Tthe far right continues to freak out over the fact that registrations to vote, as well as early voting, have ballooned, doubling or even tripling in deep-red states in recent weeks.
An organization called True the Vote, replete with Tea Party types, sent hair- and pants-on-fire direct mail to supporters in Texas. Those notices decried the en mass (True the Vote's spelling) submissions of applications to register to vote as a plot by (who else?) the radical left.
TtV needn't have worried. The Republican Texas state legislature had already taken care of it. They'd decided that all such paperwork had to be reviewed and processed individually, and by hand. Given the volume of these applications, many will not be ready in time for the folks submitting them to be able to vote.
Meanwhile, in Georgia, Brian Kemp, the state's Secretary of State, arbitrarily blocked 53,000 applications for registration. But Georgia didn't stop there. A busload of African-American senior citizens wanted to vote at a site specifically designated for early voting. They were turned away. They were, in fact, ordered to get off the bus that was to take them to the voting site.
It's hard to imagine a better example of chutpah than that last ...
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