Posted on 02/27/2022 10:32:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats are gearing up to spend record sums on lawyers, advertising and other protect-the-vote efforts before the 2022 midterm elections, hoping to stave off Republican efforts they believe will choke off access to the ballot box.
Worried that a spate of more restrictive voting laws adopted by Republican-controlled states will keep Democrats from registering their votes, donors big and small are filling their party's coffers.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) took in $157 million last year, the most for a year without a presidential election, and added $10 million more in January.
The party-wide effort includes both litigation to challenge laws like voter roll purges coupled with targeted outreach on digital platforms to register new voters and counter misinformation about voting as well as an effort to elect Democrats to often-overlooked election administration positions like secretaries of state.
"This is an all-hands-on-deck effort to ensure that every ballot is counted," said Representative Nikema Williams, a Democrat from Georgia spearheading the DCCC effort, adding that the investments were necessary to counter a "decades-long crusade" by Republicans to "suppress the vote."
"Democrats have a pretty expansive voter-protection operation," said Amir Badat, voting special counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a nonpartisan group that also engages in significant voting rights litigation.
Still, Badat said he expects new challenges this year.
He is concerned efforts by vigilantes who threatened voters and election officials in 2020 will expand, especially given new laws making it easier for poll watchers to observe voters. He sees the midterms as a dry run for the next presidential election.
"A lot of the things that happen in 2022 are going to be an experiment for what can be done in 2024, mostly from the point of what suppressive tactics can work," he said.
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That's a riot, Reuters.
Seriously they'll write anything - I guess there are a lot of people who read this stuff and actually believe it.
It’s all about votes for them. For us it’s about voters. 33% of people are stupid enough to think they are the same thing.
Libtards assemble cheat teams to combat voter integrity laws 🤪
Cheating is the only way they win.
They’ll win. Republicans are creampuffs.
“This is an all-hands-on-deck effort to ensure that every ballot is counted,” said Representative Nikema Williams, a Democrat from Georgia spearheading the DCCC effort, adding that the investments were necessary to counter a “decades-long crusade” by Republicans to “suppress the vote.”
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Not that every vote is legal, but that every ballot is counted.
Suppressing the votes of illegal and legal aliens voting illegally is what they are concerned with.
Protect the Vote/
Of, protect the MASS FRAUD?
Some of THE most important races this year are the Governorships of Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. If we can get real Republicans in, we can get some real election integrity laws with actual teeth passed in those 5 critical states.
I would much rather have the legislatures pass the laws and fight in court from the high ground.....ie the state can defend with public money while the Democrats will have to raise their own money. The election integrity laws passed by the legislature will enjoy a presumption of legality and the Democrats will have to say that election laws in these states somehow violate the US Constitution even though similar election laws in other states have already been found not to, etc.
Yep. Voter protection is actually stopping illegal votes from being cast/counted
Im surprised it’s not lawers guns and money given how behind the eightball they’ve put themselves
Do they want to do away with IDs for anything?
Do they want to do away with IDs for anything?
Don’t forget the Guns.
The Left’s old standby: lawfare.
Remove every RINO traitor who must face a primary this year, and voter integrity will be restored.
they are gearing up to fight for the right to cheat.
They want the vaxx ID, but it sure as hell isn't because they are concerned about people's health.
One of my favorite songwriters...
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