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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA New Confederacy: Trump and the Republicans have already seceded
You know which ones they are: Nineteen states have enacted 33 laws that make it harder for people to vote, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Fifteen states made it harder to apply for a mail-in ballot. Four states limited mail-in ballot drop boxes. Four states imposed stricter mail-in ballot signature requirements. Eight states imposed harder voter ID requirements. Seven states made it easier to purge voters from the rolls. Three states reduced the number of polling places and voting hours. Three more states reduced the number of days or hours of early voting. Five states made it harder to vote for people with disabilities and two states made it a crime to hand out water or snacks to voters waiting in long lines to vote.
More at https://www.rawstory.com/a-new-confederacy-trump-and-the-republicans-have-already-seceded/
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)If I lived in any of those states, I'd be thinking about it REALLY hard.
MiHale
(9,721 posts)walkingman
(7,606 posts)FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)... as long as you can vote out that idiot Governor.
Good luck my friend!
dchill
(38,481 posts)Fixed it!
PatSeg
(47,419 posts)It was many years ago and I vowed never to step foot in the state again. It seems to be far worse now than it was then. You have my sympathy. I was young when I left, but at my age now, it probably wouldn't be possible. It is a shame, as I really met a lot of great, generous people in Texas, but the ignorant haters ruined it for everyone and most of the haters were heavily armed.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)that more and more of them aren't worth the price of putting up with the political environment
.
calimary
(81,223 posts)For me its just another extension of that old post-Watergate-era saying:
Dont buy books by crooks.
multigraincracker
(32,674 posts)Has worked for me.
PatSeg
(47,419 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)KS Toronado
(17,219 posts)I doubt if it does, but I wish it outlawed voting machines and required paper ballots everywhere for
everyone. reQublicOns seem fixated on blaming voting machines for how Democrats stole the election
from them. They're currently laying the groundwork to challenge all future elections, and I believe they'll
always use "bad voting machines" to rile their voters into violence against us. So let's take away one of
their excuses. Mail ballots to all registered voters, mail 'em back or hand deliver.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)ancianita
(36,048 posts)Because if it's that many, it's a bigger confederacy.
scipan
(2,350 posts)[I just added any state for each category that didnt previously appear.]
omnibus laws that each contain several new restrictive provisions, + criminal penalties for helping voters:
*Florida *Georgia Iowa #Texas
Criminal penalties for helping voters:
+ Kansas
Multiple restrictions:
+ Arkansas Montana *Arizona
mail in voting restrictions:
+ Alabama Kentucky ^New York Oklahoma
Restrictions on drop boxes:
+ Indiana
Tightened signature requirements:
+ Idaho
Increased Voter ID requirements:
+ *New Hampshire Wyoming
Easier Voter purges:
+ Louisiana Utah
Increase number of voters per precinct:
+ *Nevada
* = purple; of these,
GA [16], AZ [11], NH [4], NV [6]were blue in 2020
# = trending purple [TX]
^ = blue [NY]
Info from:
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voting-laws-roundup-october-2021
Edit to add: please let me know if you see any mistakes. I did not double check. Blue/purple/red designations are from memory.
traitorsgalore
(1,396 posts)Texas and several other states will deny any democratic wins in 2022 and install their own republican puppets. The seceding states will not allow any legal actions against their coup as they will say they don't believe the U.S. has any authority to do it.
The reason Biden's approval rating is 38% now is because Americans know there's a coup underway and he's not doing anything about it by getting HR4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Amendment passed.
Also, the South didn't start the civil war, they seceded. Lincoln started the war by not allowing the filthy slave-owning South the leave. This time, when the filthy, disease-carrying, Qanut, seditious, domestic terrorist, women-hunting bounty hunters, racist, fascist, anti-intellectual traitors secede, PLEASE LET THEM LEAVE and don't let them back into the "United" States ever again.