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Republican Voter Suppression Efforts

Haha, I started thinking jh when he started with the #jokes.

JOKES are like fingerprints. Especially bad jokes.
 
Yeah, he didn't take the "Heller was a terrible decision" bait a couple weeks ago so I'm not convinced about the Junebug relation. I really wish posters would pick a name and stick with it.

Boy isn’t that the truth. I am totally lost with screen name changes.
 
He's not denying that he's jhmd, but he also didn't deny that he was junebug. That move in and of itself seems more like jhmd, but you all know him better than me.
 
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You know, some people really don't give a shit about voting, regardless of whether or not they have an ID.
 
Republicans may well be shooting themselves in the foot with these voter suppression bills.

For example:
In previous elections, constituencies that have generally supported Democrats in recent years, including younger voters and members of racial minority groups, have tended to use postal ballots less frequently than do Republican-leaning constituencies, including older, white, and military voters. And many of the particular restrictions Republicans have in mind will bear especially hard on their expected voters.

For example, the new Georgia law requires those voting by mail to include some form of proof of identity, such as a photocopy of a driver’s license or a utility bill. If you work in an office park in the increasingly Democratic suburbs of Atlanta, making a photocopy is easy. A machine is probably just down the hall. If you are tech savvy, you’ll scan the license on your smartphone and print a copy. But if you live on the edge of a conservative small town in rural Georgia, or if you are unfamiliar with computers, making a photocopy or scanning and printing can be complicated. Obtaining an affidavit may prove even more daunting.

You might assume that Georgia Republicans have absorbed such negative information, balanced it, and coldly calculated that the trade is worth it: They may lose some of their older, poorer, or sicker rural voters, but if they can thwart a larger number of Black or young voters, they will emerge ahead.

But in the Trump and post-Trump era, local Republican power holders have again and again demonstrated that they are not good risk assessors. They refuse to acknowledge awkward truths. They believe their own inflammatory propaganda. The result is that they make self-harming decisions based on inaccurate information.
 
“Arizona Republicans propose to reduce the number of days for early voting. They want to purge voter rolls of people who missed the previous election. They want to cut off mail-in balloting five days before Election Day. And they want to require that affidavits of identity accompany any ballot that is mailed in.”

Arizona Republican purging voter rolls of people who didn’t vote in an election in which Republicans lost for President and Senate. Purging voter rolls after an election their side lost is a special kind of desperate and foolish.
 
Same. When I got married in 1991, Bob and Elisabeth Dole were at my wedding. (my father in law worked for Dole). What has happened to the Republican party is a total shame.

Hey, Bob and Liddy were at my cousin's wedding too. As was Erskine Bowles. And the groom's brothers wore the Dumb and Dumber tuxedos and then got into a fistfight while I was in the bathroom because one kneecapped the other while he was taking a piss. Opened a real nasty gash above his left eye when he fell and hit the urinal. It was a swell party.
 

I can't wait for when (and at this point it's when, not if) one of these state GOPs loses a legitimate election with no evidence of vote fraud and then uses these new laws to overturn said election and just install the Republican candidate(s) anyway. There will be hell to pay and it will get very ugly, but I'm sure the state GOP will just blame whatever mass protests, violence, and corporate boycotts occur on those evil socialist LibDems. Watching Trump-appointed federal judges uphold such laws and actions and listening to GOP talking heads like Chris Christie and Hugh Hewitt and Rich Lowry defend such nonsense will be the icing on the cake.
 
Well we had a test run for that already and the courts actually did their job by not buying any GOP evidence of fraud.
 
Well we had a test run for that already and the courts actually did their job by not buying any GOP evidence of fraud.

So, the GOP changed the rules. This Georgia law basically looked at the 2020 election and said “what would it have taken for Trump to win?...ok, let’s make that the law now.” The GOP won’t need to prove fraud next time because they are going to stop all the votes they don’t like from being cast in the first place.
 
Jay Bookman: GOP tries to 'cancel' corporations


...In addition, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a man who has long championed the idea that corporations should have the same rights as human beings to participate in politics, is now telling those same corporations to shut up but keep the financial donations flowing, threatening “serious consequences” if they do not.

“My warning, if you will, to corporate America is to stay out of politics,” McConnell said last week.

That’s pretty hilarious. For generations now, the partnership between corporate America and the Republican Party has been considered unshakable, and McConnell has been at the center of it. The fact that the alliance is now failing, that this week even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced its endorsement of 23 Democratic House members for re-election, offers proof of how radical and out of the mainstream the modern Republican Party has become.

The race-baiting, the utter disdain for truth, the embrace of violence as an implied if not actual source of political leverage, the attacks on elections, the erratic governance and rejection of science — much of corporate America wants nothing to do with any of it. Corporate leaders know that a diverse America is both their customer base and their employee base, their source of future profits and stability, and when forced to take sides, Republicans are making that choice easy for them.
 
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