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[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

TBH, actively trying to suppress voters isn't even the worst of it. The next step is making sure that it doesn't even matter if they do.

You know, like they already do. Source: Am in Ohio. There are already public statements from officials that they are trying to dilute/overrule/ignore the results of our vote to legalize abortion and weed. And that's even outside things like gerrymandering.

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the whole point of their independent state legislature theory. They argue that the state legislature can simply declare their own election results if they don't like the voters' results and that nobody, not the executive nor the courts, can challenge them. They are literally arguing that we should dismantle democracy altogether and somehow people are still "bOtH sIdEs"-ing.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The point of The Great American Experiment was to use votes rather than bullets to select a leader.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

It's astonishing that their first thought is to oppose it by any means necessary when it passed with +14%.

Like dude, you're just self sabotaging yourself and your party. This is just going to happen again and again until you accept it.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weed too? I only saw headlines about abortion.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. Issue 1 was abortion, issue 2 was weed. Both passed with about 57% support. Weed was ever so slightly more popular than abortion, but only a tiny bit