GOP Controlled States Pass Voter Restrictions
Arizona is latest state to pass restrictive voter laws ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. This is a direct attack on American multi-racial democracy by a Republican Party that has fully embraced Trump’s Big Lie. So far this year 8 Republican controlled states have passed voting restrictions laws in an attempt to disenfranchise millions of black and brown voters.
The Supreme Court made the GOP’s new voting restrictions possible, Vox | 05/08/2021
By Ian Millhiser
On Thursday morning, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed legislation that restricts absentee voting, discourages voters from registering through voter registration campaigns, and potentially prohibits volunteers from giving food and water to voters waiting in line to cast their ballot.
Many provisions of this new Florida law mirror similar provisions in a Georgia voter suppression bill that became law last March. The Georgia law also takes aim at absentee voting, among other things, but its most troubling provision allows the state’s Republican-controlled legislature to effectively take over county election boards — boards that have the power to disqualify voters and to close polling places.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, left, talks with Chief Justice John Roberts on the steps of the Supreme Court following Gorsuch’s official investiture at the Supreme Court in 2017. | Win McNamee/Getty Images