{"id":4353,"date":"2021-02-01T18:39:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T18:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2021-02-01T18:39:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T18:39:47","slug":"state-gops-have-already-introduced-dozens-of-bills-restricting-voting-access-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4353","title":{"rendered":"State GOPs have already introduced dozens of bills restricting voting access in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;State legislators in 28 states have filed 106 bills restricting the franchisethus far in 2021 \u2014 and the overwhelming majority have come from Republicans. Compare that to last year at this time: Then, only 35 such bills had been filed in six states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing a backlash,\u201d says Eliza Sweren-Becker, the report\u2019s lead author. \u201cRather than going out and trying to persuade voters, we\u2019re seeing legislators trying to shrink the electorate in order to ensure job security for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposed legislation largely falls into two categories: bills that either increase the difficulties individual Americans would face absentee voting or that give officials greater leeway to shrink the voter pool. Some are attempts toroll back voting rights expansions necessitated by the pandemic; othersareretreads of policies Republicans have pushed before, like expanded voter identification laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22254482\/republicans-voter-suppression-state-legislatures\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22254482\/republicans-voter-suppression-state-legislatures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;State legislators in 28 states have filed 106 bills restricting the franchise thus far in 2021 \u2014 and the overwhelming majority have come from Republicans. Compare that to last year at this time: Then, only 35 such bills had been filed in six states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing a backlash,\u201d says Eliza Sweren-Becker, the report\u2019s lead author. \u201cRather than going out and trying to persuade voters, we\u2019re seeing legislators trying to shrink the electorate in order to ensure job security for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proposed legislation largely falls into two categories: bills that either increase the difficulties individual Americans would face absentee voting or that give officials greater leeway to shrink the voter pool. Some are attempts to roll back voting rights expansions necessitated by the pandemic; others are retreads of policies Republicans have pushed before, like expanded voter identification laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[431,968,714,712,479],"class_list":["post-4353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democracy","tag-republican-party","tag-voter-fraud","tag-voter-id","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4354,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}