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In Echo Of Trump, GA House Speaker Despairs That Coronavirus Vote-By-Mail Measures Would Help Dems
Georgia House Speaker David Ralston (R) said the quiet part out loud Wednesday, bashing the secretary of state’s move to mail out absentee ballot applications to the state’s registered voters because the higher voter participation “will be extremely devastating to Republicans and conservatives in Georgia.”
“Every registered voter is going to get one of these,” he added in an interview with FetchYourNews, a local news site. “This will certainly drive up turnout.”
Ralston echoed President Donald Trump in his sentiments, who Monday aired a similar fear about Democratic proposals like increasing vote by mail and same-day registration.
“The things they had in there were crazy,” Trump said on “Fox and Friends.” “They had things — levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”
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Repubs would prefer if only people who they wanted to vote were allowed to. It's why, in a variety of ways, they try to suppress the votes of demographic groups who typically support Dems.
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A Court Strikes Down Texas's Voter ID Law For the Fifth Time
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It's rulings like this that made it so essential for Repubs to gut the Voting Rights Act.
Echoing Trump, GA Speaker Despairs That High Turnout Helps Dems
Georgia House Speaker Ralston (R) said that higher turnout in the primary “will be extremely devastating to Republicans and conservatives in Georgia.”
talkingpointsmemo.com
Georgia House Speaker David Ralston (R) said the quiet part out loud Wednesday, bashing the secretary of state’s move to mail out absentee ballot applications to the state’s registered voters because the higher voter participation “will be extremely devastating to Republicans and conservatives in Georgia.”
“Every registered voter is going to get one of these,” he added in an interview with FetchYourNews, a local news site. “This will certainly drive up turnout.”
Ralston echoed President Donald Trump in his sentiments, who Monday aired a similar fear about Democratic proposals like increasing vote by mail and same-day registration.
“The things they had in there were crazy,” Trump said on “Fox and Friends.” “They had things — levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”
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Repubs would prefer if only people who they wanted to vote were allowed to. It's why, in a variety of ways, they try to suppress the votes of demographic groups who typically support Dems.
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A Court Strikes Down Texas's Voter ID Law For the Fifth Time
Texas's Voter ID Law Is Struck Down, Again
By finding legislators intentionally discriminated, a district court's ruling could put state elections laws back under control of the Department of Justice.
www.theatlantic.com
It's rulings like this that made it so essential for Repubs to gut the Voting Rights Act.