GOP States Are Shredding Voting Rights and Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema Are Now Complicit
by Ari Berman
Introduction:
caltrek's comment: Worse still, and not even mentioned in the Mother Jones article, are the ways in which state legislators are maneuvering to make it easier for themselves to overrule voter results should they not go their way. Trump's pathetic attempts in this regard in the last election as being a bit of a dry run for that scenario.(Mother Jones) For the fifth time during the last year, Senate Republicans blocked Democrats on Wednesday from passing sweeping legislation that would roll back GOP efforts to make it harder to vote.
Their justification: there is no GOP effort to make it harder to vote.
“The big lie on the other side is that state legislatures controlled by Republicans are busily at work trying to make it difficult for people to vote,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said this week.
That, of course, is exactly what Republicans have been doing.
Nineteen states passed 34 new laws in 2021 reducing voting access, according to the Brennan Center, which catalogued at least 16 different ways Republicans have sought to restrict voting rights, including making it more difficult to vote by mail and easier to remove voters from the rolls, cutting the number of early voting days, erecting new barriers to voter registration, and reducing the number of polling places