Guardian: US democracy on the brink: Republicans wage 'coordinated onslaught' on voting rights

[erronis]

This is such an important article. Please read/comment/recommend to others.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/24/democracy-under-attack-america-us-voting-rights-republicans

Seizing on Donald Trump’s lies about fraud in the 2020 election, Republicans have launched a brazen attack on voting, part of an effort to entrench control over a rapidly changing electorate by changing the rules of democracy. As of mid-February, 253 bills were pending to restrict voting in 43 states. Many of those restrictions take direct aim at mail-in and early voting, the very policies that led to November’s record turnout.

“The fragility of democracy has been exposed at levels that I think even white America was blind to,” said Brown, a co-founder of Black Voters Matter.

Republicans have openly talked about their intentions. “Everybody shouldn’t be voting,” John Kavanagh, a Republican in the Arizona state legislature, told CNN earlier this month. “Quantity is important, but we have to look at the quality of votes, as well.”

[triron]

1. And Manchin doesn't give a shit.

[BComplex]

3. Manchin, because he doesn't give a shit, is complicit.

And I'm pretty sick of him. We need MORE democratic senators to overcome the conservatives in our ranks.

[triron]

6. Without HR1 that becomes exponentially more difficult.

[BComplex]

9. Exactly! Plus it creates another generation of republican rule in this country

that, I'm afraid at this point, will mean the end of our democracy. The republicans have been on a steady trajectory toward fascism.

[triron]

10. Either Manchin doesn't care or is blind to this.

[dickthegrouch]

2. In that case quality of the candidates is also fair game /nt

[monkeyman1]

4. we don't have to worry - rudy is on the job for the republican's

[SheltieLover]

5. K&R!

[ck4829]

7. K&R

[Martin Eden]

8. They don't appeal to voters, so they try to repeal voters

... under the guise of "protecting" the integrity of the vote.

What they're really trying to do, of course, is protect the whiteness of the vote.