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THE REAL FRAUDSTERS - The Republican Conspiracy to RIG THE VOTE
8 Feb 2023 8:21 am
They most certainly ARE. And here's an article that REVEALS the scam - how they've TRIED to use record voter turnout to COVER for the FACT THAT
THEIR JIM CROW LIKE VOTER SUPPRESSION EFFORTS HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DISENFRANCHISED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF BLACK AND HISPANIC VOTERS.
It’s No Coincidence That the Midterms Turned the Blackest Parts of America Red - The Nation
excerpts:
"While Democrats and progressives justifiably celebrated the humbling defeat of some of the most notorious election-denying Republican candidates in the 2022 midterms, the GOP campaign to quell and marginalize Black voters has only continued with an all-too-striking vigor.
In 2023, attacks on voting rights are melding with the increasingly authoritarian thrust of a Republican Party ever more aligned with far-right extremists and outright white supremacists.
While normally pretending that such laws were not raced-based but focused on—the phrases sound so positive and sensible—“voter integrity” or “election security,” on occasion GOP leaders and officials have revealed their real purpose.
A recent example was Republican Wisconsin Elections Commissioner Robert Spindell, one of three GOP appointees on the six-person commission that oversees that state’s elections. He openly bragged that the “well thought out multi-faceted plan” of the Republicans had resulted in a dramatic drop in Black voters in the 2022 midterm elections, including in Milwaukee, the state’s largest city, which is about 40 percent African American.
He wrote: “We can be especially proud of the City of Milwaukee (80.2% Dem Vote) casting 37,000 less votes than cast in the 2018 election with the major reduction happening in the overwhelming Black and Hispanic areas.”