Voter suppression looks likely to be the GOP's fallback strategy for November

[OhioChick]

Posted Apr 19, 2020

CLEVELAND -- When you lose the popular vote in six out of seven presidential elections, it’s more than a coincidence. It’s a trend.

For Republicans, desperate times call for desperate measures -- especially given the near certainty that, no matter who wins the presidency Nov. 3, the nation’s voters will run that popular vote losing streak to seven of eight.

Blessed with more creativity than conscience, some GOP leaders may be tempted by another way to defy the relentless change in the nation’s demographics and win again this year. At its heart this strategy -- glimmerings of which are already visible -- reflects an abandonment of any belief in the sanctity of free, fair and open elections.

Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown knows a plot when he sees it. “They will do everything they can to suppress the vote,” Brown told me Monday. “Clearly, somebody has told [President] Trump if everybody votes, Republicans lose.”

https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2020/04/voter-suppression-looks-likely-to-be-the-gops-fallback-strategy-for-november.html

[notdarkyet]

1. Their liberation plan will surely get rid of a lot of trumpers. Dems don't need to go to the beach

So bad. They want mostly to vote out the crazies.

[beachbumbob]

2. voter suppression has ALWAYS been the GOP plan and we all know it and its OUR fault if we

are not prepared to deal with it. Not like we don;t have time or knowledge on how to address it.

- need proper ID, get it
- be sure you are registered, check it NOW


those a the 2 MAIN pathways to suppress the vote, after that its all about GOTV and rid ourselves of the GOP blight at every level of govt

[Hortensis]

3. Main, not fallback. All possible means of election theft will be used.

We thought they would be forced to become more representative, less extreme, or become irrelevant, but the GOP leaders went a different way -- they doubled down as the white male Christian power party and hitched their star to the new plutocrat class they helped create.

They can't send Brownshirts out to beat and intimidate people away from the polls; hostiles standing around some polling sites shooting hate stares are just wannabes. But we now have a variety of sophisticated forms of electronic and micro-targeted vote theft, and we have some foreign enemies with nation-state capabilities whose leaders' own security depends on keeping America from restoring Democratic leadership.

[Gothmog]

4. The GOP is the party of voter suppression