Republican lawyer explains in one sentence why his party wants to make it harder to vote
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One of the central disagreements between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party is coming into focus: voting rights. House Democrats are poised to pass an expansion of voting rights, while at the state level, Republicans have put forward morRepublican lawyer explains in one sentence why his party wants to make it harder to vote
One of the central disagreements between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party is coming into focus: voting rights. House Democrats are poised to pass an expansion of voting rights, while at the state level, Republicans have put forward more than 250 bills restricting voting. Unless Senate Democrats end the filibuster, Senate Republicans will block the For the People Act. State Republicans will definitely pass many voting restrictions. In fact, in Georgia, state election officials already said in December that they would start interpreting a law that bans “the giving or receiving of money or gifts for the purpose of registering as a voter, voting, or voting for a particular candidate” as banning groups from handing out bottles of water or pizza to people waiting in long lines to vote. As if someone is going to go wait in an hours-long line because they might get a bottle of water or slice of pizza out of it. This is a fundamental conflict in the views of the two parties, and Republicans have said again and again why they want to make it harder to vote or to have your vote counted: It helps them win. Read more