Bagley cartoon, Salt Lake Tribune (fair use)

ONE dropbox for ~5 million people, in Houston?  Thank you Governor Abbott for “protecting the vote”.  But the voters, nah!

EXCERPT:

Directives from Ohio secretary of state, Frank LaRose, and Texas governor, Greg Abbott – both Republicans – limit drop boxes to one per county. In Harris county, Texas, home to Houston, that’s one box for 4.7 million people. For the 228,000 residents in more sparse Mahoning county, a single drop box could result in a lengthy trip to the board of elections. In stark contrast, for the 2.3 million residents of King county in greater Seattle, there are 73  24-hour drop boxes within easy reach of voters.  Click for Guardian article.

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“For the past few days, some New Yorkers have been forced to stand in line for four or five hours to cast their ballots.
But across the country, the group most responsible for making voting harder, if not impossible, for millions of Americans is the Republican Party.  Republicans have been saying it themselves for ages. “I don’t want everybody to vote,” Paul Weyrich, a leader of the modern conservative movement, told a gathering of religious leaders in 1980. “As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”
This strategy has become a central pillar of the G.O.P. platform.  [ . . . ]
The second bill would, among other things, create a national voter-registration program; make it harder for states to purge voting rolls; and take gerrymandering away from self-interested state legislatures, putting the redistricting process in the hands of nonpartisan commissions.
The House of Representatives passed both of these bills in 2019, with all Democrats voting in favor both times. The Voting Rights Amendment Act got the vote of a single House Republican. H.R. 1 got none. The Republican-led Senate has refused to act on either.  [ . . . ]   When more people vote, Republicans lose.”  SOURCE.

Cartoon by John Cole , York Dispatch (fair use)

VOTE REPUBLICAN IF YOU HATE DEMOCRACY

US Senator Mike Lee is proof that Republicans hate democracy.

I defended America for four years, for this?