Heather Digby Parton explains, It’s not voter suppression, stupid. The GOP’s new — and old — weapon is vote nullification (excerpt): [T]he civil rights groups and Democratic Party officials who have been fighting for the right to vote for years don’t have a lot of experience dealing with this specific type of assault on the … Read more
Arizona Secretary of State (and 2022 gubernatorial candidate) Katie Hobbs has an op-ed in the Washington Post today. I’m leading the fight for voting rights in Arizona. We need the Senate to step up, now. – Are you listening now, Senator Kyrsten Sinema? Democracy is under siege in Arizona. As part of the “big lie” … Read more
The Washington Post reports, Republican-commissioned hand recount of ballots in Arizona close to concluding; no results expected until later this summer: A widely criticized hand recount of 2020 presidential ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona’s largest jurisdiction, is nearing completion, an official associated with the effort said Monday, but results from the process are not expected … Read more
In the United States, we have a secret ballot. No one can demand to know how you voted. The time for verification of voter registration status is before an election, not some seven months after an election has already been certified by state officials. And only by officials from a County Recorder’s Office. Third-party partisans … Read more
Ronald Browstein reports at The Atlantic, Democracy Is Already Dying in the States: While senator Joe Manchin is demanding that both parties agree on any further federal voting-rights legislation, a new study quantifies how completely Republicans have excluded Democrats from the passage of the restrictive voting laws proliferating in red states. In places such as … Read more