The Count: Inside Trump's Plot To Steal The Election #1
Welcome to the first edition of The Count newsletter from The Appeal.
Launched alongside our new daily show The Count, we’re focusing on what happens in the scenario that the 2020 presidential race will be too close to call on election night, that President Donald Trump makes good on his promise to not accept the election results—and what we can do in the 77 days between election day and the inauguration to uphold our democracy.
Our new show and newsletter will help you prepare, track Republicans’ efforts to steal the election, and share what each of us can and must do to protect the will of the people.
Watch our first episode here.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=348182536502255
REPUBLICANS HAVE A HISTORY OF CHEATING
Republicans are masters of voter suppression, having spent decades restricting the vote and voting power of those who tend to vote Democratic. A small sampling of their nefarious efforts:
Since 2013, states across the South have closed more than 1,200 polling sites; more than half of those lost were in Texas and seven counties in Georgia have been left with only a single polling location.
Between 2011 and 2016, Ohio purged more than 2 million voters from its rolls, with Black voters twice as likely to be removed compared to white voters, while in one night in 2017 Georgia purged 500,000 voters.
In 2016, gerrymandering led to Republicans winning 22 more seats in the U.S. House; across the country, four times as many states had Republican-skewed state Assembly and House districts than those that favored Democrats.
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