GOP state lawmakers in battlegrounds have proposed new restrictions on voting such as banning mail ballots or adding new rules to cast ballots by mail, such as cutting back the availability of ballot drop boxes. DemocracyDay
on results, and turn back the clock on election advances such as early voting and machine counting of ballots.state Rep. John Fillmore, a Republican who introduced the bill. That was a period before the passage of federal civil rights laws and the Voting Rights Act.
Republican sponsors of the election bills say they want to reduce the chance of voter fraud, but concern about fraud alone doesn’t explain the quick clampdown since the 2020 election, whichsaid was the most secure ever. The current proposals follow another raft of laws enacted in several Republican-led battleground states in 2021 that restricted voting by mail, tightened ID requirements and empowered partisan officials — on the premise of combating voter fraud.
State Rep. Mark Finchem, Trump’s endorsed candidate for secretary of state, is one of the co-sponsors.
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