GOP Anti-Voting Lawsuits Increase Nearly Five-Fold in 2022

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  1. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    New analysis by Democracy Docket reveals a steep jump in voting and election lawsuits filed by Republican-affiliated groups so far this year when compared to 2021. Democracy Docket is the leading platform dedicated to covering and tracking democracy-related activity in the courts and has a comprehensive database of nearly 400 democracy-related lawsuits filed since 2020.

    Our database reveals a compelling trend — a marked increase in GOP lawsuits in the voting and elections sphere since January of this year.

    • In 2021, GOP-affiliated groups and individuals filed seven lawsuits, accounting for 13% of the total voting cases we tracked in 2021.
    • In contrast, as of Sept. 16, 2022, GOP-affiliated groups have filed 41 lawsuits, accounting for nearly 54% of all voting cases we tracked in 2022.
    The number of lawsuits filed by Democratic-aligned organizations and other groups remained relatively constant when comparing this year and last (35 so far in 2022 and 45 in 2021), although there has been a jump in the total voting cases between years (76 so far in 2022 and 52 in 2021). This difference is explained by an increase in GOP activity in the courts (41 lawsuits so far in 2022 and seven in 2021).
    https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/gop-anti-voting-lawsuits-increase-nearly-five-fold-in-2022/

    This is the price we are paying for the POT's obstruction of the national election reform bill. In AZ Repubs proposed a bill that would end mail-in voting.
    https://www.businessinsider.com/ari...t-republican-effort-ban-mail-in-voting-2022-6

    And there's this..........
    In July, pro-democracy activists in Arizona submitted more than 475,000 signatures — twice the amount required by law — to put the Arizona Fair Elections Act on the November election ballot. What happened next was not just a miscarriage of justice, but a canary in the proverbial coal mine for Republicans’ war on American democracy. And it was a terrifying reminder of why Democrats need to get serious about expanding the U.S. Supreme Court before it’s too late.

    The proposed ballot measure would have reversed a recent spate of voter suppression laws, diluted the influence of lobbyists and special interests and prevented politicians from overturning election results. Unsurprisingly, it drew the ire of Republican Gov. Doug Ducey and the state’s entire GOP infrastructure.

    By the time the legal dust settled at the end of August, the Republican-packed Arizona Supreme Court had thrown out more than half of the submitted signatures. With no explanation of its math, the court erased the voices of hundreds of thousands of voters, rendering the measure a mere 1,458 signatures shy of the qualification threshold.

    https://www.democracydocket.com/opi...is-canary-in-the-coal-mine-for-u-s-democracy/

    Make no mistake. Things are getting worse. Anti-democracy Repubs are on the march across the country. They must be stopped.
     
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  2. straight ahead

    straight ahead Well-Known Member

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    Voting should be done on Election Day.

    All these Democratic schemes are pushed by them to increase voter fraud in their favor.

    There is no other reason.
     
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