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Republican Voter Suppression Efforts

Election security is fine, but making voting difficult and unpleasant for individuals is an absurdly inefficient way to address it. In person voting fraud is quite rare, which makes sense if you think for a minute about why someone would risk an felony charge and or/deportation (in case you are of the "illegal aliens are voting" mindset) to almost certainly not swing an election. Cost/benefit analysis does not favor that course of action.

What someone might do and has done is try to affect a large number of votes, and it helps if that someone is a foreign agent who doesn't have to face our justice system. To that end, care to say why McConnell and republicans blocked this security bill?

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/482569-senate-gop-blocks-three-election-security-bills
 
Three of the last four Presidents have been elected by margins that changed hands after the polls have closed but sure.

Good grief.

We’re supposed to quit counting when the voting stops…?

That would be a solution to the problem of people voting.

It is pretty clear that requiring photo id will increase the counting speed.


Someone needs to let Arizona Republicans know it’s too late to be counting.
 
Election security is fine, but making voting difficult and unpleasant for individuals is an absurdly inefficient way to address it. In person voting fraud is quite rare, which makes sense if you think for a minute about why someone would risk an felony charge and or/deportation (in case you are of the "illegal aliens are voting" mindset) to almost certainly not swing an election. Cost/benefit analysis does not favor that course of action.

What someone might do and has done is try to affect a large number of votes, and it helps if that someone is a foreign agent who doesn't have to face our justice system. To that end, care to say why McConnell and republicans blocked this security bill?

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/482569-senate-gop-blocks-three-election-security-bills


Because Republican leadership isn’t primarily interested in secure and fair elections…?
 
Observers report ballots and laptop computers have been left unattended in Arizona recount, according to secretary of state


Ballots have been left unattended on counting tables.

Laptop computers sit abandoned, at times — open, unlocked and unmonitored.

Procedures are constantly shifting, with untrained workers using different rules to count ballots.

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) on Wednesday sent a letter outlining a string of problems that she said observers from her office have witnessed at a Republican-led recount of the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona’s largest county.

In the six-page letter, Hobbs wrote that elections are “governed by a complex framework of laws and procedures designed to ensure accuracy, security, and transparency” but that the procedures governing the ongoing recount in Phoenix “ensure none of those things.”

Former Arizona secretary of state Ken Bennett (R), who is acting as a spokesman for the audit, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But the audit’s Twitter account, @ArizonaAudit, tweeted that Hobbs’s allegations were “baseless claimes [sic].”

“The audit continues!” read the tweet.

On Wednesday, a top official in the Justice Department’s civil rights division wrote in a letter to the state Senate president that information reviewed by the department “raises concerns,” asking that the Arizona Senate provide information to ensure federal laws were not being violated. She wrote that reports suggested that ballots were “not being adequately safeguarded by contractors at an insecure facility, and are at risk of being lost, stolen, altered, compromised or destroyed.”

The recount of Maricopa County’s nearly 2.1 million ballots was ordered by the GOP-led state Senate, despite the fact that county officials, as well as state and federal judges, found no merit to claims that the vote was tainted by fraud or other problems.

Republicans hired a Florida-based private contractor called Cyber Ninjas, whose chief executive has echoed former president Donald Trump’s false allegations of fraud, to handle the recount….



Republicans REALLY care about voting security and integrity.
 
It’s as if disfranchisement is written into constitutions.
 
Republicans have had to work so f’ing hard to suppress their sense of shame…it’s dead.
 
If there was actually liberal media, they’d report about how all Republicans want to do is kill their wives to cast another vote for Trump.

"Just because I wanted Trump to win," he allegedly said, per a transcript of the conversation included in the affidavit. "I just thought, give him another vote."
 
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