The Republican Attack on the Right to Vote

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'Outrageous': Biden condemns new Georgia law as a 'blatant attack' on voting rights

President Joe Biden on Friday condemned the sweeping new voting restrictions in Georgia as "outrageous," "un-American" and "Jim Crow in the 21st Century."

"This law, like so many others being pursued by Republicans in statehouses across the country is a blatant attack on the Constitution and good conscience," Biden said in a statement.

In comments to reporters as he departed the White House for the weekend, Biden expounded on his criticism, calling the law an "atrocity" and lambasting a provision that makes it illegal to take food or water to voters in line.

"If you want any indication that it has nothing to do with fairness, nothing to do with decency, they pass a law saying you can't provide water for people standing in line while they're waiting to vote," the president said.

"You don't need anything else to know that this is nothing but punitive, designed to keep people from voting. You can't provide water for people about to vote. Give me a break."

Biden's remarks comes a day after Republican lawmakers pushed through drastic changes to the state's election process that were immediately signed into law by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.

The 98-page law outlaws providing food or water to people waiting in line to vote and adds additional voter ID requirements to mail voters and shortens state runoffs.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called the law "despicable" Thursday night.

"Since 2012—the GA GOP has closed more than 200 polling places. Voters in mostly Black precincts now wait 8X LONGER to vote than voters in mostly white precincts," he wrote in a tweet.

"Now the GOP makes it a crime to give water to people standing in long lines THEY CREATED."
ALSO:

The New Jim Crow Laws Aren’t Just About Suppressing Democratic Voters - They’re also about shoring up the Republican base.
 

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MEANWHILE, TALK IS CHEAP
Georgia Voting Law Prompts Talks of Moving All-Star Game, Pulling Masters From Augusta

"Sweeping changes to Georgia voting laws were signed Thursday, and now two of the biggest national sporting events over the next few months are caught in the crossfire. Those would be the Masters next month in Augusta and Major League Baseball's All-Star Game this July in Atlanta.

The MLB Players Association (MLBPA) executive director Tony Clark said he would "look forward" to discuss moving the Midsummer Classic out of the Peach State.

Trump congratulated Georgia, saying, "They learned from the travesty of the 2020 Presidential Election, which can never be allowed to happen again. Too bad these changes could not have been done sooner.""

[Because, OF COURSE that fkr did]

"... the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), which is a leading Black civil rights group, has urged the PGA to pull the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club next month. He also encouraged golfers to not play the event."


AND, that's not ALL that should be "looked into" regarding boycotts of Georgia, in terms of sports, recreation, entertainment, products originating from Georgia, and the film making industry. Including boycotts and strikes by athletes, entertainers, actors and OTHERS.

Maybe if they all became ACTIVISTS in repudiation of this state's CONTINUED ASSAULT upon minority voters and democracy itself, if their businesses and their income started taking a HIT to their wallets and pocketbooks, MAYBE these fkrs might sober up and STOP TRYING TO PERSECUTE BLACK VOTERS.
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And believe you me, that choice was DELIBERATE:

Kemp Chose a 'Monument to Georgia’s History of Brutal White Supremacy' as a Backdrop When Signing His Voter Suppression Law: Columnist

‘Signed Under the Image of a Notorious Slave Plantation’

The Philadelphia Inquirer‘s columnist Will Bunch went internet sleuthing after a picture of Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp surfaced showing the governor surrounded by a group of white lawmakers, presumably all Republicans as well, signing his voter suppression bill into law one hour after it passed the legislature.

In a Twitter thread, Bunch pointed out that readers should take note of the antebellum-style portrait behind Kemp as he signed the suppression law.

You’ve probably seen this picture of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and his gaggle of white men signing the state’s voter suppression law — the new, new Jim Crow. But there’s a shocking angle to this story that you haven’t heard. Sit down for this one… pic.twitter.com/edHPmyeoiu — Will Bunch Sign Up For My Newsletter (@Will_Bunch) March 26, 2021

ALSO:

Ted Cruz melts down over voting rights bill because people on 'welfare' might vote - Alternet.org
Chris Wallace Grills Graham on Georgia Voting Law: ‘Why on Earth’ Is It Illegal to Give Voters Water?
Georgia voting: Why these slave narratives compiled after the Civil War are more relevant than ever
Watch: Sen. Lindsey Graham Admits Parts of Georgia’s Voter Restrictions Are Ludicrous – Mother Jones

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MEANWHILE, BLOWBACK:

Georgia's 'Jim Crow' voter suppression bill is now law. Here's how Democrats can fight back.

The provisions that make it harder for people to vote and the nonsensical provisions can be overridden by federal legislation. The Constitution specifically gives Congress the power to regulate federal elections: Article I, Section 4 gives it the power to make or alter rules for conducting federal elections. The 14th Amendment and 15th Amendment prevent states from discriminating based on race.

Because so many of these restrictive provisions disproportionally affect minority voters, lawsuits are already being filed challenging the law.


There’s also the chance that this voter suppression law could backfire for Republicans. As we saw in the April primaries, when Republicans in Wisconsin tried to make it harder for people to vote, people don’t like it when they feel their voices are being suppressed. The Wisconsin Republicans faced a backlash from voters, who turned up in massive numbers, viewing the hurdles erected by Republicans as a challenge.

Citizens are not likely to vote for the party that passes mean-spirited and anti-democratic laws. In the words of Cook Political Report editor Dave Wasserman, the Georgia Republicans may have “just handed Democrats their best turnout tool for 2022 & beyond.” After all, when a party outlaws giving water to voters stuck in long lines, what does it say about their values?



Disturbing!” Black Georgia Lawmakers React to Arrest of Colleague Park Cannon
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Do not fly Delta': Olbermann calls for boycott airline over Georgia voter suppression

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And believe you me, that choice was DELIBERATE:
Kemp Chose a 'Monument to Georgia’s History of Brutal White Supremacy' as a Backdrop When Signing His Voter Suppression Law: Columnist

‘Signed Under the Image of a Notorious Slave Plantation’
The Philadelphia Inquirer‘s columnist Will Bunch went internet sleuthing after a picture of Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp surfaced showing the governor surrounded by a group of white lawmakers, presumably all Republicans as well, signing his voter suppression bill into law one hour after it passed the legislature.

In a Twitter thread, Bunch pointed out that readers should take note of the antebellum-style portrait behind Kemp as he signed the suppression law.

You’ve probably seen this picture of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and his gaggle of white men signing the state’s voter suppression law — the new, new Jim Crow. But there’s a shocking angle to this story that you haven’t heard. Sit down for this one… pic.twitter.com/edHPmyeoiu — Will Bunch Sign Up For My Newsletter (@Will_Bunch) March 26, 2021
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It's just all too much for ol' ActionBuddy to deal with anymore. Can I stop the world?... I want to get off.

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PRECISELY. Like I said, it gives them the power to do exactly what Trump wanted to do. Throw out election results they don't like. President Biden called it "Jim Crow in the 21st century." I'd call it Jim Crow on STEROIDS.

Real despicable, underhanded, "third world" banana republic kind of shit.

Biden Says Georgia's New Voting Law Is 'Jim Crow In The 21st Century' | HuffPost

The optics of the Georgia voter suppression bill signing are even worse than they first appeared

Kemp signed Georgia voter-suppression law under a portrait of a brutal Southern plantation

Georgia’s New Voter Suppression Law Is Hit With Its First Lawsuit – Mother Jones


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Sen. Raphael Warnock visits Georgia state Rep. Cannon at jail after arrest: 'She did not deserve this' | TheHill

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Thursday condemned the arrest of Georgia state Rep. Park Cannon (D), telling reporters outside the Fulton County Jail that “she did not deserve this.”

“Today is a very sad day for the state of Georgia,” Warnock told reporters Thursday. The newly elected Georgia senator added that Cannon is a parishioner at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where Warnock was senior pastor. “What we have witnessed today is a very desperate attempt to lock out and squeeze the people out of their own democracy,” he said.

Warnock also compared Cannon's actions to those of the rioters who carried out the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol.

The senator said he “saw a state representative knocking on a door of the governor and she was arrested,” while “we saw a violent, insurrectionist attack on the United States Capitol and police officers died.... I want to know what makes her actions so dangerous.”
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"Warnock also compared Cannon's actions to those of the rioters who carried out the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol." B.C.

So true. But there is more. That is the awakening of the African American desire to vote, come hell or flood!

In this bill it will be a felony to bring food and water to people waiting in line to vote. Will people be allowed to go visit the toilet when the need arises. Standing in line for severql hours will sooner or later result in an ever pressing need to use the toilet.

Will people standing in line loose their place in line if they go visit the toilet?

What is happening here is that the per capita number of voting machines will be much less in cities and suburbs that tend to vote Democratic than in rural Georgia with a better ratio of per capita voting machines in rural Georgia.

The Republican precincts will have a short, perhaps 15 minute wait times while precincts that tend to vote Democratic will have a nine hour wait to vote.

This will be deliberately staged to happen. This is no different than the tests given to voters pre to 1965.

African Americans were required to identify all the rivers, cities, counties of the land touching the Mississippi River.

Whites had to name the first US president to be declared able to vote in a particular election. George Washington, just two words for white people while African Americans had to name all the cities along the Mississippi River or other such information to vote.

This is an out rage! Every African American should stand in line with water jug and sack lunch and stand as long as it takes to vote.

Then vote those the Republicans in the Georgia legislature out of office.

It is time for the 2021' s Martin Luther King, John Lewis, and Rosa Parks to step up and take the mantle these three people held and take the fight onward in 2021.

This comes from a white Democrat who can see when democracy is being tossed for an oligarchy of white Republicans.

This is a day when everyone should be African American and toss this attempt to destroy democracy back for at least 50 years.

I thought this battle had been won. I suspect that some thought that with the leaders from 1960s were now dead, the white supremacists could come out from hiding and make an attempt to destroy American democracy.

We must stand together and make sure that the goal of the Republicans in Georgia to steal elections do not win.

Blacks, whites and all in between must get off our good intentions and get on with stopping this attempt to steal elections here in the US.

Freddie is pissed! A felony for bringing food and water to those waiting in line to vote when they have been standing there now for several hours!

People should not have to wear diapers to vote in an election because they have to stand there for 9 or more hours to vote! No one should be expected to hold it that long!!

There is a point out there beyond the official voting area. Food and water can be given to people before they get in line to vote!

Surely, the US Supreme Court is seeing this mockery of constitutional law unfolding day by day in real time on the TV news! Surely in the end, they will rule on the side of constitutional law!
 
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Republicans are peddling ‘naked acts of voter suppression': Former GOP chairman - Raw Story

Former Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele and former GOP Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) joined forces to pen an op-ed for The Bulwark outing their party for attempting to make voting more difficult to win future elections.

They recalled that in the 1960 election, with John F. Kennedy vs. Richard Nixon, participation was at 64 percent, the highest in 50 years. Since then, however, more people stayed home than voted. Voter turnout has increased as the respective parties continue "Get Out The Vote" campaigns, but nothing compared to the 62 percent participation in 2020.

"And even as turnout soared last year, the election was conducted smoothly and securely," the Republicans wrote. "This should have been cause for celebration, regardless of party allegiance.

Instead, GOP leaders across the country have leveled baseless accusations of election fraud—and now cite those claims to justify a vast rollback of Americans' voting rights."
That's REPUBLICANS condemning this Jim Crow bullshit. Nevertheless, listen to THIS racist mfkr:

Sean Hannity calls for voter suppression in 5 more states: 'This has nothing to do with race' - Raw Story

MEANWHILE:

Mitch McConnell once talked about the filibuster’s ‘racial history’ that he now supports - Raw Story

You knew McConnell was a hypocritical historical revisionist, but here's more proof


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Black Georgia legislator arrested for knocking on governor's door returns to work, joined by MLK III
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Sorry, I can't stand to "listen to THIS racist mfkr" anymore, nor to any of his asshole FAUX News cohorts, especially what's-his-name... the really dumb one with the bowtie, that I always imagine with a target painted on his forehead.

I suppose that they will keep making the "news" by creating fake news, and I will have to pay some attention to reading about that, but, I have better things to do with my time than to listen their lies
out loud.

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Obama congratulates MLB for 'taking a stand' against Georgia election law as Trump calls for boycott - CNNPolitics

Obama on Saturday congratulated the league "for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights for all citizens," following MLB's Friday announcement. The Democrat's tweeted support of the move struck a starkly different tone from his Republican successor's statement late Friday that called for a boycott of baseball and all of the "woke companies that are interfering with Free and Fair Elections."

RIGHT, con-man. "Free and fair" as in Republicans CRIMINALIZING giving water to Black voters whose lines are 4-8 times longer than in non-minority precincts because the vote suppressing b----------------ds closed up their polling places.

Trump might have 'found' the votes he needed to win Georgia under state's new election law

ALSO:

Laura Ingraham warns Coca-Cola over stand against Georgia voting law: 'Patriots will choose another beverage' | MEAWW

Fk Trump AND Ingraham... MEANWHILE:

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar praises MLB yanking the All-Star Game: 'This means something to everybody'

As Georgia's voter suppression law drains state revenues, GOP goes to war baseball, hotdogs, and apple pie

Amazon says it supports expanding voting rights but it gave $500,000 to lawmakers who oppose those efforts


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WGA Hints At Repercussions For Georgia Film Industry Over Voting Law – Deadline
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And Georgia isn't the ONLY place where Republicans are trying to RIG THE FKN VOTE in their favor. In fact:


Lawmakers in 47 states have introduced bills that would make it harder to vote. See them all here
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Graphics for map above didn't transfer: but here's the legend: light yellow: 1-5 bills, dark yellow: 6-10 bills, light orange: 11-15 bills, dark orange 16-20 bills, light brown 21-25 bills, and in TEXAS, 49 VOTER SUPPRESSION BILLS

SOURCE: Voting Laws Roundup: March 2021

Speaking of TEXAS:

Dell, American Airlines, AT&T weigh in on restrictive voting bills in Texas - ABC News

Amid a growing national discourse over ballot access, several major companies voiced concerns -- and in some cases, outright objections -- over bills that voting rights advocates say would make it harder to vote in Texas.

Dell and American Airlines specifically called out Texas Senate Bill 7 and its version in the House, House Bill 6, while AT&T took a broader look at the complexity of elections, the responsibility of lawmakers, and a broader "responsibility to engage."

State Senate Republicans advanced SB7 in the early hours of Thursday morning. The legislation proposes changing existing voting rules, including shortening early voting hours and banning drive-through voting, which was popular among heavily populated, diverse areas when voters cast ballots in November.


The Senate bill also prohibits election officials from sending out mail voting applications to voters if they did not individually request the forms, and requires disabled voters to provide specific proof of disability from the federal government or a physician.
AND:

Amy Schumer backs voting rights bill: 'The For the People Act is awesome, unless you hate democracy' | TheHill

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Video shows Texas GOP official calling for ‘army’ of poll watchers in Black and Latino areas

A filmed presentation from a Republican official in Texas and obtained by a voting rights advocacy group reveals a push for an “army” of poll watchers in the greater Houston area “where the fraud is occurring”.

The 49-minute video published by Common Cause Texas shows a map of Harris County voting precincts, as a voice tells supporters to muster “the confidence and courage to come down here” as part of an “election integrity brigade” to combat alleged voter fraud, pointing to areas in Houston that include large Black and Latino populations.

Release of the video, which was created in March, follows passage of a sweeping bill to restrict ballot access by cutting early voting hours and banning drive-through voting sites that proved popular in 2020 elections for one of the largest counties in the US.

Fact-checking Texas Republican's claims around state voting laws - CNNPolitics

The Texas Senate passed new voting legislation on April 1. As the bill goes through the state House, corporations like Dell Technologies and American Airlines -- both based in Texas -- have started advocating against it, arguing that it restricts voter access.

To justify many of the changes in the law, Texas Republicans are pointing to 2020 election practices in Harris County, which includes Houston, arguing that the county went far beyond the Texas Election Code in allowing drive-thru voting, sending out mail-in ballot applications and allowing voters to register through P.O. box addresses.

While Harris County did come under scrutiny for expanding voting access in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, a bipartisan, multiagency election security task force found no cases of voter fraud in the county for the 2020 election.
MEANWHILE:

Republicans blasted for ‘un-American’ voter suppression efforts in Montana - Raw Story

Republican state lawmakers push new criminal penalties for election activities - CNNPolitics
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