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Who ya gonna blame? Certainly not GhostBusters. They have nothing to do with the elections.
Republicans are still contesting the 2020 election. So far no evidence. Republicans in state legislatures have been trying and often succeeding with voter suppression and election subversion,
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This is today’s news so naturally I could not have it in yesterday’s post (Update on voting rights)
But this is older:
Yes, another filibuster. This one of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act last month.
Stay tuned in case something happens to protect voting rights.. Maybe a way around the filibuster. Maybe enough Republicans will be voted out of office in 2022. Of course that last depends on voting and that seems to be the problem.
I wrote about Republicans opposing federal protection of voting rights which is needed because states are working to discourage voting and if people do vote despite their efforts some states can just invalidate the votes they don’t like. (see Senate Republicans oppose voting rights and oppose even talking about voting rights and Saving Republicans and Democracy ).
There has been no progress as far as I can tell.
Republicans again filibuster a bill to protect voting rights. As state Republicans pass bills to suppress voting and subvert elections, the Republicans in Congress do nothing. In some states they not only make is harder to vote but if the legislature doesn’t like the will of the people, they can just overturn the results of the election.
Senate Republicans as well as House Republicans are apparently fine with that.
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Apparently the Republican assault on democracy is not content with the sham audit in Arizona. The sham audit or fraudit will move on to other states.
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After the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was asked what type of government we would have. He replied “A Republic, if you can keep it.” That is old news. Well over 200 years old.
Now the question to us is ‘ Can we keep our republic ? ’ I asked this several years ago in a different context.
But now the same issue arises again as Republican state legislators pass a host of bills to suppress the vote and even override vote.
Can we keep our republic ? I hope so. It seems now is the time to act to save the republic known as the United States of America
The For the People Act of 2021 passed the House as HR 1 with no Republican votes. On March 17 it was introduced to the Senate as S.1 by Senator Markley and 48 Co-Sponsors. It was notable that that all were Democrats or Independents.
Republican also united in the Senate Rules Committee to oppose the bill.
Is there any specific part of the bill they do not like or is it just generally opposition to fair elections?
The Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2017 has been introduced in both the House and the Senate. Seems to be a simple issue. Who can be against voting rights? Well, maybe it not quite so simple. Maybe Republicans are against it and they are in charge now.
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