After record turnout in Georgia, state Senate Republicans introduce bills to end automatic voter registration, no-excuse absentee voting & ballot drop boxes. This would impact millions of voters & be one of worst voter suppression laws ever passed bit.ly/3j9dPdD
Republicans wrote every aspect of Georgia’s election laws. They’re only trying to change it after Black voters turned out in record numbers to flip state blue & elect two Dem senators
This is exactly why Dems need to pass John Lewis Voting Rights Act & major democracy reforms
Republicans are now weaponizing Trump’s lies to make it harder for Dem constituencies to vote. They couldn’t steal the last election through litigation so they’re trying to steal the next one with anti-democratic legislation motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
On first day of Black History Month Georgia Republicans introduced NINE bills to make it harder to vote, particularly targeting Black voters. Tells you everything about their priorities
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One question I am asked over & over is can Biden fire Louis DeJoy?
He can't fire DeJoy directly but he can appoint 3 new governors to USPS board giving Dems 5-4 majority that could get rid of him & reverse changes designed to sabotage USPS
Trump DOJ filed only 1 small case to enforce Voting Rights Act
Expect Biden DOJ to file many more
"The biggest thing to change will be the willingness to use the enforcement authority they’ve got through DOJ" says @_justinlevitt_
Senate Dems represent 41 million more Americans than GOP but Mitch McConnell wants 21 small state GOP senators representing less than a quarter of population to be able to block laws supported by huge majorities of Americans with filibuster motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
This is how undemocratic US Senate is:
-15 states with 38 million people elect 30 GOP senators
-California with 40 million people elects 2 Dems
-By 2040, 30% of America will elect 70 senators. 70% of America will elect only 30
-Senate split 50-50 but Dems represent 41 million more people
-majority of SCOTUS justices appointed by presidents who lost popular vote & confirmed by senators representing minority of Americans
-GOP legislatures hold power despite winning fewer votes b/c of gerrymandering
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
Runoff elections set up in Georgia in early 1960s by segregationists to keep Black voters from participating
But high turnout, diverse electorate & 2 years of organizing against voter suppression could be the difference for Dem Senate candidates on Jan 5 motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
In 1963 segregationist GA Rep proposed runoff elections "as a means of circumventing what is called the Negro bloc vote.” GOP has dominated since then
But record turnout in 2020, organizing against suppression & diverse Biden coalition giving Dems hope for Senate races