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SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
Thu May 7, 2020, 07:23 PM May 2020

GOP spending $20 million on lawyers to try and make it more difficult for Americans to vote during p

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/gop-spending-20-million-on-lawyers-to-try-and-make-it-more-difficult-for-americans-to-vote-during-pandemic-report/

On Thursday, Politico reported that Republicans are pouring millions of dollars into thwarting lawsuits trying to expand voting rights and ensure safe access to the ballot amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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GOP spending $20 million on lawyers to try and make it more difficult for Americans to vote during p (Original Post) SheltieLover May 2020 OP
Here are the other 3 grafs CurtEastPoint May 2020 #1
Thank you, Curt! SheltieLover May 2020 #2
Sure! CurtEastPoint May 2020 #3
😊 SheltieLover May 2020 #5
ah..yeah G_j May 2020 #4

CurtEastPoint

(18,639 posts)
1. Here are the other 3 grafs
Thu May 7, 2020, 07:31 PM
May 2020

“The Republican National Committee and Trump reelection campaign are doubling their legal budget to $20 million as litigation spreads to an array of battleground states,” reported Alex Isenstadt. “With the virus likely to complicate in-person balloting in November, Democrats have been pushing to substantially ease remote voting restrictions — something the Trump campaign and RNC are aggressively fighting in the courts.”


“Trump, who has long been fixated on voter fraud, has taken a personal interest in the project,” continued the report. “He is expected to discuss the legal maneuvering during a meeting with his political team Thursday.”

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Already, litigation battles have played out in Wisconsin, where Republicans blocked an expansion of absentee ballots; Oklahoma, where the state Supreme Court eliminated a requirement that mail-in ballots be notarized; and Texas, where a state judge has contradicted Attorney General Ken Paxton’s refusal to allow people to cite risk of COVID-19 as a “disability” for the purposes of an absentee ballot excuse.

G_j

(40,366 posts)
4. ah..yeah
Thu May 7, 2020, 07:40 PM
May 2020

“Trump, who has long been fixated on voter fraud, has taken a personal interest in the project,”

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