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Diamond_Dog

(35,009 posts)
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 08:43 AM Jan 2023

GOP action on mail ballot timelines angers military families

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's restrictive new election law significantly shortens the window for mailed ballots to be received — despite no evidence that the extended timeline has led to fraud or any other problems — and that change is angering active-duty members of the military and their families because of its potential to disenfranchise them.

The pace of ballot counting after Election Day has become a target of conservatives egged on by former President Donald Trump. He has promoted a false narrative since losing the 2020 election that fluctuating results as late-arriving mail-in ballots are tallied is a sign of fraud.

Republican lawmakers said during debate on the Ohio legislation that even if Trump's claims aren't true, the skepticism they have caused among conservatives about the accuracy of election results justifies imposing new limits.

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“What kind of society do we call ourselves if we are disenfranchising people from the rights that they are over there protecting?” said Willis Gordon, a Navy veteran and veterans affairs chair of the Ohio NAACP’s executive committee.

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https://www.wfmj.com/story/48196131/gop-action-on-mail-ballot-timelines-angers-military-families

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GOP action on mail ballot timelines angers military families (Original Post) Diamond_Dog Jan 2023 OP
This is a BFD whether corporate media agree or not EYESORE 9001 Jan 2023 #1
I agree wholeheartedly, EYESORE 9001. Diamond_Dog Jan 2023 #2

EYESORE 9001

(27,578 posts)
1. This is a BFD whether corporate media agree or not
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 08:57 AM
Jan 2023

This is an opportunity to reach folks who may be otherwise apolitical. It’s hard to come up with anything more antiAmerican than denying service members in the armed forces the right to vote. It resonates with people whether they have family in the military or not.

Diamond_Dog

(35,009 posts)
2. I agree wholeheartedly, EYESORE 9001.
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 09:05 AM
Jan 2023

Republicans claiming they support our military is such utter bullshit.

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