Georgia House passes GOP bill rolling back voting access
Republicans in the Georgia House of Representatives have passed a bill which restricts voting access. The bill requires a photo ID for absentee voting, limits the amount of time voters have to request an absentee ballot, restricts where ballot drop boxes could be located and when they could be accessed, and limits early voting hours on weekends. Republicans claim the bill is needed to restore voters’ trust in the electoral process, but this argument is based on the disproven claim that significant voter fraud
Trump’s Baseless 2020 Conspiracies Complicate Ohio Effort To Buy Voting Machines
Election officials in Stark County, Ohio, are facing pushback for their decision to purchase new voting machines from Dominion. The pushback is coming from constituents who believe the baseless conspiracy theory—pushed fervently by former president Trump and his associates—that Dominion voting machines changed votes from Trump to Biden during the 2020 election. County commissioners are still reviewing the contract with Dominion and could reach a decision by the end of March.Visit the NPR to learn more. Voter Education Week Young adults will be the nation’s largest
Election fraud conspiracy theories find a friendly audience at CPAC
The annual Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference was held in Orlando this year. Speakers throughout the conference repeated false and disproven claims of voter fraud and allegations that the 2020 election was rigged in favor of Joe Biden. The climax of the conference was a 90 minute speech by former president Trump (his first public speech since leaving office) in which he repeated many of the false and misleading claims and called for reforms which would make it harder to vote.Visit the NBC
Why Republicans Are Moving To Fix Elections That Weren’t Broken
Lawmakers (primarily Republican) in 43 states are considering over 250 bills which would raise barriers to voting in response to the false and disproven claim that there was significant voter fraud during the 2020 election. Republican lawmakers signaled before the 2020 election was even over that they would attempt to curtail ways to extend and expand voting access, especially mail-in voting. Still, there are some Republicans who are wary of efforts to reform voting laws on the basis of the disproven 2020 election fraud
GOP state lawmakers and election officials launch commission to examine voting laws
The Republican State Leadership Committee has announced that GOP lawmakers and secretaries of state will form a commission to look at election laws. The commission will focus on voter roll accuracy, absentee or mail-in voting, and the process for counting ballots that are received by Election Day. Republicans behind the plan say they are responding to constituent concerns over the safety and integrity of the ballot. Democrats say that the commission is a coordinated attempt at voter suppression.Visit the CNN to learn more.Image credit: