Thread by @weareoversight

Voting rights are under attack. In January and February of this year alone, state lawmakers in 43 states introduced or carried over more than 250 bills restricting voting rights.
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But the stolen-election lie isn’t just fueling new voting restrictions in states, it’s also led to numerous other measures meant to dampen democracy, from changing ballot-initiative rules to laying the groundwork for a new wave of gerrymandering.
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Here are a few examples. In Arizona, lawmakers have been leading the charge in introducing bills that restrict voting.
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This week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Brnovich v. DNC. The case revolves around two Arizona laws that make voting harder. It could undermine a remaining key provision of the Voting Rights Act.

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In oral arguments, an attorney for Arizona’s Republican Party bluntly defended voting restrictions by saying such limits help Republicans win.
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In Georgia, a measure is moving through the legislature that would place tougher restrictions on absentee and in-person early voting. Another bill would allow the state to take over local election offices determined to be “low-performing.”

Just today, the voting rights group @morethanavote released an ad highlighting these issues in Georgia.

https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status/1367868436630667268?s=20

Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, also wants to make it harder to vote by mail, and last month proposed a number of new restrictive laws.
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And in Iowa, the state legislature passed a bill curtailing early voting and placing new restrictions on absentee voting.
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The secretary of state of Ohio also seems determined to limit the number of drop boxes, despite multiple judges having ruled that he had the legal authority to order multiple boxes per county.
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In Louisiana, conspiracy theories promoted by Donald Trump and his allies are helping to stop a plan to modernize the state’s voting equipment.
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This is just a snapshot of alarming actions taking place at the state level. We’re using public records requests to shed light on the officials pushing these efforts and the groups shaping these damaging policies.

This week, we obtained copies of phony electoral vote certificates from seven states that had been submitted to Congress — part of the failed attempt to overturn the election results.

https://twitter.com/weareoversight/status/1366833207035985921?s=20

We also learned more about the response to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — a result of the coordinated, multi-state effort to undermine the electoral vote process and block the congressional certification of the real Electoral College votes.

On Wednesday, in our investigation of the incident, we received records, first obtained and reported on by the Washington Post, that show that the DHS Federal Protective Service had warned about the potential for violence the day before the attack.

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We keep expanding our investigations into these efforts to undermine democracy. Learn more about our work here:
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