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It's as depressing as I thought:
One law would eliminate the governor's power to appoint the State Board of Elections and give it to legislative leaders, while the other would end a three-day grace period to receive and count absentee ballots as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.
The omnibus measure also prohibits officials from accepting private money to administer elections and directs state courts to inform elections officials about potential jurors being disqualified because they aren't U.S. citizens, so they can then be removed from voter rolls.
The first one is terrible.
But I don't understand the problem with the second. What am I missing here?
They're still angry about democrats being able to vote by mail rather than stand in line for three days in the one polling station the republicans allow for the entire states urban population.
What the person below says and it explains it more in the NPR article I linked, that's why I called it a good source.
I totally missed that link, thanks.
Republicans will never stop trying to steal elections
More like trying to destroy democracy entirely. Stealing an election here and there doesn't get them hard anymore.
On that one small issue I would be able to see their point, if they hadn’t spent the last three years proving that they will do everything in their power to overrule democracy.
The only way they got that supermajority was by cheating, and they know they have to cheat more to keep it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The bills promise to affect the swing state’s presidential election next year, though litigation is expected and could delay or block the implementation of challenged provisions.
In interviews earlier this year, advocates said they were most concerned about Senate Bill 749, which will rework the composition of state and local election boards, the five-person bodies that oversee democratic operations and certify election results.
“It also creates a grave risk that Republican legislators or courts would be empowered to change the results of an election if they don’t like the winner.
If county or state election boards do not approve early voting sites and schedules in accordance with state law, early voting can only take place at the county board of elections office.
In populous counties, that could leave hundreds of thousands of voters with just one early voting option.
“If this rule had been implemented in 2020, it would have led to 11,000 votes being tossed, so especially going into a presidential election, it’s no small thing,” said Megan Bellamy, a vice president at the Voting Rights Lab, a nonpartisan group that tracks election legislation.
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