

Be nice and cozy and read a book or something

[rownesheck]

14. Read a book.

That's funny. They don't read.

[aggiesal]

28. MAGA Coloring Book! ...

Think I'm kidding?

https://www.amazon.com/MAGA-COLORING-BOOK-America-Coloring/dp/1081743832

[NickB79]

6. Link please?

[mercuryblues]

7. here ya go

https://cnnpolitics.sbs/2021/09/25/voter-suppression-laws-backfire-and-make-it-harder-for-white-republicans-to-vote/

[NickB79]

8. Thanks!

[Hortensis]

29. Data from Pew, showing this. Thanks.

And,

"Republicans thought that they could rig future elections by making it harder for Democratic-leaning voters to vote, but their voter suppression laws are so broad that they are destroying a mail-in voting system that Republicans have spent decades building.

Older white rural Republican voters are the backbone of the GOP. If even a small percentage of these voters don’t vote, in combination with an increase in Democratic turnout, the result will be a disaster for the Republican Party."

[applegrove]

9. My bad. Sorry.

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/09/25/voter-suppression-laws-backfire-and-make-it-harder-for-white-republicans-to-vote.html

[True Blue American]

11. Why am I Laughing?

[applegrove]

15. Because it is PoliticusUSA?

[True Blue American]

36. No, No

It is because I loved the article! My bad, I did not explain!

[applegrove]

41. Oh thanks.

[Duncanpup]

10. Fantastic

[SWBTATTReg]

12. Idiot republicans, proving again that they have only one agenda, and one agenda only, to

keep taxes low or non-existent for their 1%er donors and that's it. Don't care about anyone else.

[Wounded Bear]

13. Well, mail-in voting would be a huge covenience for those in remote areas...

you know, rural areas where supposedly most of the repub base lives.

Hell, I could have told them that years ago.

[OMGWTF]

22. We should have 100% mail-in voting; the military has used it for centuries.

[True Blue American]

37. I just call

The Election board. They check my record, send me out a ballot. Then when I send it in from the Postoffice I can follow it right to when it is counted. This op is one time I love the net. Other times when it comes to passwords I have to put them in a book manually. They still reject them.

[Hortensis]

30. :) Right. But nice that consequences are now measurable,

and being measured. They'd better hurry up their coup.

[flying_wahini]

16. And I was thinking of all those rural folks who vote after church on Sundays....

[keithbvadu2]

17. Republicans have gotten pretty good at ballot harvesting.

Republicans have gotten pretty good at ballot harvesting.

[True Blue American]

38. Didn't they outlaw ballot harvesting?

They caught a lot of cheaters on that. Having old folks sign their name, then filling it in for them.

[TeamProg]

18. It's a motivator for sure n/t

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

19. They kept thinking that there is a little black book

that has all Republicans names in it and will not be made to follow the same rules as the Democrats. No black book people, just the same screw over.

[NNadir]

20. Especially when the surviving Fox Kool-Aid Covid Survivors are disabled and can't get to the polls.

They shoulda taken the vaccine.

[AllaN01Bear]

21. good . the rs put in sexual harassment into the 1967-68 civil rights act

to try and sink it, but that part backfired on them too. keep shooting yourself in the foot ,rs .






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[moose65]

23. Their ignorance knows no bounds

Here in NC they have spent a decade telling older voters to use vote-by-mail. There was never a peep about fraud in all that time.

In 2016 here in NC the Republicans used mail-in voting more than Democrats, something like 76,000 to 60,000. There were fewer than 200,000 mail-in votes.

In 2020, there were over a million votes cast by mail, and Dems outnumbered Republicans by over 200,000 voters. Suddenly they want to limit mail-in voting, never realizing that it will hurt their own voters.

[True Blue American]

39. This gets funnier

By the minute!

[LiberalFighter]

24. In our county, absentee voting actually benefits the Republican Party more.

And I'm sure it is the same across the country.

The key for Democratic Party is to encourage their supporters to use the same method.

[ShazzieB]

25. Poor, pathetic Republicans.

It would be so much easier for them if they were allowed to simply pass laws forbidding all those pesky black and brown people from voting, like in the good old days. But oh, nooooo, THAT is against the law, so they're forced to look for other ways to keep "those people" from voting, without making it harder for any Republicans to vote.. And that is REALLY HARD! It's all just SOOOOOOOOO unfair!

[AwakeAtLast]

26. This headline made my day!

[Blue Owl]

27. Suck it, fuckos

[Marcuse]

31. GOP policies hurt every race, but they are calculated to hurt African Americans worse.

[BlueIdaho]

32. Beware the law of unintended consequences

No matter how carefully they think they plan these things, they can always blow up in their faces.

[GulfCoast66]

33. This is why I have not piled onto the hundreds of threads about the horrors of these bills.

Mind you, I want mail in voting to be easy for everyone. But old folks benefit the most and a super high percentage of republicans are old. And until Covid they used them more.

I’ve felt they will a wash a worse, hurt republicans most likely.

It’s the installation of partisan review committees with the power to nullify counties votes that are really dangerous.

[LeftInTX]

34. In Texas, Lyle Larson wrote an Op-Ed against the voter suppression bill

He's a moderate. He's the only one who voted against the voter suppression bill.

Even Democrats vote for him, so there's that..........
And he's also retiring and getting away from the crazies.

For much of this year’s long and acrimonious legislative session, Larson has sounded like someone thoroughly fed up with partisan gamesmanship and political pandering.

He has consistently blasted his fellow Republicans for giving short shrift to the state’s most pressing problems — the COVID-19 pandemic and the state’s dysfunctional power grid — while obsessing on culture-war fodder: banning the teaching of critical race theory, preventing transgender athletes from competing in school sports, restricting voter access and blocking local entities from imposing mask mandates to slow the spread of the virus.

In a Thursday op-ed that ran in the San Antonio Report, Larson championed his friend and fellow disaffected Republican, former Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, as “the leader our state needs,” either in the position of governor or lieutenant governor.

Larson has directed much of his ire at the state’s ultimate culture warrior, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who he has described as a “control freak” with an “insatiable desire for power.”
https://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/gilbert_garcia/article/Garcia-Larson-appears-unlikely-to-seek-another-16435001.php

[UTUSN]

35. Bwah!1

[StarfishSaver]

40. Interesting. And unlike the minority voters they're trying to suppress

I'll bet these white rural voters haven't spent decades mobilizing and organizing and figuring out how to overcome obstacles - as we say, to make a way out of no way - and vote like their lives depend on it no matter what, and will just give up and stay home because it's too much trouble.

[Larissa]

42. Poetic justice

In their blood lust to stick it to Dems and minorities/people of color, the Republicans stick it to themselves.

God bless America!

[crimycarny]

43. Human nature to want something more when it's taken away

So many take voting for granted until someone tries to take it away from them. A
The GOP efforts to suppress the vote are waking everyone up to how important voting is.

I’m generalizing here but it seems the privileged have less tolerance for inconvenience than those used to it. We see long lines of voters in poorer communities while more affluent areas easily breeze in. If people who are used to voting being easy suddenly find they have to jump through a few more hoops, I don’t know if they will have the stamina to do so. And with the GOP also decrying mail-in voting, they ultimately discourage their own base from using more convenient methods of voting.

Voter suppression needs to be fought at every turn, but I can see how GOP over reach may backfire on them in the meantime.

[budkin]

44. Easy. It's a numbers game.

It's worth it if it makes it more difficult for more Democrats.

[Missn-Hitch]

45. Back to the drawing board. Ipso facto. Patches to the legislation applied.

Or just straight out tell DeJoy to filter mail based on zip code. All sorts of remedies to dish out. ANYTHING is possible.

Fascist pigs are gonna fascist pig.

[Texin]

46. Not to worry. They'll just jerrymander their way to the win.

[Martin68]

47. Sshadenfreude. Bigly

[DallasNE]

48. These Laws Are Morally And Ethically Wrong

That is why I oppose them. The smoke I ignore.