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GOP lawmakers seek tougher voting rules after record turnout

Author:     ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and ACACIA CORONADO
Source:     Associated Press
Publication Date:     January 31, 2021
 Link: GOP lawmakers seek tougher voting rules after record turnout
Stephan:   Almost every day I see attempts by Republican legislators in Red states to impose new voter suppression legislation to keep non-Whites from voting. The Republicans realize they are a shrinking minority party and the only way they are going to be able to hold on to power is by rigging the system. That's a problem but a secondary one. The primary problem is that the voters in Red value states support what they are doing. The percentage of Americans who are White supremacy racists is appalling and perhaps the biggest crisis in the American political system.
Credit: Associated Press

AUSTIN, TEXAS — Republican lawmakers in statehouses across the country are moving swiftly to attack some of the voting methods that fueled the highest turnout for a presidential election in 50 years.

Although most legislative sessions are just getting underway, the Brennan Center for Justice, a public policy institute, has already tallied more than 100 bills in 28 states meant to restrict voting access. More than a third of those proposals are aimed at limiting mail voting, while other bills seek to strengthen voter ID requirements and registration processes, as well as allow for more aggressive means to remove people from voter rolls.

“Unfortunately, we are seeing some politicians who want to manipulate the rules of the game so that some people can participate and some can’t,” said Myrna Pérez, director of the voting rights and elections program at the Brennan Center.

The proposals are advancing not only in Texas and other traditional red states but also in such places as Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania that supported Donald Trump four years ago, only to flip for Joe […]

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