The coming coup: How Republicans are laying the groundwork to steal future elections

[Nevilledog]

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Ari Berman
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Sinema & Manchin are going to allow GOP to pass wave of new voter suppression laws, election subversion measures & extreme gerrymandered maps with no consequences, letting Republicans rig 2022 & 2024. This is exactly how democracy dies

motherjones.com
The coming coup: How Republicans are laying the groundwork to steal future elections
Democrats are nearly out of time to stop them.
10:43 AM · Jan 13, 2022

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/how-republicans-are-taking-over-election-system-big-lie/


A week before the ninth anniversary of her son’s murder, Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.) discovered that Republicans had radically redrawn her district to oust her from Congress.

A political novice, McBath had became a leading gun control advocate after her 17-year-old son, Jordan Davis, was shot by a white man in 2012 in an altercation over the volume of rap music he was playing. She went on to stage one of the biggest electoral upsets in Georgia’s recent history when, in 2018, she became the first Black person to represent the state’s 6th District, Newt Gingrich’s home turf for 20 years. Her victory exemplified Democratic inroads in formerly red states like Georgia and the new power being exercised by communities of color in the rapidly diversifying South. But those gains are quickly being erased by the GOP through a toxic combination of gerrymandering, voter suppression, and election subversion that together pose a mortal threat to free and fair elections.

Georgia is a microcosm of the extreme tactics Republicans are using across the country to entrench power in advance of the midterms. What can appear as a series of seemingly disconnected state-level skirmishes is in fact part of an insidious national strategy that goes far beyond previous efforts to suppress and undermine Democratic influence. Fueled by the Big Lie, this effort picks up where last year’s insurrection left off by putting in place the pieces to steal future elections by systematically taking over every aspect of the voting process.

Over the course of 2021, 19 states passed 34 laws making it harder to vote—the greatest rollback of voting access since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Those changes include more than a dozen GOP-controlled states passing new provisions to interfere with impartial election administration, while Trump and his allies aggressively recruit “Stop the Steal”–inspired candidates to take over key election positions like secretary of state offices and local election boards in major battleground states.

“What we’re seeing is a multifaceted, multilevel attack on American democracy,” says Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State.

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[2naSalit]

1. K&R

[Blaukraut]

2. I'm seriously freaking out here

What can we possibly do to stop them? And what happens after the takeover is complete? We're likely going to lose both houses in November and the presidency in '24. How is the slide into autocracy going to affect blue states? Are we going to be left alone or are they going to punish us into submission?

[uponit7771]

3. We don't have till 2024, all GQP has to do is win in 2022 and that's it cause there's nothing

... to change their state level laws.

[Nevilledog]

4. Hate to say it, but I think we're done.

[PortTack]

5. Please please remember all of these illegal unconstitutional laws are being challenged in the courts

And the most egregious parts will not stand. There are 7 suits against the GA law alone. Many of them will be heard in the first half of this year

For updates follow Marc Elias on twitter and democracydocket.com

Yes absolutely we need voter rights laws...unfortunately......