Thread by @AriBerman

Georgia Republicans weaponizing fake claims of voter fraud into real voter suppression:

-vowing to roll back mail voting

-closing polling places in Black & Latino areas

-launching bogus investigations into groups registering young & Black voters motherjones.com/2020-elections…

New voter suppression plan proposed by Georgia GOP:

-voter ID for mail ballots

-getting rid of no-excuse mail voting

-banning drop boxes

-making it easier to reject mail ballots

All b/c there was record turnout & Biden narrowly won state

This is the new GOP playbook: they don’t even need to find any evidence of voter fraud. The mere “perception” of such fraud spread by insane conspiracy theories is enough to justify new restrictions on voting. This is incredibly dangerous for democracy

Trump is losing all of his court cases. But that’s not the point. By keeping alive lie of mass fraud Republicans are laying groundwork to turbocharge voter suppression for next decade

“This feels, in a lot of ways, like the last stand for white supremacy and the Republican Party,” says @nseufot. “They are going to break the machinery of democracy on their way out the door.”

“We have a Republican Party that is singularly focused on disinformation warfare around nonexistent voter fraud,” says @gwlauren of @fairfightaction. “Those disinformation narratives are directly connected to restrictions on the right to vote.”