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29 ways Republicans assault the right to vote

Republicans don’t believe in or support democracy. If they did, they wouldn’t try so hard to keep American citizens from voting. Listed below are 29 ways the GOP assaults the right to vote. For details, read this Mother Jones article here.

  1. Blocking mail-in ballot requests
  2. Blocking universal mail voting
  3. Requiring an excuse to vote by mail
  4. Preventing drop boxes
  5. Throwing out ballots with mismatched signatures
  6. Requiring a witness signature
  7. Throwing out “naked ballots”
  8. Prohibiting the collection of ballots
  9. Sabotaging the Postal Service
  10. Strict voter ID laws
  11. Cuts to early voting
  12. Disenfranchising people with felony convictions
  13. Closing polling places
  14. Recruiting poll watchers
  15. Blocking college students from voting
  16. Blocking online registration
  17. Purging the voter rolls
  18. Fighting efforts reduce reliance on dodgy technology
  19. Keeping threats to election security under wraps
  20. Blocking election integrity legislation
  21. Encouraging people to vote twice
  22. Lying about voter fraud
  23. Setting harmful expectations of a quick result
  24. Dismissing Russian intervention
  25. Doing Russia’s work
  26. Targeting Black voters with illegal robocalls
  27. Weaponizing “delays”
  28. Blocking late-arriving ballots
  29. Preparing to to nullify the results

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  1. Mark Adams #
    1

    Guess there is something worth stealing.

  2. Roger Rabbit #
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    Lots of things are worth stealing, but that doesn’t make stealing right.

  3. Lie Cheat and Steal Must be a Republican #
    3

    Justifying right wing election stealing doesn’t make stealing right.

    Intelligent people right and left realize American democracy needs a new president.