Republicans keep talking about the types of people who they would like to ban from voting. |
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/republicans-ballot-harvesting-fraud-claims-rcna151952 GOP has decided to embrace it. They also figured out that their stance on absentee/mail-in ballots cost them. Forget the guy's name, but a Georgia election official did a one hour interview that's on Youtube and had receipts to explain how lobbying against mail in ballots screwed Trump in Georgia, based on primary absentee voting vs general election. Although it might also be the case that older members of Trump's base were killed off by Covid between primary season and November, and they would have also been more likely to rely on mail in ballots. |
Listen to Adam Kissinger that is all the motivation you will need for expanded voting.
If you want people to vote for you, you get better ideas and inspire them to vote for you, not by limiting who can vote |
FYI Adam Kissinger is a Republican |
These sorts of people, who organize ordinary GOP voters to "do their own research" and challenge local registration lists, are a nightmare for county officials, because they actually do a great job on their own but have to take time and resources to answer to these challenges, which mostly result in confirming the county had already removed names who would not be able to vote. |
That’s part of the GOP machine, to make officials, especially not well funded local officials, spin their wheels and waste time. It’s a time honored GOP tradition that goes back to at least the 1980s (that’s when I first heard about it, some forced birthers bragging about how they wasted people’s time so that they couldn’t do the other functions of their job as easily). |
The GOP continues a legal fight against mail ballots that arrive after Election Day
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/07/nx-s1-5065841/mississippi-mail-ballot-return-lawsuit |