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   From: j_carlson@gmx.com   
      
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   On 2/26/2021 8:02 AM, David Hartung wrote:   
   > On 2/26/21 9:43 AM, Rudy Canoza wrote:   
   >> By Melanie MasonStaff Writer   
   >> Feb. 26, 2021 5 AM PT   
   >> PHOENIX —   
   >>   
   >> The national battle over voting restrictions was, for one sluggish February   
   >> afternoon, waged in a cramped hearing room of Arizona’s House of   
   >> Representatives. Separated by plexiglass barriers, Republican lawmakers   
   >> steadily plowed ahead on bills that, put together, could make it harder for   
   >> Arizonans to vote.   
   >>   
   >> Members of a House committee advanced a proposal to forbid the use of   
   private   
   >> money to help conduct elections, such as by buying equipment or funding   
   voter   
   >> education. They approved a bill making it a felony for an official to change   
   >> any election-related date set in statute. They OKd a measure to preemptively   
   >> forbid same-day voter registration, which the state does not currently   
   offer.   
   >   
   > These measure make sense, how exactly do they interfere with the ability of   
   > legal voters to cast a vote?   
   >   
   >> Each bill was portrayed by its proponents as a commonsense housekeeping   
   >> measure to guard against wrongdoing, or even the perception of it. Voting   
   >> rights advocates see a broader — and more damaging — agenda.   
   >>   
   >> “If you look at one of them, it may not seem that big a deal, but   
   there’s 50   
   >> or more of them,” Alex Gulotta, Arizona state director of All Voting is   
   Local,   
   >> said in an interview. “They all add up to changing our election system in   
   >> substantial ways to basically respond to the ‘Big Lie’” — that last   
   year’s   
   >> presidential election was stolen from former President Trump.   
   >>   
   >> Similar scenes are playing out in statehouses across the country, with a   
   >> barrage of voting restriction measures snaking through the legislative   
   process.   
   >>   
   >> Leading the way is Arizona, which has seen dozens of bills introduced this   
   >> year, the most of any state, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, a   
   >> think tank at New York University Law School.   
   >>   
   >> “There are legitimate concerns,” said GOP state Rep. John Kavanagh,   
   chair of   
   >> the Arizona House’s Government and Elections Committee, “and we’re   
   addressing   
   >> them.”   
   >>   
   >> Republicans championing these bills say they are necessary to restore faith   
   in   
   >> a system now widely seen by their constituents as suspect. Democrats counter   
   >> that the GOP is capitalizing on distrust they had fostered themselves.   
   >>   
   >> https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-02-26/arizona-vot   
   ng-restriction-bills   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Suppressing legitimate voters is what Republiscums do.  They know it's the   
   >> only way they can cheat their way to electoral wins.   
   >   
   > You have often made this accusation   
      
   And I have always supported it, as I did with this most recent post.   
      
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