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Judi Lynn

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Sun Jan 2, 2022, 04:49 AM Jan 2022

Report Spotlights Massive GOP Push to 'Hijack Elections in This Country'

"These coordinated efforts are based on the same lies about the 2020 election that led to a violent insurrection."

JAKE JOHNSON
December 24, 2021

A detailed analysis published Thursday shines further light on the Republican Party's sprawling assault on voting rights and the democratic process nationwide, an effort that includes legislation that would "politicize, criminalize, and interfere" with elections.

Compiled by the States United Democracy Center, Protect Democracy, and Law Forward, the new report identifies at least 262 bills in 41 states that—if enacted—would "interfere with election administration." More than 30 such measures have become law in 17 Republican-led states.

But the report makes clear that the intensifying Republican attack on democracy reaches far beyond the legislative process. "The nature of the threat," the authors warn, "has metastasized beyond proposing or passing bills."

"As we look toward 2022, we anticipate the anti-democratic strategy will consist of four key pillars: (i) changing the rules to make it easier to undermine the will of the voters; (ii) changing the people who defend our democratic system by sidelining, replacing, or attacking professional election officials; (iii) promoting controversial constitutional theories about our elections to justify partisan takeovers; and (iv) eroding public confidence and trust in elections," the analysis notes. "These four pillars are the foundation for election sabotage, contrary to the will of the voters."

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/24/report-spotlights-massive-gop-push-hijack-elections-country


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Report Spotlights Massive GOP Push to 'Hijack Elections in This Country' (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2022 OP
K&R. Wanna keep track of this one. calimary Jan 2022 #1
Republicans know that even in some red states that simple demographics and the wants and needs ... Botany Jan 2022 #2
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2022 #3
"If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying" They mean it. czarjak Jan 2022 #4
Attacking the pillars of democracy is the only thing in the Republican Party platform. Beartracks Jan 2022 #5

Botany

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2. Republicans know that even in some red states that simple demographics and the wants and needs ...
Sun Jan 2, 2022, 06:57 AM
Jan 2022

... of society will doom them to being a minority party and so to keep power they have to cheat.
However that is nothing new because they have been doing just that since Nixon who in 1968 went
behind the legally elected President's (LBJ) back and told both the North and South Vietnamese
not to go along with the peace deal that was on the table but to wait until he is President and that
he would get them a better deal. Which he didn't do and then signed the exact same deal that LBJ and
the North Vietnamese had on the table in January of 1973.

Republicans cheating to get and or keep power is their S.O.P..

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