"We have a culture problem in the Republican Party."

"Rather than solving the problems of their citizenry ... they are using their precious time in state legislature after state legislature to pass voting restriction laws targeting Black, brown, and young voters." @marceelias
"If we can buy time for our democracy and maybe have some shift in the [GOP] that it stops viewing people voting as an existential threat to the party, rather they start to see the participation of all Americans as a goal we should aspire to, then maybe we succeed." @marceelias
"Do I think it violates federal law? Yeah, I do. Because federal law requires that the ballots in federal elections be kept for 22 months after the election, and these ballots have essentially been tainted. Do I think it violates state law in some of these states? Yeah."
"I wish the judges would view this with the seriousness of democracy being at threat rather than just feeling like, well if they humor these crazy people they'll go away." @marceelias

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