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The GOP Attacks the Right to Vote
America saw record voter turnout in 2020, and now the Republican Party is working overtime to ensure that never happens again. The GOP is cashing in on their decades long disinformation campaign of false claims of ballot harvesting and election fraud to justify the need for tighter voting restrictions.
According to the Brennan Center, Republican lawmakers in 45 states have proposed at least 253 new laws to make voting harder. The proposed bills take aim at mail-in voting, seek to remove automatic and election day-voter registration, limit early voting, and in some cases remove weekend voting. Some of these proposals will have a disproportionate effect on minority voters.
In Georgia, for example, Black voters make up one-third of the state’s population and overwhelmingly vote Democratic. Long wait times to vote has led to vote suppression, as some voters in minority communities were forced to wait for up to 10 hours to cast a ballot. Now, Republicans in the Georgia state legislature are taking voter suppression a step further and trying to remove Sundays from early voting. This would eliminate “Souls to the Polls,” a mobilization effort to get Black voters to cast their ballots after church on Sundays.
A majority of these vote-restricting bills have been filed in key battleground states such as Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, where…
