Donald Trump, who attempted to overturn the outcome of his 2020 presidential election loss by inciting a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is now in his second term orchestrating a multi-pronged voter suppression campaign to prevent Democrats from taking control of the U.S. House and Senate.
Among the schemes unleashed are unprecedented mid-decade gerrymandering in Republican-controlled states, an executive order to use the post office to eliminate mail-in voting; lawsuits against states to collect confidential voter information; and pressuring Congress to pass the SAVE America Act that by requiring birth certificates or passports to vote, which would disenfranchise and estimated more than 20 million eligible voters.
There’s growing alarm about the Justice Department’s seizure of ballots in Atlanta and Arizona, along with regime threats to interfere in the election by declaring a national emergency, invoking the Insurrection Act and deploying ICE agents to intimidate voters at polling places.
While the many schemes being launched to rig the election in the GOP’s favor are happening in plain sight, U.S. corporate media too often downplay fact checks of the Republicans’ false claim of massive voter fraud by immigrants that they argue justifies policies that make it harder for millions of Americans to vote. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Julie Hollar, senior analyst with the group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, who talks about her recent commentary titled, “Who Will SAVE America From Misleading Coverage of Voter Suppression?”
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