Here are some of the GOP's most brazen attacks on voting rights and elections

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Here are some of the most egregious efforts by Republicans over the past year to sabotage fair elections in one convenient article:

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Here are some of the GOP's most brazen attacks on voting rights and elections
The Republican playbook: gerrymander, suppress, subvert.
10:01 AM · Feb 16, 2022

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/guide-republican-attacks-on-voting-rights-and-elections-gerrymandering-suppression-subversion/


Ahead of the midterms, Republicans have launched a full-scale assault on the election system. Fueled by the Big Lie, this attack relies upon a multi-pronged strategy of gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the takeover of election positions by ideologues who allege that the 2020 election was stolen. As I write in “The Coming Coup,” Georgia, where Trump and his allies battled fiercely to overturn the election results, is once again at the center of the drama. Republicans there have drawn Democrats out of their districts, passed laws making it harder to vote, and sought to consolidate control over how elections are run and votes are counted. What’s happening in Georgia is part of a national strategy playing out across the country. Here are some of the most egregious efforts by Republicans over the past year to sabotage fair elections.

Arizona

Republicans stripped Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs of the power to defend state election laws and transferred that authority to the Republican attorney general—but only through the 2022 election, in case the partisan composition of the offices is reversed after that.

Colorado

Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters allowed unauthorized individuals to copy hard drive images of election software, resulting in this information being shared publicly by election conspiracy theorists. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold called this an “unprecedented security breach.”

Florida

Mimicking Georgia, Republicans banned giving food and water to voters in line, along with making it harder to vote by mail—after more Democrats than Republicans did so for the first time in the state’s recent history. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill in May during a Fox & Friends exclusive; all other media outlets were barred from the event.

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