Protect the vote

 The advocacy group Common Cause warned in a new report, Extremists' Plot to Nationalize Voter Suppression: 2023 and Beyond, that U.S. congressional Republicans are introducing dozens of bills that, if the GOP regains control of Congress after the midterm elections, pose a "serious threat to the freedom to vote for millions of Americans."

"Although significant attention has focused on the more than 400 anti-voter bills that have been introduced (several dozen of which have become law) in state legislatures...congressional Republicans have introduced more than 30 [federal] anti-voter bills that have largely gone unnoticed."

 "While none of these federal anti-voter bills will become law this year, if control of Congress switches after this November's election, a Congress with different leadership may try to advance some of these proposals and do at the federal level what self-interested, power-hungry legislators in certain states are trying to do: make it harder to vote, and in ways that are disproportionately targeted at Black and Brown voters."

"Instead of silencing voters on a state-by-state basis, members of Congress introducing these anti-voter bills may try to disenfranchise certain voters in one fell swoop," Sylvia Albert, Common Cause's director of voting and elections and one of the report's authors, said in a statement.

• Eliminate the National Voter Registration Act (aka the "motor-voter" law);
• Prohibit states from counting a ballot cast in a federal election if it is received by the state after the date of the election, regardless if the ballot was completed and mailed by Election Day;
• Prohibit states from using automatic voter registration systems;
• Prohibit states from providing absentee ballots to many voters; 
• Restrict the use of drop boxes for absentee ballots;
• Block many Americans from no-excuse absentee voting;
• Prevent most individuals from voting at a polling place during an early voting period;
• Significantly curtail the Election Assistance Commission’s (EAC) ability to provide investments to states to help run safe and secure elections; and
• Relitigate the 2020 presidential election by establishing a commission to investigate the results of an election that Trump's own appointees at the Department of Homeland Security declared was the "most secure in American history."

Report Details ‘Extremist’ GOP Plot to Nationalize Voter Suppression (commondreams.org)