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After Record Turnout, Republicans Are Trying to Make It Harder to Vote
NYT ^ | Jan. 30, 2021 | Michael Wines

Posted on 02/01/2021 8:38:54 PM PST by yesthatjallen

In Georgia, Arizona and other states won by President Biden, some leading Republicans stood up in November to make what, in any other year, would be an unremarkable statement: The race is over. And we lost, fair and square.

But that was then. Now, in statehouses nationwide, Republicans who echoed former President Donald J. Trump’s baseless claims of rampant fraud are proposing to make it harder to vote next time — ostensibly to convince the very voters who believed them that elections can be trusted again. And even some colleagues who defended the legitimacy of the November vote are joining them.

According to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, state legislators have filed 106 bills to tighten election rules, generally making it harder to cast a ballot — triple the number at this time last year. In short, Republicans who for more than a decade have used wildly inflated allegations of voter fraud to justify making it harder to vote, are now doing so again, this time seizing on Mr. Trump’s thoroughly debunked charges of a stolen election to push back at Democratic-leaning voters who flocked to mail-in ballots last year.

In Georgia, where the State House of Representatives has set up a special committee on election integrity, legislators are pushing to roll back no-excuse absentee voting. Republicans in Pennsylvania plan 14 hearings to revisit complaints they raised last year about the election and to propose limitations on voting.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: election; failedenglishmajor; michaelwines; mikeywhines; mikeywines; voterfraud; voting
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To: yesthatjallen

I am tired of listening to lies from the NY Slimes.


21 posted on 02/01/2021 9:22:17 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Mark17

I couldn’t either.


22 posted on 02/01/2021 9:27:34 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: yesthatjallen

23 posted on 02/01/2021 9:30:18 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: jospehm20

If the NYT had a choice between telling the truth, or going to hell, they would choose Hell, and they will get it.


24 posted on 02/01/2021 9:35:29 PM PST by Mark17 (USAF Retired. Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot. )
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To: Mark17

Or as Doug MacArthur said of FDR:

“They never tell the truth if a lie will serve”.


25 posted on 02/01/2021 9:43:04 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (Eleutheromaniac)
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To: yesthatjallen

no clicks for commies


26 posted on 02/01/2021 9:49:47 PM PST by joshua c (Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv, natl name brands)
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To: yesthatjallen

Funny...

Without a uniform manner in the states to present an open and transparent accounting, verification, validation of all of the original physical ballots cast by U.S. citizens, the 2020 Presidential election is under protest, under constant investigation and must be addressed.

We Tax Payers paid for the ink, paper, the software, the volunteers, the electric, the buildings, the machines and the entire mess. We own it and we deserve to see every damn original ballot cast whenever we ask, it is the law in most states!

Show us the ballots!

Mark it...the 2020 Presidential election will forever be deemed illegitimate by over 120 + Million honest, tax paying citizens.

The elite swamp has been put on notice. To hell with the uni-party fart squad!


27 posted on 02/01/2021 9:59:14 PM PST by RetAF_fedUP (ojoke 69M votes,873 COs / Trump 74M votes,2497 CO's / EO goon 81M votes, 477 COs...Sure!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Might someone be able to explain to me why requiring ID to vote is such a bad thing? I’ve never really understood why the Democrats are against ID. A real explanation please, because it genuinely doesn’t make sense - unless the reason is to better enable illegal votes. I am however sure that’s not what the Democrats way is the reason they are against ID, so what is it?


28 posted on 02/01/2021 10:12:24 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: yesthatjallen

If the DemocRATs really believed that fraud has nothing to do with Biden’s ascension to the presidency, they would welcome measures to ensure vote integrity. If only to prove Biden’s legitimacy, they would clamor for election integrity safeguards. The fact that they oppose every such measure with lame excuses that a baby could see through says everything: yes, there was fraud, and they want to protect it.


29 posted on 02/01/2021 10:12:55 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: yesthatjallen
this time seizing on Mr. Trump’s thoroughly debunked charges of a stolen election to push back at Democratic-leaning voters who flocked to mail-in ballots last year

So, there were investigations into the allegations of election fraud? Why haven't those investigations been made public? Just saying that the charges are debunked is not the same as actually debunking them.

30 posted on 02/01/2021 10:16:11 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: spetznaz

I am however sure that’s not what the Democrats way is the reason they are against ID, so what is it?


It is racist and causes global warming..................


31 posted on 02/01/2021 10:22:11 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

I know, but seriously - when they go in front of one of their usual propaganda shows, what reason do they give? What rationale, no matter how fake, do they try to lean on to explain their displeasure with voter ID laws? M


32 posted on 02/01/2021 10:36:39 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: yesthatjallen

Anyone who says we lost fair and square is deluded.

Democrats stealing elections is not fair and square.

Courts refusing to even hear evidence is not fair and square.

Biden even bragged about the scope of the voter fraud machine they had in place! And his proverbial campaigning fr9m the basement was exactly the sort of effort one would expect from someone who knew he didn’t have to try.

He needs the rest should he charged under RICO. Mob bosses went down with as much.


33 posted on 02/01/2021 10:53:43 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: yesthatjallen
Fake turnout.
34 posted on 02/01/2021 10:57:10 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: yesthatjallen

The Soviet friendly NYet Times has lied again.


35 posted on 02/01/2021 11:04:18 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: yesthatjallen

Make it harder for impostors to vote and for ballot boxes to be stuffed with socialist confetti.


36 posted on 02/01/2021 11:34:35 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: yesthatjallen

Obama 65 million votes (most ever)
Wins 829 counties
Wins Ohio and Florida

Trump 75 million votes
Win 2500 counties
Wins Ohio and Florida

Biden 81 million votes
Wins 425 counties
Loses Ohio and Florida


37 posted on 02/01/2021 11:53:36 PM PST by nikos1121 ( )
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To: yesthatjallen
There is NO legitimate American, and most illegals, that doesn't haver ID.

Make photo ID voting a law and be done with it.


I know, we lost our chance

38 posted on 02/02/2021 12:36:42 AM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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To: yesthatjallen
"After Record Turnout, Republicans Are Trying to Make It Harder to Vote"

More like:
After Fraudulent Turnout, Republicans Are Trying to Make It Harder to print fake ballots...

39 posted on 02/02/2021 12:42:33 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: yesthatjallen
In Georgia, Arizona and other states won by President Biden, some leading Republicans stood up in November to make what, in any other year, would be an unremarkable statement: The race is over.

The NYT is again pretending that there was no fraud in Georgia. The NYT is saying that Biden won Georgia without evidence.

Where is the evidence that shows that there were no "show stopper" election irregularities such as outright voter fraud, ballot mishandling, contestable process fouls, equal protection clause violations, voting machine irregularities, and significant statistical anomalies?

Where is the responsible journalism?

Where are the results of deep audits and forensic examination of the voting machines?

Election integrity concerns are a show stopper for the 2020 election. These concerns must be put away by presenting the evidence that all was well, or identifying and fixing irregularities now.

Maybe the NYT has not seen the Navarro reports. They are a model for responsible journalists and politicians to follow to counter the argument that there was fraud.

40 posted on 02/02/2021 3:14:34 AM PST by olezip
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