Federal judges in Georgia and Texas have ruled against key provisions of two controversial election laws passed two years ago as the Republican Party sought to tighten voting rules after former President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential contest.
U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez struck down a provision of Texas’ law requiring that mail voters provide the same identification number they used when they registered to vote. He ruled the requirement violated the U.S. Civil Rights Act because it led to people being unable to cast ballots due to a matter irrelevant to whether they are registered.
The change led to skyrocketing mail ballot rejections in the first election after the law passed in September 2021 and was targeted in a lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The GOP is in panic mode. It’s already mathematically impossible for them to ever win the popular vote ever again, and the chances of winning the electoral college is slim. So they are forced to do election fraud to even have a chance. (voter ID laws and purging voter rolls is a form of election fraud.)
Texas is particularly important. It’s their electoral counter balance against California’s machine number of electoral votes. If Texas ever durably flips blue, there will never be a Republican President again and they will be very unlikely to win the senate.
Or if Florida ever flips back, but that seems less likely somehow
I was born and live in Florida. This state has changed a lot in the past decade. We’ve had a massive influx of people moving here from other states, changing the political landscape to lean more conservative. Just years ago, my city had a huge Pride Parade that everyone was cool with. Now, we can’t say gay at school. I doubt it will flip back to blue anytime soon.
They’ve been struggling for years, their platform is bad and can’t be spun to sound that good.
Trump was the start of the end honestly
I told a supervisor sometime in 2021 that we’ll never have another Republican president. I was in a super rural, supermajority republican area, and none of them would believe me. I think Trump was the warning ‘moderates’ and lazy voters needed.
The electoral college is going to see you lose that bet. Trump lost by about 81,000 votes. Anyone getting complacent and thinking the GOP is done are going to get blindsided. It is going to be very close this time and for many times to come.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/elections/vote-margin-of-victory/
We’ll have to agree to disagree. Complacency could see a repub president again, but with swelling gen Z, dying boomers, and a soon to be swung Texas (if they don’t throw out the big cities’ votes, like they’re trying), I think we’ll be solid.
Trump wasn’t that far from a victory really in 2020 If they nominate someone more moderate they can win
that moderate would have to win in the Republican primaries, which will be difficult with the MAGA crowd. it’s kinda funny that Republicans insist on shooting themselves in the foot, then blame Democrats. they’re a real life caricature.
I definitely hope you’re right.
Nah, we’ll get lazy again. Just how people are