JF in the News: With Voting Bills Dead, Democrats Face Costly Fight to Overcome GOP Curbs (New York Times)

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Republicans, whose most avid voters remain animated by Mr. Trump’s false stolen-election claims, have had no such trouble recruiting election workers. For Virginia’s November election, Republicans placed volunteers at 96 percent of precincts, up from 37 percent for the 2020 election, according to John Fredericks, a conservative talk-radio host who was Mr. Trump’s Virginia state chairman in 2020 and was a booster of the new Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin.

“That was the key to Youngkin’s victory,” Mr. Fredericks said.

Urging rank-and-file Republicans to work as poll watchers plays on their fears of voter fraud and help reinforce party loyalty, G.O.P. officials say.

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Florida Democrats say they will spend tens of millions of dollars registering voters, money that could have been spent on campaigns if federal voting rights bills had passed. Credit…Eve Edelheit for The New York Times

Truncated article from: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/15/us/politics/voting-rights-democrats.html

By New York Times Reid J. Epstein and Nick Corasaniti

 

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