Here's another GOP voting law that's almost comically suspect

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David Atkins
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As @ThePlumLineGS notes, a lot of the GOP voter suppression laws are likely to be counterproductive, inspiring greater turnout by Democrats.

So why do it? Because they need to re-energize a base that no believes it's worth voting due to Trump's Big Lie.

Opinion | Here’s another GOP voting law that’s almost comically suspect
Shockingly, Republicans appear to think voter suppression is in their party's interests.
washingtonpost.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/29/heres-another-gop-voting-law-thats-almost-comically-suspect/

With Republicans launching voter-suppression efforts across the country, one emerging argument has been that such GOP efforts don’t actually work. If anything, goes this line, they inspire a counter-mobilization from Democratic voters that tends to offset those tactics — and then some.

Which raises a question: If that is so, then why don’t Republicans themselves believe this? Why do they continue to pursue policies that are so comically suspect on their face that they almost appear designed to enrage and energize the opposition?

The latest example of this comes out of Florida, as NBC News reports:

Florida Republicans are considering a bill that would effectively make it a crime to give voters food or drink, including water, within 150 feet of polling places.

State law currently prohibits campaigning within 100 feet of polling locations, but an elections bill introduced last week, H.B. 7041, expands that zone to 150 feet and includes a prohibition on giving “any item” to voters or “interacting or attempting to interact” with voters within that zone.

State Rep. Blaise Ingoglia, a Republican from Spring Hill, said in a committee meeting last Monday that the ban would include “food or beverages.”

This resembles the new law Georgia Republicans just passed, which bans third-party groups from sharing food and water with people waiting in voting lines. That appears aimed at making voting more miserable for African American voters, who tend to come from areas with longer voting lines and wait times.

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[PortTack]

1. Because they, just like the voters they appeal to go against their own best interests?

Because they know they’ve got nothing else?

Seriously..a mystery

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2. kick