…from Newsweek….
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said former President Donald Trump would have lost in Texas in the 2020 election if his office had not successfully blocked counties from mailing out applications for mail-in ballots to all registered voters.
Harris County, home to the city of Houston, wanted to mail out applications for mail-in ballots to its approximately 2.4 million registered voters due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the conservative Texas Supreme Court blocked the county from doing so after it faced litigation from Paxton’s office.
“If we’d lost Harris County—Trump won by 620,000 votes in Texas. Harris County mail-in ballots that they wanted to send out were 2.5 million, those were all illegal and we were able to stop every one of them,” Paxton told former Trump adviser Steve Bannon during the latter’s War Room podcast on Friday.
“Had we not done that, we would have been in the very same situation—we would’ve been on Election Day, I was watching on election night and I knew, when I saw what was happening in these other states, that that would’ve been Texas. We would’ve been in the same boat. We would’ve been one of those battleground states that they were counting votes in Harris County for three days and Donald Trump would’ve lost the election,” the Republican official said.
image….Joe Raedle/Getty
Keep people from voting!
The motto of the Republican Party 2021
I think that from now on we are now fully entitled to call the once-grand old party of Frémont and Lincoln the Anti-Democratic Party.
Slave Labor, Slave Soil, Slave Men and Slavemont !
Republican State Legislatures Are Winning Their War On American Democracy
Travis Waldron·Reporter, HuffPost
Sun, June 6, 2021, 8:00 AM
…Right now, Republican state legislatures are broadly winning their war against voting access and American democracy. And stopping them is going to take far more drastic action than many Democrats — especially Democrats in Washington — have been willing to consider.
Fueled by lies that widespread voter fraud cost Donald Trump the 2020 election, Republicans have passed new voter suppression laws at the fastest pace in a decade. They have advanced legislation — and in some states, passed bills into law — that would make it easier for local officials and legislatures to overturn future elections. Republican officials who questioned the results of the 2020 election are lining up to run for secretary of state positions and other elected positions that would give them more control over elections.
Democratic state legislatures have pushed to expand voting rights, and Democratic leaders made major voting rights and election reform packages a top priority at the beginning of this Congress.
But the scope of Democrats’ expansive bills in state legislatures hasn’t matched the aggression of GOP efforts to curb voting rights, and neither has the Democrats’ strategy.
Key Senate Democrats — including West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema — have refused to back filibuster reform or abolition to pass the For The People Act, the sweeping election reform and voting rights legislation that passed the House in March. (On Sunday, Manchin announced his opposition to the bill and reiterated his support for the filibuster, jeopardizing additional Democratic reform efforts.) Republicans are uniformly opposed to the bill, and this insistence on bipartisanship from key Democratic players will likely kill it.
Meanwhile, GOP state lawmakers have shown no such hesitancy to use their majorities to ram through the sort of major voting restrictions and election overhauls they believe will help them win — or give them more power to overturn elections if they don’t.
“They’re working to criminalize voting, and they’re working to criminalize protesting,” said Nse Ufot, the CEO of the New Georgia Project. But too many Democrats, Ufot said, “are not meeting the urgency of this moment with their own urgency in action.”
‘A Virtually Unprecedented Effort’ To Suppress The Vote
Republican legislatures in 14 states have already passed 23 laws that placed new restrictions on voting, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Another 60 restrictive bills are moving through legislatures in 18 states, according to the Brennan Center’s legislative tracker. At the current pace, the U.S. will have more new voter suppression laws than in any year since 2011, when a rash of new voter ID provisions went onto the books.
State legislatures have approved more bills that expand voting rights than bills that restrict them. But many of those bills have passed in states where it is already easier to vote, meaning progress has been slower than the regress that has occurred as Republicans implement new restrictions in key swing states and solidly red states alike.
The GOP’s efforts have specifically targeted Black, brown and Native voters, initiatives that help expand access to the polls, and programs that drive turnout among typically disenfranchised populations.
“We are seeing a virtually unprecedented effort to suppress Americans’ right to vote in states across the country, of the sort that we haven’t really seen since the Jim Crow era,” said Eliza Sweren-Becker, who leads the Brennan Center’s state voting laws program…
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/republican-voting-rights-democracy-120000627.html
Very True observance….
One can only hope Democratic get out the vote efforts INCREASE the votes in ‘their’ area’s
And maybe ?
GOPer area’s will just shrink
That’s the point of all this legislation. To keep Democrats especially from voting.
One can only hope, or one can actually admit that our democracy is under attack by a Republican Party who obviously believes all the lies Trump is telling.
And then the Texas AG is being checked on by his bar assoc….
Texas Bar Investigates Paxton
The Texas bar association is investigating whether state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud amounted to professional misconduct, the Associated Press reports.