September 25, 2023

The GOP attack on voting

 Hartmann Report - The Republican attacks on fact-checkers come as increasing numbers of Americans reject Republican policies on everything from gutting Social Security to banning abortion to making it harder for city-dwellers to vote. The new Trumpy GOP has decided that abandoning that whole pesky idea of democracy itself is the way to go.

We see this in Ohio, where the Republican Secretary of State has re-written the description of an abortion-rights ballot measure to confuse voters after losing an attempt to prevent it from showing up on the ballot altogether failed.

We also see it in:

— Alabama, ignoring the US Supreme Court’s order to strip out the white supremacy from their electoral maps.
— North Carolina, where Republicans flipped their Supreme Court to overrule its own previous decision to prevent racial gerrymanders benefiting Republicans.
— Wisconsin where Republicans are trying to impeach a Democratic Supreme Court justice because she opposes their gerrymandered maps.
—  Ohio’s gerrymandering, with Republicans ignoring their own GOP-controlled Supreme Court.
— Florida, where DeSantis and Republicans passed a permitless gun-carry bill opposed by 77 percent of Floridians and now allow the state to take trans kids away from their families.
— Tennessee, where Republicans kicked three Democrats out of office for daring to fight for abortion and civil rights.
— Red states across the country that have passed laws blocking tens of millions of mostly-city-dwelling American citizens from voting and continue to purge other tens of millions from the voter rolls just before elections.

 

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