Democrats won but Republicans are calling the shots.
Why do you think that is?Republican state legislators are advancing a rush of new bills aimed at limiting voting access, and especially access to voting by mail, in the wake of President Biden’s victory last year in the highest-turnout election in American history.
The proposals come after months of pressure from former President Trump, who with the help of Republican allies spread false claims and conspiracy theories related to the election, including that widespread voter fraud cost him a victory.
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“Rather than competing for voters, there are some politicians that instead would prefer to lock people out of the process.”
The Hill
Arizona state Rep. Kevin Payne (R) has filed legislation to eliminate a permanent early voting list, one that automatically sends absentee ballots to 3.2 million voters — three-quarters of the state’s registered voters. The permanent early voting list was created in 2007 at the behest of both Republican and Democratic county elections officials.
Payne has also introduced a bill to require a notary’s signature on any mail-in ballot, in a state in which the vast majority of voters cast their ballots by mail.
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Top Republicans in Georgia are planning legislation to further restrict absentee voting, after Biden won the state’s electoral votes and Sens. Raphael Warnock (D) and Jon Ossoff (D) defeated two Republican incumbents. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) told a legislative panel last week he supported adding a photo identification requirement to absentee ballots.
“Many Georgians are concerned about the integrity of our election system. Some of those concerns may or may not be well-founded, but there may be others that are,” state House Speaker David Ralston (R) told the Georgia Chamber of Commerce earlier this month.
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Pennsylvania Republicans have plans to hold more than a dozen hearings on election integrity over the next several months after Biden won the state by more than 80,000 votes. State Rep. Jim Gregory (R) has introduced legislation to repeal an expansion of mail-in voting.
In Michigan, state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R) has said he will work on a new requirement that voters show a photo identification at the polls. Biden won Michigan, a state Trump narrowly carried in 2016, by more than 150,000 votes, almost 3 percentage points.
Wisconsin state Rep. Gary Tauchen (R) earlier this year introduced legislation that would allocate presidential electoral votes to the winner of each congressional district, rather than all 10 to the statewide winner.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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