Democrats' Failure to Effectively Champion Voting Rights May Cost Them in 2022

[Galraedia]

For the past year, since the 2020 presidential election, the Republican Party has waged war on the democratic process. It has initiated phony “audits” of swing-state election results that former President Donald Trump falsely claimed were rigged against him. State GOP parties have purged Trump critics, including fellow Republicans, from positions of power. And in Georgia and elsewhere, state legislators have passed laws that make it easier for the governing party to purge election officials who don’t bend to partisan claims of fraud.

Ultimately, however, even with laws making it easier to remove low-level election officials, each state’s secretary of state still has the most say over how elections and post-election controversies are conducted in their jurisdiction. This is why the Trumpified GOP has also been steadily ratcheting up pressure on higher-ranking officials.

Recently, Trump has been throwing his political weight behind a slew of primary challenges designed to weed out all remaining opposition within the Republican party to his claims that he can only lose an election if his opponents rig the vote count. Trump is, for example, pushing to oust Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger, who had the temerity to push back against Trump’s demands that he “find” enough pro-Trump votes to deliver the Peach State to him in 2020.

And in one state after another, GOP legislators have passed, and governors have signed, laws intended to massively roll back access to the ballot box, and make it ever more difficult for poor and non-white residents to vote. Legislators have proposed draconian restrictions in 43 states this year, in an effort to roll back early voting, to impose onerous voter ID requirements, and to limit actions such as the Black church–led “Souls to the Polls” walks on the Sunday before Election Day in many states throughout the South in particular. As of July at least 17 states had signed such restrictions into law, with more states likely to follow suit.

Read more: https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-failure-to-effectively-champion-voting-rights-may-cost-them-in-2022/

[PortTack]

1. President Biden has said to Schumer he wants a "way" around the filibuster to pass voting rights

I suppose that means a carve out like turtle did for the justices. Amy Klobuchar says the senate is not done with voting rights

Let’s put some faith in our leaders!

[mcar]

2. More doom and gloom

No surprise it's from Truthout.

[Budi]

3. Indeed. Note the Headline. You know it's from Truthout.

I'm surpirsed their headline wasn't emphasized with flashing red & yellow signage.

Democrats' Failure to Effectively Champion Voting Rights


This could have been a header for FOX or RT.

Democrats' Failure!!

Truthout is so near the very end of MediaBias' spectrum, it's about to drop off the edge of the left/right arrow into the red abyss.

This is basically written with the intent to sabatoge rather than inform.
Ya. It's a RW talking point.