M. Garland: It is time for Congress to act again to protect the right to vote(washingtonpost.com)
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M. Garland: It is time for Congress to act again to protect the right to vote
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/05/merrick-garland-voting-rights-act-anniversary-congress/
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When you see it's from WaPo, there's always an excellent chance that it's propaganda that serves the establishment, and this seems to be yet another example of that. There's no ongoing effort to disenfranchise eligible voters; there's an ongoing effort to count legal votes and not count illegal votes.
Felons can't vote; those under 18 can't vote; those who already voted somewhere else can't vote; you can't vote if you put your address down as a post office box or an empty parking lot; you can't falsely claim to be indefinitely confined and vote by mail; if you do vote by mail, there are procedures that have to be followed, things like verification that the ballot was actually sent out, verification of the signature, etc.
But all of those rules and many more were broken during the last presidential election, which made a lot of people wonder if we actually put the correct man in office, which in turn is why we're seeing this dishonest article today.
Felons can't vote; those under 18 can't vote; those who already voted somewhere else can't vote; you can't vote if you put your address down as a post office box or an empty parking lot; you can't falsely claim to be indefinitely confined and vote by mail; if you do vote by mail, there are procedures that have to be followed, things like verification that the ballot was actually sent out, verification of the signature, etc.
But all of those rules and many more were broken during the last presidential election, which made a lot of people wonder if we actually put the correct man in office, which in turn is why we're seeing this dishonest article today.
In part because Garland is ultraconservative, and he's inclined to not rock the boat for the four years he gets before trump fires him, or he pulls a Rosenstein and does whatever trump wants.
The situation is so extreme that garland knows Biden can't win in 2024, even a supermajority of the population wanted him to.