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They've admitted time and time again that they want fewer people voting because that helps their chances.
Additionally, they know the demographics that are least likely to vote for them so they target their opposition based on race and geography.
Same as it ever was.
"I don’t want everybody to vote,” the influential conservative activist Paul Weyrich told a gathering of evangelical leaders in 1980. “As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”
Because they don't want to stop voter fraud, that's how they win. What they want to stop is legitimate votes from the opposition. The tide is turning against them and they can't win just by cheating anymore.
That's also what makes the next election so scary. If they don't win next time the party will likely die over the next decade or so. Their only hope is to get in power and never let go of it.
The Republican party is a wounded, cornered animal. But people tend to forget that wounded animals backed into a corner are extremely dangerous. And if we let our guard down before it's dead we're done for.
In that case, I think there is a better term for what they are doing.
Anyway attacking voting is one prong of their broad, long-running strategy to get and stay in power. Claiming fraud is an excuse to reboot Jim Crow laws. It meshes well with gerrymandering, closing polling locations, purging voter registration records, and doing whatever else to target Democratic voters.
Basically, "If you lose in a fair fight, cheat."
The white people method
Everyone better be checking their voter registration status constantly, especially if they're in a red state, because these fuckers will have no qualms about kicking you off the rolls and then arresting you when you try to vote.
Whatever happened to "No taxation without representation"?
Still applies but only for rich white people.
Same as it ever was...
This is where you shoot me in the back of the head and remove me from this hell ride right?
Sorry...no early withdrawal. You're in it for the long haul...
Hence no representation for Washington DC, among others.
meanwhile, crackdowns on actual voter and election fraud overwhelmingly 'targets' republicans.
Shocked! Shocked I am to find voter suppression from the party that publicly admitted they couldn't win without it!
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Pikachu shocked face.
Yeah. Let’s check something real quick. Republicans, who were elected in blue states or areas. Were they legitimately elected or did dems … steal the election to put those republicans in?
I’ll wait…
Your question is much too sophisticated for conservatives to understand it, let alone engage it.
It is by design. No wonder all the actual voter fraud is committed by republicans by a large margin
As a perceptibly in-group looking person in a place where I'm confident in my registration and rights, how can I help?
In other news: sometimes it rains
This is the best summary I could come up with:
All of the convictions occurred in Florida, Texas and Ohio, while units in Virginia, Georgia and Arkansas failed to obtain a single guilty verdict, despite allocating dozens of staffers and millions of dollars to ferret out voter fraud.
The Post created the first comprehensive look at the work of election integrity units that were rolled out or ramped up after 2020 by compiling a database of nearly every prosecution — 136 in total — that the divisions pursued in Florida, Texas, Georgia, Virginia, Ohio and Arkansas.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement that The Post was “promoting a false narrative” because it was unable to determine the race or political affiliation for about half the prosecutions in his state.
The Post was able to compile a nearly complete list of prosecutions in six states through filing public records requests with the units, interviewing officials, scouring news releases and media reports, and consulting a database of voter-fraud convictions maintained by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
Last year, a jury acquitted former Edinburg mayor Richard Molina, who is a Latino Democrat, of a scheme to orchestrate voter fraud in 2017 in a case that originated with Paxton’s office.
Hart, a White man and convicted sex offender from Tampa, said he was at the DMV in March 2020, when a worker hired by the local county asked him if he wanted to register to vote.
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