In a stunning show of the GOP’s intent to rig elections, a Wisconsin official said the party “can be especially proud of the City of Milwaukee casting 37,000 less votes [...] with the major reduction happening in overwhelming Black and Hispanic areas.”
plot to steal the 2020 election, has rebuffed the calls and says he stands by his comments.
Wisconsin advocacy group Black Leaders Organizing for Communities denounced Spindell’s comments. “Many of us have been sounding the alarm about how sinister voter suppression tactics have become, and Spindell’s comments reinforces what we already knew,” BLOCin a statement. “It is incredibly racist to brag about lowering Black and Brown turnout, it is also unacceptable to have these comments and views held by an election official.
Indeed, Spindell’s shockingly frank comments are just one of a string of statements made by Republicans who have openly called for less people to be able to cast a ballot or for the erosion of Democratic and left-leaning voters’ ability to vote in particular.“everybody shouldn’t be voting” when asked about the reasoning behind the wave of voter suppression laws being pushed by the GOP.
Meanwhile, shortly before the general election last year, Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels vowed that, if he were elected, he would block Democrats from ever winning an election again. “Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I’m elected governor,” he said. Michels ultimately lost to Democrat Tony Evers.
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