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   From: j_carlson@gmx.com   
      
   [followups vandalism by shitbag *LYING* pastor-to-the-KKK repaired]   
      
   On 2/26/2021 9:52 AM, David Hartung wrote:   
   > On 2/26/21 10:12 AM, Rudy Canoza wrote:   
   >> [followups vandalism by shitbag *LYING* pastor-to-the-KKK repaired]   
   >>   
   >> 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-v   
   ting-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.   
   >   
   > I see nothing in the article which supports your assertion   
      
   Yes, you do.  You're lying and pretending you don't see it, but you see it.   
      
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