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TexasTowelie

(116,765 posts) Mon May 24, 2021, 04:00 AM May 2021

Hearing For Bill To Change Laws On Early Voting, Drop Boxes Gets Contentious

A Republican-backed bill that would allow ballot dropboxes only at boards of elections for 10 days before the election and would shorten the window to request early ballots got its first hearing in a House committee.

Republicans in nearly all states have put forward election law changes after the 2020 vote. More votes were cast in Ohio in 2020 than ever before, and early voting numbers were historic too.

Reps. Bill Seitz (R-Cincinnati) and Sharon Ray (R-Medina) don’t dispute President Biden’s win and say Ohio, which went for former president Trump, had a fraud-free vote last year.

But the tension in the hearing on this new bill started early. After explaining his bill, Seitz noted Democrats, who are in the minority, have introduced their own proposals.

Read more: https://www.statenews.org/post/hearing-bill-change-laws-early-voting-drop-boxes-gets-contentious

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Hearing For Bill To Change Laws On Early Voting, Drop Boxes Gets Contentious (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2021 OP

It sux and keeps getting worse. eom sprinkleeninow May 2021 #1

It seems DENVERPOPS May 2021 #3

That's a good list! liberalla May 2021 #6

One more secessionist step in deconstructing a democratic process into restricted access. Ford_Prefect May 2021 #2

The Heritage Foundation is writing gab13by13 May 2021 #4

The drop box limits may hurt republican early voters more. JohnnyRingo May 2021 #5

sprinkleeninow

(20,546 posts)

1. It sux and keeps getting worse. eom

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon May 24, 2021, 04:39 AM

May 2021

DENVERPOPS

(9,951 posts)

3. It seems

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Reply #1)

Mon May 24, 2021, 06:55 AM

May 2021

that the RepubliCON party knows no other way than to cheat on the elections.

They should make it part of their platform!

Every time I read or hear some vomitous bile come out of a Repub's mouth I bounce it off my personal 1 - 2 - 3

#1) It is a flagrant lie

#2) It is pure hypocrisy

#3) It is 180 degrees from the truth or reality........

liberalla

(10,018 posts)

6. That's a good list!

Reply to DENVERPOPS (Reply #3)

Mon May 24, 2021, 10:37 AM

May 2021

Ford_Prefect

(8,202 posts)

2. One more secessionist step in deconstructing a democratic process into restricted access.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon May 24, 2021, 06:53 AM

May 2021

This goes well beyond redefining Ketchup as a vegetable in the scheme of re-labeling and reordering one-person-one vote into "only those votes and voters WE approve of."

gab13by13

(25,232 posts)

4. The Heritage Foundation is writing

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon May 24, 2021, 07:00 AM

May 2021

the voting suppression, who certifies the vote laws for all the states.

JohnnyRingo

(19,309 posts)

5. The drop box limits may hurt republican early voters more.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon May 24, 2021, 07:51 AM

May 2021

In my county, about 90% of minorities live within 3 or 4 miles of the BOE. That leaves the suburbs to go without, requiring a 10 mile drive to drop off ballots. Rural voters would suffer access the most, and we know how they vote.

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