If You Can’t Win Cheat!

That is the Republican motto.

They are monkeying with our election system to make it harder for those who do not likely vote Republicans.

GOP-led voting changes are on the rise, making elections more vulnerable to meddling, many analysts say
Republicans say they want security, but some voting advocates worry for access.
ABC News
By Isabella Murray
September 20, 2022

There's a tension between voter access and voting security, but that balance has been tipping decidedly one way in the recent political environment in which false claims that Trump didn't lose the 2020 election have muddied the waters, according to many experts who are raising alarms about proposed election-related laws.

Since the last presidential election, conservative state legislators across the country have enacted or introduced a flurry of bills that would increase restrictions to the election system -- with a focus, in 2022, on changing how races are run and regulated -- according to several nonpartisan organizations who describe themselves as advocating for democracy.

Experts from the States United Democracy Center, the Brennan Center for Justice and other groups who spoke with ABC News tied this growing amount of legislation to the false election fraud allegations that Donald Trump and his supporters' have been spreading since Joe Biden's victory in 2020.

Since Trump was defeated by Biden, Trump has continued to claim -- without evidence -- that his election was marred by ineligible voters, fake votes cast by mail and other problems.

We don’t want those undesirables to vote, you know the types… Blacks, gays, liberals, the young, etc. etc.

Republicans Face Setbacks in Push to Tighten Voting Laws on College Campuses
Party officials across the country have sought to erect more barriers for young voters, who tilt heavily Democratic, after several cycles in which their turnout surged.
New York Times
By Neil Vigdor
March 29, 2023

Alarmed over young people increasingly proving to be a force for Democrats at the ballot box, Republican lawmakers in a number of states have been trying to enact new obstacles to voting for college students.

In Idaho, Republicans used their power monopoly this month to ban student ID cards as a form of voter identification.

But so far this year, the new Idaho law is one of few successes for Republicans targeting young voters.

Attempts to cordon off out-of-state students from voting in their campus towns or to roll back preregistration for teenagers have failed in New Hampshire and Virginia. Even in Texas, where 2019 legislation shuttered early voting sites on many college campuses, a new proposal that would eliminate all college polling places seems to have an uncertain future.

We can’t have those young kids voting, they think for themselves and don’t vote as they are told to vote!

Report shows the extent of Republican efforts to sabotage democracy
Research identifies at least 262 bills were introduced in 41 states this year with the intent to hijack the election process
The Guardian
By Ed Pilkington
24 Dec 2021

The Republican assault on free and fair elections instigated by Donald Trump is gathering pace, with efforts to sabotage the normal workings of American democracy sweeping state legislatures across the US.

A year that began with the violent insurrection at the US Capitol is ending with an unprecedented push to politicize, criminalize or in other ways subvert the nonpartisan administration of elections. A year-end report from pro-democracy groups identifies no fewer than 262 bills introduced in 41 states that hijack the election process.

Of those, 32 bills have become law in 17 states.

The largest number of bills is concentrated in precisely those states that became the focus of Trump’s Stop the Steal campaign to block the peaceful transfer of power after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. Arizona, where Trump supporters insisted on an “audit” to challenge Biden’s victory in the state, has introduced 20 subversion bills, and Georgia where Trump attempted to browbeat the top election official to find extra votes for him has introduced 15 bills.

Texas, whose ultra-right Republican group has made the state the ground zero of voter suppression and election interference, has introduced as many as 59 bills.

“We’re seeing an effort to hijack elections in this country, and ultimately, to take power away from the American people. If we don’t want politicians deciding our elections, we all need to start paying attention,” said Joanna Lydgate, CEO of the States United Democracy Center which is one of the three groups behind the report. Protect Democracy and Law Forward also participated.

One of the key ways that Trump-inspired state lawmakers have tried to sabotage future elections is by changing the rules to give legislatures control over vote counts. In Pennsylvania, a bill passed in the wake of Trump’s defeat that sought to rewrite the state’s election law was vetoed by Democratic governor Tom Wolf.

Now where else have we seen this voter suppression?

Putin’s plan to control remote Siberian region goes awry
The Kremlin is now looking to cancel the governorship election after president’s chosen man quit following poor ratings
The Telegraph
By James Kilner
2 September 2023

Vladimir Putin’s party is facing a battle to win back one of the only regions in Russia it does not control after its candidate for next week’s local election quit following a poll showing he would lose.

Unable to stuff ballots in the remote Khakassia region in southern Siberia, the Kremlin is now looking to cancel the governorship election entirely, according to Russian opposition media.

Analysts said that the Kremlin’s failure to manage the election showed that its messaging was not getting through and its war in Ukraine was not as popular as it hoped.

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One of the most glaring of these has been Valentin Konovalov’s governorship of Khakassia, a sparsely populated region known for its natural beauty. It is a five-hour flight from Moscow.

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The Kremlin tried to derail Mr Konovalov’s victory in 2018 by repeatedly cancelling a second round of voting until it decided to relent and instead revenge the humiliation at this year’s regional elections.

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Medusa, a Russian opposition website, said that with its election plan in tatters, the Kremlin now wanted to cancel the governorship election in Khakassia.

It quoted sources saying that officials had been sent from Moscow to find alleged voter fraud and pressure all the candidates to pull out, allowing the Kremlin to appoint a governor.

Do you think that the Republicans are trying to follow in Putin footstep here? The Republicans fight dirty, they will lie, cheat, change the laws to keep them in power.

P.S. Valentin Konovalov better have his life insurance paid up… opponents of Putin have a habit of dying early.