Women are voting -- and the GOP is scared

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Women are registering in droves to vote after the Roe overturn. In response, Republicans are using Trump's anti-democratic tactics, including the Big Lie, to prevent voters from saving their own basic rights.

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Women are voting — and the GOP is scared
Since January 6, anti-democratic organizing has only grown more intense and effective. Abortion is the new target
10:42 AM · Aug 22, 2022

https://www.salon.com/2022/08/22/pink-wave-women-rise-up-for-reproductive-rights--and-big-lie-supporters-scramble-to-stop-them/

The ballot referendum on abortion rights in Kansas wasn't just a test of public attitudes about reproductive rights — it was a test of democracy.

The Republican organizers behind the bill were no doubt aware of the robust polling that shows that strong majorities of Americans support abortion rights, and thus did everything in their power to make sure the general public did not turn out to vote on the question of banning abortion in the state. So they scheduled the ballot initiative during an August primary election, when few Democrats turn out to vote, even though other ballot initiatives are scheduled for November's election. They made the language of the ballot initiative confusing, so pro-choice people might accidentally vote for the ban. And they blanketed the airwaves with misleading ads meant to trick pro-choice voters into voting for the ban.

None of it worked.

Pro-choice activists in the state worked tirelessly to register and turn out voters, as well as educate them on how to vote down the abortion ban, despite the confusing wording. Indeed, the vote wasn't even close, with nearly 60% of voters giving the abortion ban a thumbs down. A huge chunk of voters were independents who didn't even vote in the primary races, only showing up to weigh in on the ballot referendum.

But rather than accept this democratic outcome, conservatives are hardening even more against democracy.

What began with Republicans hand-waving away the election as somehow not a true reflection of voter desires, soon became conservatives reskinning Donald Trump's Big Lie, that the 2020 election was "rigged" against him, to argue that something fishy must have happened in order for Kansas result to occur. They forced a recount of the abortion vote. Recounts, which are expensive and time-consuming, tend to occur only when an election is close. The abortion ban, however, lost by an 18-point margin, so there was zero chance that a recount would change things. Still, as the Kansas City Star reports, the recount was authorized at the request of Melissa Leavitt, a Big Lie advocate who pushed Trump's conspiracy theories to the Kansas state legislature in 2020. Along with Mark Gietzen, a hardline opponent of reproductive rights, they raised nearly $120,000 for the recount. Unsurprisingly, it did nothing to change the outcome. Yet Leavitt and Gietzen are using the recount effort as the foundation for what appears to be a larger push to harass anyone who dared vote against the abortion ban in the state.

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[Moostache]

1. In 2022, if you are a woman and older than 18...

It is your absolute obligation to vote, to drag your friends with you to vote and to maintain your agency via the ballot box to reverse the perversion of the SCOTUS and its cult-like enablers.

I cannot understand ANY woman that votes republican beyond the Stepford Wives of the world like my sister who votes how she is told to vote and thinks what she is told to think and dresses the way her husband (and his perverted friends) expect a wife to dress. Its all sickening and depraved.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Women of the US of A, save us! Please!

[keithbvadu2]

3. GOP says to read your Bible

[lindysalsagal]

4. This was inevitable, as they try to out-fascist each other.

We are by definition a liberal country, and they've known they're losing for decades. This is what insular, stupid people think is a solution to losing.

WRONG!!!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Are you ready for ROEVEMBER?

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[Demovictory9]

6. I heard the fear in a radio rightwingers voice this morning. He tried to equate male violence

with women supporting transgenders and abortion. "think women will do better at governing. Not one iota". LOL. This is from the very stupid Dennis Prager

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Dem's messaging

So far it's been on point, women's body autonomy is on the ballot in every single race, not just the ones where it's literally a ballot initiative.

Kansas showed we can beat the polls by 20 points. And Kansas is deep red. If we can beat the polls by 5 points across the country is will mean expanding the lead in the Senate and keeping the House. Then Biden will have 2 full more years to put this country right.

[calimary]

8. This!

VOTE, Dammit!

[no_hypocrisy]

9. What'cha gonna do about that pesky 19th Amendment, Mitch?

Oh, I know!

Have that stellar vote company recount the 1920 votes that got it into the Constitution.

[lambchopp59]

10. Sometimes my medication causes hallucinations and confusion

But none of them convince me of any of the deplorable's fascist shit.

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I'm encouraging everyone I know to GOTV and do it blue.
I only know of one deplorable who wouldn't budge after Roe but... Two other former Trumpers, both young women, have converted since Roe overturn and now the one deplorable is rethinking pillow dude's crap in light of, and outcome of Trump's document seizure.
Go, DOJ, slap that creep down.