FEC United operating in Colorado and Michigan; has ties to Mike Lindell and Kash Patel
Liberty Center for God and Country operates in Texas to challenge voter rolls
Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona (aka EZAZ), is engaged in voter roll challenges or suppression-type activity
Wisconsin Voters Alliance and Wisconsin Center for Election Justice used methods like change-of-address data to target voters for removal; their tactics were questioned by election experts.
Georgia Nerds: one member challenged over 1,000 voters in Chatham County alone.
Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE) was founded in 2022 by political figures like Bill Barr and Karl Rove and has pursued lawsuits aimed at gaining access to voter data and influencing registration practices.
Rockbridge Network functions like a conservative venture capital hub, funding projects including map influence and political coalition-building at the state level.
Organizations like Heritage Action, the American Principles Project, FreedomWorks, and others are directing substantial funds toward restrictive voting laws and election procedure changes in numerous states.
While there are multiple Democratic-aligned groups working to register voters or encourage election turnout Stacy Abrams Fair Fight Action, Rock The Vote, and Voto Latino there isnt even one dedicated to suppressing the Republican vote.
Immediately after the five Republican appointees on the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, 14 GOP-controlled states moved, within a year (some within days), to restrict access to the vote, particularly for communities of color, students, and retired people.
In North Carolina, for example, 158 polling places were permanently closed in the 40 counties with the most African American voters just before the 2016 election, leading to a 16 percent decline in African American early voting in that state. An MIT study found that, nationwide, Hispanic voters wait 150 percent longer in line than white voters, and Black voters can expect to wait 200 percent longer in line to vote.
This is how Republicans work to win elections, and although its not a legal crime (under interpretations by the Republican majority on the Supreme Court) its certainly a moral crime and an all-out assault on what remains of our democracy.
In Indiana, then-Governor Pences new rigorous voter ID law the first in the nation at the time (2005) caused an 11.5 percent drop in African American voting. Students sued for their right to vote and lost, and in Red states, retired people who no longer drive but care passionately about their Social Security and Medicare are routinely turned away at the polls by the tens of thousands for lack of a current drivers license, another GOP trick. In 2008, around six million eligible voters did not vote because of difficulties associated with registration requirements, according to the Census Bureau.
In the months leading up to the 2012 election in Pennsylvania, Republicans had just passed that states first voter suppression law. It eliminated the right to vote of 758,000 registered voters because they lacked a Department of Transportation-issued ID, meaning over 9 percent of that states then 8.2 million registered voters could no longer cast a ballot.
As the US Commission on Civil Rights noted about the 2000 election after Governor Jeb Bush purged over 90,000 mostly-Black voters and Republicans began seriously challenging voters right to vote:
14.4 percent of Floridas black voters cast ballots that were rejected. This compares with approximately 1.6 percent of nonblack Florida voters who did not have their presidential votes counted. [I]n the states largest county, Miami-Dade, more than 65 percent of the names on the purge list were African Americans, who represented only 20.4 percent of the population.
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