The legislation will make it to the senate floor this week, but it doesn't have much chance of passing. While democrats pick at the rules for voting, republicans have been focusing their efforts on who does the counting and the ing of those votes. President joe bidon flew to georgia, he delivered a strident speech arguing that republicans are returning to the dark days of the pre civil rights era. In order to fight this, you ought to be the side of abraham lincoln or jefferson davis. This is the moment to decide to defend our elections, to defend our democracy.
Democrats will spend the week battling for a tightening of laws on casting votes; that will
overshadow Republicans’ worrying push into how those votes are counted and certified. Earthquakes remain damnably unpredictable, but
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