Republicans have been very busy enacting their voter suppression agenda. Here’s a recap thread of the major developments from last week alone:
An Arizona Senate committee approved legislation to shorten the early voting period & require ballots be postmarked 5 days prior to the election. Another bill passed the Senate to implement voter ID for mail voting; 80% of the electorate used mail ballots in last year’s election.
Florida Senate Republicans advanced a bill to ban ballot drop boxes, require absentee voting requests be renewed each election year, & make it a crime to collect ballots from anyone other than a family member. The bill’s sponsor acknowledged it wouldn’t solve any known problems.
The Georgia Senate voted to eliminate no-excuse absentee voting; other pending bills would curtail Sunday early voting and even make it illegal to give voters snacks or water while they wait in line, a clear assault on Black churches’ GOTV efforts.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill that will cut early voting by about a third and eliminate an hour of voting on Election Day. The proposal also calls for voters to be removed from the rolls if they miss just one general election.
Texas Republicans filed seven bills in the Senate that would curtail access to voting. One proposal would require all counties to observe the same early voting hours. Another bill would impose a Kris Kobach-style crosscheck regulation to try and purge the voter rolls.
A new voter ID bill sponsored by 40+ Pennsylvania Republicans was referred to committee. The sponsor argued it was needed to ensure people don’t negate the votes of others, even though he himself called on Congress to reject Pennsylvania voters’ choice in the Electoral College.
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