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Ari Berman

25 Mar, 8 tweets, 4 min read

Mitch McConnell yesterday: "states are not engaging in efforts to suppress voters whatsoever"

Georgia House today: passes 95 page voter suppression bill

Georgia Senate is now taking up House passed voter suppression bill #sb202 & Brian Kemp could sign it as soon as tomorrow. This is how desperate they are to suppress votes

@gwlauren

One of most dangerous parts of GA voter suppression bill allows state legislature to appoint majority of state election board & take over county election boards in order to challenge election results

"It will make what we all lived through in 2020 child’s play" says @gwlauren

@senatorjen

Georgia GOP voter suppression bill started as 2 page bill dealing with absentee ballot requests & morphed into 95 page bill that is “Christmas tree of goodies in terms of voter suppression” says @senatorjen, including GOP takeover of state election board. Incredibly undemocratic

@marceelias

GOP voter suppression bill #sb202 passes Georgia Senate 34-20 & goes to Gov Kemp, who will sign

After they failed to steal last election, GOP trying to steal next one

@marceelias & others have already vowed to sue

One week after mass shooting in Atlanta Georgia Republicans have done nothing to stop future killings but passed 95 page bill making it harder to vote

@staceyabrams

Brian Kemp has signed Georgia GOP voter suppression bill #sb202

2 weeks ago I asked @staceyabrams what she'd say to Kemp if he signed anti-voting bills: "people will not forget the leadership that stole their votes"

Georgia is exhibit A for why Dems need to pass For the People Act & John Lewis Voting Rights Act. This voter suppression bill would've been blocked from the start if John Roberts hadn't gutted VRA

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@Cannonfor58

This is insane: Georgia Dem rep @Cannonfor58 was arrested for trying to watch Brian Kemp sign new voter suppression bill. Look at how she is treated by police. This is straight out of Jim Crow

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H/t @stphnfwlr for posting this. Full video via @hannahjoyTV instagram.com/tv/CM2-GWCHTIz/

Dem state Rep Erica Thomas to Georgia capitol police: "You arrested a sitting state representative for nothing! She didn’t do anything but knock on the governor’s door. I’m so done. Protect and serve who?”

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Breaking: Georgia House passes 95 page GOP voter suppression bill allowing GOP takeover of state/county election boards, unlimited challenges to voter eligibility, restricting drop boxes & making it crime to give voters food & water in line

Georgia House voter suppression bill includes massively undemocratic power grab giving GOP legislature control of state election board, allowing them to take over county election boards & stripping power from GOP sec of state after he stood up to Trump motherjones.com/politics/2021/…

"What I'm worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is” Biden says about GOP voter suppression efforts. “It's sick. It's sick”

He calls out “not giving water to people when they’re in line to vote” referring to Georgia House bill passed today

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24 Mar

@amyklobuchar

Senate holding first hearing today on For the People Act, most important democracy reform bill since Voting Rights Act

S1 + John Lewis VRA would stop GOP voter suppression

"This is once-in-a-century moment to protect right to vote" says @amyklobuchar motherjones.com/politics/2021/…

@SenAlexPadilla

Dems can abolish filibuster to pass For the People Act & John Lewis Voting Rights Act or they can allow GOP to undermine democracy for next decade

"With so much at stake, we need to not just protect & defend voting rights, we need to grow them" says @SenAlexPadilla

41 GOP senators representing 21% of US can block bills like S1 supported by 68% of Americans that would expand voting access for tens of millions

If Dems don't end filibuster to pass S1 & John Lewis Voting Rights Act minority rule will get much worse

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2 cases of voter fraud in 2020: let’s make it harder to vote

38,000 gun deaths a year in US: let’s make it easier to buy guns

It should be easier to vote than it is to buy an assault weapon

In wake of two mass shootings in a week, Georgia Republicans are literally trying to loosen gun restrictions & pass many more voting restrictions ajc.com/politics/polit…

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@SenatorSinema

Arizona Republicans introduced more voter suppression bills than any state except Georgia

But @SenatorSinema wants to keep Jim Crow filibuster instead of stopping new wave of Jim Crow 2.0

AZ activists say it's "matter of life or death for democracy" motherjones.com/politics/2021/…

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