New Brennan Center study shows Manchin's insistence on bipartisan voting protections is ludicrous

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New Brennan Center study shows Manchin's insistence on bipartisan voting protections is ludicrous

Jun 11, 2021 4:31pm Eastern Daylight Time 

by Kerry Eleveld, Daily Kos Staff

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/11/2034820/-As-Republicans-decimate-voting-rights-Manchin-insists-they-must-be-part-of-the-solution

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When Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia shot down Democrats' signature voting rights legislation in an op-ed last week, he said that protecting voting rights "should never be done in a partisan manner."

But a new Brennan Center analysis of the voter suppression laws sweeping the nation shows what a preposterous and indeed hypocritical position that is. The center's examination of the 24 state-level voting restriction laws enacted as of early June proves the suppression efforts have been an almost exclusively Republican enterprise.

"Overall, we find that these new laws were enacted as part of an overwhelmingly partisan Republican push," reads the report. "Republicans introduced and drove virtually all of the bills that impose new voting restrictions, and the harshest new laws were passed with almost exclusively Republican votes and signed into law by Republican governors.”

Still somehow Manchin insists that GOP lawmakers at the federal level are both interested in and fundamental to playing a corrective role to their counterparts in the states.

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1. I wish someone should just ask how much money he would accept to vote for HR1

Since he’s getting chamber of commerce money to oppose HR1 he should be offered a higher figure.

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2. The brennan center has been doing great work for democracy for years

Thank goodness for them

And of course they are correct again