The FBI recently raided the Fulton County Elections Bureau, seizing over 400 boxes of ballots from the 2020 election, which reaffirmed Biden’s victory in Georgia. The revived SAVE Act, under Republican proposal, poses significant barriers to voting, disproportionately affecting 21 million Americans lacking necessary identification. Historical voter suppression tactics targeting minority groups are now being reinforced through new legislation that restricts voting access. Despite claims of election fraud by Trump and his supporters, investigations have shown no widespread fraud existed in the 2020 election, highlighting ongoing challenges to voting rights facing Americans today.
Georgia Republicans, led by Governor Brian Kemp, have suppressed thousands of Georgia Democrat’s right to free and fair elections. This post explores how and what tactics they’ve used and what we can do to push back on them.
Today, I want to talk about the Republican threat. Republicans are the most serious threat to American democracy. The current effort by Republicans to deny and limit voting is a direct attack on liberal democracy.
Voting rights are on trial in the United States because of Donald Trump’s “Big Lie.” . Even though the 2020 election was “the most secure in American history,” democracy is under attack. The Big Lie undermined the confidence people have in the voting process.
The suppression of voting rights has been a project carried out against Black, brown and Native American voters for centuries. Suppression of the vote continues with hundreds of voter suppression bills making their way through state houses. In this post I provide a list of more than 30 ways Republicans aim to suppress the vote.
