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Republican efforts to restrict v****g across the US are posing an existential threat to democracy in the US, over 100 scholars of democracy warned in a new statement released by the New America think tank on Tuesday.

"We, the undersigned, are scholars of democracy who have watched the recent deterioration of US e******ns and liberal democracy with growing alarm," the statement said. "Specifically, we have watched with deep concern as Republican-led state legislatures across the country have in recent months proposed or implemented what we consider radical changes to core e*******l procedures in response to unproven and intentionally destructive allegations of a s****n e******n."

The scholars said that the GOP-led initiatives "are t***sforming several states into political systems that no longer meet the minimum conditions for free and f**r e******ns."

"Our entire democracy is now at risk," the scholars said. "History will judge what we do at this moment."

The professors, deans, and other scholars who signed the statement come from a range of universities and institutions across the US, including Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Duke, and Stanford.

Over the past few years, and particularly since the fatal i**********n at the US Capitol on J****** 6, top scholars have repeatedly said that the GOP has morphed into a fundamentally antidemocratic party determined to win e******ns by any means.

Republican efforts to whitewash the events of J****** 6 and shield former President Donald Trump from blame for the r**t have increased alarm in this regard. Trump provoked the deadly i**********n and was impeached as a result, but Republican leaders have continued to kowtow to the former president.

"Elected Republican leaders have had numerous opportunities to repudiate Trump and his 'Stop the Steal' crusade, which led to the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on J****** 6," the scholars said in the new statement. "Each time, they have sidestepped the t***h and enabled the lie to spread."

Top Republicans across the US have refused to accept the results of the 2020 e******n, perpetuating the false notion that President Joe Biden did not legitimately win. There's no evidence of widespread v***r f***d in the 2020 p**********l e******n, and v***r f***d is extraordinarily rare in the US more generally.

Meanwhile, Republican-led legislatures nationwide have taken steps to make it harder to v**e. At least 14 states enacted 22 new laws that restrict access to the v**e between January 1 and mid-May, a tracker from Brennan Center for Justice showed.

The democracy scholars in the new statement on Tuesday condemned Republicans for rejecting the 2020 e******n results and for continuing to push for antidemocratic laws.

"These actions call into question whether the United States will remain a democracy," they said, referring to these recent actions as "a betrayal of our precious democratic heritage."

The scholars urged Congress to suspend the filibuster - and do wh**ever else is necessary - to pass national v****g and e******n-administration standards that would guarantee "the v**e to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want."

Read the original article on Business Insider.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-putting-americas-democracy-mortal-170124493.html

Michael10

Republicans don't care about Democracy and won't realize how they've been suckered until it's gone. I mean they thought trump was the greatest thing ever.

Liberty Tree

100 ELWNJS who h**e America as intended by its founders and who are the real threat.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Here’s a thought !
We all know this, stop telling us this every waking moment and do something about it.
First get Schumer out of there .
Second outlaw any non sanctioned m*****as.
Third abolish Citizens United.
4th. Let the people decide.
5th force every one to answer one question:
Who won the 2020 E******n ?
Wrong answers go to summer camp !

Similar to the Spanish Inquisition where you were asked what was your religion ?
Whereby the wrong answer may get your head lopped off.
Nothing that drastic.
Just summer camp.
I mean they’re not bad people only misinformed .

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Quick, everyone let’s run to the window to wave goodbye to....Democracy.
Welcome to Somalia !!!!!

Michael10

If you think what Republicans are doing with making v****g harder is what the founding fathers wanted, you got a screw loose. republican run states are trying to make it harder to v**e. period. I normally v**e early this year next year my district (considered Democrat) will loose 2 out of 3 early v****g stations. the district next to me (considered Republican) didn't loose a one. Strange how that works in a Red state.

Strycker Loc: The middle of somewhere else.

How is codifying some of the v****g rules set up under an emergency declaration during c***d be somehow restricting v****g rights? Without these v****g bills all the expanding emergency v****g rules would not be legal and would expire once the p******c emergency is declared over. Republicans are doing what is legally required. Democrats want the emergency powers to last forever to maintain their "liberal socialist democracy".

sabath

The liberal progressive c*******ts want to keep dead people v**es,double & triple v**es, destroy b****ts, moving v****g dead lines,mass mail in aps. thousands of v**ers with the same address, etc. tell me again who is destroying america !!!!!

Michael10

All the illegal v****g you've posted have been investigated and proved false. very little to no v***r f***d has been found and when it is, it's normally people v****g republican they find.
As far as who's destroying America,, Conservatives. attacking the capitol, talk of c**ps, a big lie about our e******n process. You people always gotta have a B******i to scream about and ignore the corruption in your own party. Everyone MUST think lock step with your beliefs or they are c*******ts. Give me a break.

F.D.R.

What would one expect, the 'scholars' are all l*****ts.

coelacanth Loc: Michigan swamp

older and wiser

The article was from people who are the second most distrusted group behind democrat politicians!

Wonttakeitanymore

The demonrats are the stolen authority blame them zombie!

older and wiser

Mickey, there has not been anything proven against the irregularities that happened to prove otherwise! Keep on LIEING, the democrats love useful i***ts!

Willy46 Loc: Lalland

Cornell, Princeton, etc.liberal s**t holes, every one of them,
that I would not have sent my kids to for free. And what is all this talk of "democracy" from these "scholars?" The last I heard the US is still a representative republic. Not a 50% plus 1 wins an e******n democracy.