May 20, 2021 - 9:09am
Republican state legislators, including dozens tied to the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), are pushing to loosen restrictions on poll watching, which has historically been aimed at preventing Black Americans from voting.
These poll watching initiatives are part of a broader movement to suppress voting in the wake of a presidential election and violent insurrection that didn t achieve what these lawmakers wanted.
The Republican Party s use of poll watching as an intimidation tactic has a particularly notorious history, and was essentially prohibited in 1982 when a federal judge brokered a consent decree between the Republican and Democratic national committees barring the GOP from engaging in ballot security and voter intimidation efforts without prior judicial approval. Before then, the RNC had hired armed, off-duty police officers to patrol majority-minority precincts wearing National Ballot Security Task Force armbands.
Can We ‘Move On’?
This is the desire of some when talking about the events of 06 January……especially those that either participated or helped fund the insurrection.
I especially like the statement by yet another moron in the GOP when he said that the insurrectionists were just a group of tourists visiting the Capital……
To that desire I say ‘bite me’.
They, insurrectionists, are traitors and anyone that defend this action is one as well.
No true American should never move on from this assault on our nation….would they have the country ‘move on’ from the events of 9/11?
A recent webinar of business PACs want to put this behind them and move ‘forward’…..
At least 37 states are attempting to suppress the vote in their states…..of course they use the security of the institution as a premise for the suppression.
But since it is a wildly popular in most states the next question logically would be ….whose idea was this suppression……where did it all originate……
A great question and now we know thanks to a leaked video…..
In a private meeting last month with big-money donors, the head of a top conservative group boasted that her outfit had crafted the new voter suppression law in Georgia and was doing the same with similar bills for Republican state legislators across the country. “In some cases, we actually draft them for them,” she said, “or we have a sentinel on our behalf give them the model legislation so it has that grassroots, from-the-bottom-up type of vibe.”