Authors 🍑🏴R.S. WEAR A DAMN MASK Powers🏴🍑
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🧵 These measures are absolutely unnecessary. Georgia already has some of the most strict voting laws in the country. Besides, the laws we have in place WORKED brilliantly. There was absolutely no fraud outside of the minuscule norms. #gapol
Republicans adding onerous laws just to make themselves feel better and disenfranchise voters by making it more difficult to vote is unacceptable. It’s also massively hypocritical. Just like we always hear in the #gunrights arguments. 2/ #gapol
Why should I as a law abiding citizen be burdened by adding unnecessary restrictions to a process that is my Constitutionally protected right? Especially when the data do not back up the need for any new laws. A fact to which our state election officials would attest. 3/ #gapol
#JimCrow Why anyone would choose to make it more difficult to vote is beyond me. I should point out that the current restrictive voting laws were put in place by the @GaRepublicans, including no excuse #absenteeballots. 4/
State election officials crowed about how 1.3 million Georgians who voted from home during the coronavirus pandemic, and they should. They did a fine job. But now, simply because the party took losses due to a lack of their voters turning out (their own fault) ... 5/ #gapol
Georgia is at the center of the effort, with Republicans discussing a sweep of new policies after Biden won the state -- and @GovKemp endorsing new photo ID requirements for absentee ballots. #gapol https://t.co/05FSLXlDy6
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) January 24, 2021
Republicans adding onerous laws just to make themselves feel better and disenfranchise voters by making it more difficult to vote is unacceptable. It’s also massively hypocritical. Just like we always hear in the #gunrights arguments. 2/ #gapol
Why should I as a law abiding citizen be burdened by adding unnecessary restrictions to a process that is my Constitutionally protected right? Especially when the data do not back up the need for any new laws. A fact to which our state election officials would attest. 3/ #gapol
#JimCrow Why anyone would choose to make it more difficult to vote is beyond me. I should point out that the current restrictive voting laws were put in place by the @GaRepublicans, including no excuse #absenteeballots. 4/
State election officials crowed about how 1.3 million Georgians who voted from home during the coronavirus pandemic, and they should. They did a fine job. But now, simply because the party took losses due to a lack of their voters turning out (their own fault) ... 5/ #gapol