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29 Mar, 6 tweets, 3 min read
1. What's remarkable about Georgia's new law restricting voting is how it addresses all the "problems" that Trump invented out of whole cloth

@GovKemp rejected these conspiracies at the time but signed the law & now is pretending like its serious policy

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@GovKemp 2. Trump falsely claimed that drop boxes were a source of fraudulent ballots.

The new law restricts the number of drop boxes and requires them to be placed inside early voting sites, making them less useful

No reason to do this other than Trump's lies

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3. Trump claimed Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) was part of a conspiracy to steal the election for Biden.

So the new law removes Raffensperger as a voting member of the State Election Board.

No reason to do this other than Trump's lies.

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4. Trump claimed local election boards in Democratic areas were corrupt & part of an elaborate conspiracy to steal the election

Georgia's new law allows the State Election Board to replace local election administrators with an individual of its choosing

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5. Trump falsely claimed mail-in ballots were a source of fraudulent votes.

Georgia's new law imposes a new ID requirement to return an absentee ballot.

There is no reason to do this other than Trump's lies.

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6. Turning Trump's fever dreams about why he lost the election into legislation that restricts voting is something that Republicans are doing across the country.

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31 Mar
1. Corporate PAC donations to the politicians behind voter suppression legislation in Texas (2018-present):

@oncor (577K)
@ATT (575K)
@USAA (370K)
@CharterNewsroom (346K)
@WeAreFarmers (333K)
@BNSFRailway (239K)
@StateFarm (217K)
@UnionPacific (201K)

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@oncor @ATT @USAA @CharterNewsroom @WeAreFarmers @BNSFRailway @StateFarm @UnionPacific 2. Corporate PAC donations to the politicians behind voter suppression legislation in Texas (2018-present) (con't):

@AnthemInc (182K)
@ValeroEnergy (168K)
@tmau (166K)
@GM (154K)
@VistraCorp (153K)
@Exelon (151K)
@comcast (142K)
@CenterPoint (136K)

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3. Corporate PAC $ to the politicians behind voter suppression bills in Texas (2018-present) (con't):

@CVSHealth (136K)
@UPS (125K)
@Centene (103K)
@Walmart (86K)
@Deloitte (80K)
@Phillips66Co (78K)
@BankofAmerica (43K)
@united (43K)
@DowNewsroom (40K)

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31 Mar
1. Texas already has the most restrictive voting laws in the nation

But with the state trending blue, Texas Republicans are pushing draconian new restrictions anyway

These politicians are backed by millions in corporate cash

Follow along if interested

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2. One major bill, SB 7, would make it more difficult for people with disabilities to vote by requiring them to submit a form filled out by a doctor attesting they are physically unable to vote in person in order to receive an absentee ballot

popular.info/p/texas-voter-…
3. SB 7 would require all countywide polling places to have about the same number of machines

Why is this important?

It would effectively prohibit the use of sports arenas as mega-voting locations

Use of these locations made it easier to vote in 2020

popular.info/p/texas-voter-…
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30 Mar
1. Many members of the media appear convinced that Biden rolled back Trump's immigration policy and created a "border crisis"

But Biden has left the most salient Trump border policy in place.

And the surge of migrants started in April, not February.

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2. On the left, is a chart tracking articles that mention "border crisis" in major publications. (Spike starts 3/21)

On the right, is the number of apprehensions at the border (Spike starts 4/20)

The coverage of the "crisis" is untethered to reality.

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3. The spike in apprehensions that begins in April 2020 tracks when the Trump administration began immediately deporting everyone for public health reasons.

Trump claims he had the authority under Section 42 of the US Code.

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27 Mar
1. Many media outlets are reporting Georgia's new voting law restricts voting in some ways but expands early voting

For many Georgians THIS ISN'T TRUE

In counties with lots of Democrats & people of color, the bill RESTRICTS EARLY VOTING

Facts matter

Follow along if interested
2. Previously, Georgia counties only had to provide one weekend day for early voting. The bill makes two Saturday's mandatory and leaves both Sundays optional.

But Fulton County and others that tilt Democratic already offered early voting on all four days.

So no change there.
3. But the new law PROHIBITS Fulton County from using mobile polling sites to cut down lines and make voting easier during the voting period. That's what they did last year.

So if you live in Fulton County, this is one way in which the new bill RESTRICTS early voting.
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25 Mar
1. Georgia's Governor just signed a law that:

- restricts drop boxes

- curtails early voting for runoffs

- criminalizes giving water to people waiting in line to vote

- imposes new ID requirements for absentee ballots

Prominent corporations helped make this possible.
2. The following corporations backed the sponsors of Georgia's voter suppression legislation AND never spoke out in opposition (2018-present)

@ATT (100K)
@CVSHealth (43K)
@Delta (42K)
@comcast (40K)
@SouthernCompany (39K)
@CocaCola (35K)
@UPS (35K)
@HomeDepot (34K)
3. Corporations that backed the sponsors of Georgia's voter suppression legislation AND never spoke out in opposition (2018-present) (con't)

@UnitedHealthGrp (28K)
@SunTrust (25K)
@Walmart (23K)
@Pfizer (17K)
@Allstate (17K)
@AnthemBCBS (17K)
@AnheuserBusch (17K)
@Verizon (15K)
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25 Mar
UPDATE: The Georgia General Assembly has passed a sweeping bill to restrict voting. It now heads back to the Georgia Senate.

It's now a critical moment for corporations like @CocaCola, @Delta, @UPS, @Aflac, @HomeDepot and @SouthernCompany

ajc.com/politics/bill-…
@CocaCola @Delta @UPS @aflac @HomeDepot @SouthernCompany 2. The Georgia Chamber, which represents these companies, said it stood in "opposition" to provisions in Republican proposals that "restrict or diminish voter access"

The implication was they'd push to get those provisions removed. That didn't happen

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3. The bill that is barreling toward the Governor's desk would impose new ID requirements on absentee ballots, severely restrict the use of drop boxes, curtail early voting for runoffs, and criminalize giving water to people waiting in line to vote

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