Voter Suppression

Georgia is just latest

Welcome back to the newsletter. My apologies for not having as much time as I’d like to devote to the newsletter.

Since the Republican/Authoritarian party remains in shambles, they have come up with new ways to attempt to rig elections in their favor, including the passage of a massive voter suppression law that will likely become a template for the Authoritarians nationwide. The law does the following it makes it a crime to provide beverages to those in line waiting to vote. It shortens the period to request an absentee ballot it prohibits government agencies from sending absentee ballot applications to voters. It requires that drop boxes are only available at early vote locations and are only accessible during voting hours. When it comes to runoff elections, it mandates that they must occur 28 days after general elections. It replaces state board of elections chairs with one’s hand-picked by lawmakers not selected by voters. Governor Kemp signed into law, who narrowly lost the previous election to Stacy Abrams.

The Georgia law will be the template as we advance for the party that cannot win elections legitimately. Their law will end up before the Supreme Court, and it will likely be upheld since the Republican Party controls the Court, the only way to prevent the Court from allowing the law to stand may be court expansion. Court Expansion is for another day. This law hurts poor voters, and it hurts voters who overwhelmingly would vote for Democrats.

We have to be willing to look at this from the lens that the Democrats won the state of Georgia, they won the two Senate seats in the runoffs, and now Republicans/Authoritarians want to make it more difficult for people to vote.