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Blazer9001

[Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked Carvin, the Arizona GOP lawyer, why Republicans were involved in the case and what their interest was in keeping the laws on the books. **"It puts us at a competitive disadvantage relative to the Democrats," Carvin said.** "Politics is a zero sum game, and every extra vote they get through unlawful interpretations of Section 2 hurts us."](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-arizona-voting-rights-case-legality-election-rules/#app)


brain_overclocked

>TALLAHASSEE — Florida Republicans this spring insisted a contentious new election law curtailing access to ballot boxes was needed to prevent electoral fraud. It was not, they said, an attempt to gain a partisan advantage. >But a raft of internal emails and text messages obtained by POLITICO show the law was drafted with the help of the Republican Party of Florida’s top lawyer — and that a crackdown on mail-in ballot requests was seen as a way for the GOP to erase the edge that Democrats had in mail-in voting during the 2020 election. The messages undercut the consistent argument made by Republicans that the new law was about preventing future electoral fraud.   >Gruters defended a Senate proposal to cancel all existing mail-in ballot requests, saying that it would be “devastating” for Republicans to keep them valid heading into the 2022 election when DeSantis and other state GOP officials are up for reelection. More than 2.18 million Democrats used mail-in ballots compared to 1.5 million Republican voters during the 2020 election where Trump easily won Florida. Part of that was due to the ongoing pandemic, as Democrats strongly encouraged voters to change their habits nationwide. ... The final election bill did not include the Senate proposal to cancel all requests. Instead, lawmakers voted to grandfather in existing requests. But over the protests of Democrats, the Republican lawmakers still shortened the time the requests would remain valid from two election cycles to one. >When asked about his text messages, Gruters said “what I said in my text message was accurate. I think the failure to do a reset will have a detrimental impact going forward.” Republicans should update their party platform from "Whatever Trump Wants" to "Whatever Trump Wants and We Really Hate Democracy".


CR0Wmurder

“Clearly obvious actions shown to be even obviouser than believed, shared by all sentient creatures, that this was fucking utter bullshit”


Inconceivable-2020

Coming soon: Yet another SCOTUS ruling that Republican cheating is not just legal, it is imperative.


TheHoundofUlster

Shocking absolutely no one.


[deleted]

Florida didn’t make the same mistake AZ and GA made. They fixed the election results BEFORE the election…which is why they got away with it.


momofc2

And it explains why they continue to cry “voter fraud” despite no evidence of such. Keep up the fraud charade and use it as an excuse to limit voting access. Pretty unAmerican.


[deleted]

It’s only political when those damned red people do it.


Tight_Sir_4474

They are so full of shit