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In reply to the discussion: I'm about to become wildly unpopular ... [View all]uponit7771
(92,139 posts)If you have an answer to the anti access and nullification laws the GQP is implementing I'd love to hear it.
Again, if you were a woman in 1900 you COULD NOT vote that's not something to be organized around laws have to be changed.
There was no GOTV for women in 1900s, it was useless
Lets take a recent GA measure that is an anti access measure like shortening the time to vote by mail.
https://www.salon.com/2021/12/01/what-suppression-looks-like-rejected-ballot-requests-up-400-after-new-georgia-voting-law/#:~:text=The%20new%20Georgia%20law%2C%20SB,information%20under%20the%20new%20law.
That's anti access because the GA measure TOOK AWAY time to vote and increased the number of ballots that were thrown out and the GA gov under communicated the changes to the community.
Lets looks at the anti access law in Texas via voter ID
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/20/1074296368/why-texas-election-officials-are-rejecting-hundreds-of-vote-by-mail-applications#:~:text=The%20problem%20is%20this%3A%20A%20lot%20of%20people%20don%27t%20remember%20what%20form%20of%20ID%20they%20put%20on%20their%20registration.%20That%27s%20especially%20true%20if%20they%20registered%20to%20vote%20decades%20ago.
The GQP understand people CAN NOT vote in these cases and brute forcing mail ballots is only going to increase the QUANTY (not proporation) of votes that are rejected.
The problem faced is bigger than just voter ID seeing the GQP is also taking away drop boxes and voting machines.
These measures have been done in other countries to a HIGH EFFECT for those who want to stay in power.
We need answers in the US, not just "stay positive" that minimizes what the GQP is doing in their ongoing coup