MAGA’s Decades-Long Attacks On Voting. Steve Williamson, Karen McClelland and Gary LaMaster detail the many attempts by MAGA (formerly known as the Republican Party) to prevent Democratic-leaning populations, especially people of color, from voting.
Dating back to at least the 1960s, MAGA has resorted to dirty tricks, intimidation of voters and election workers, extreme gerrymandering, barriers to voter registration, barriers to voter IDs, barriers to voting, barriers to student voters, voter purges, voter challenges based on exact matches to often faulty government databases, refusal to register voters such as homeless and Native Americans without a home address, attacks on absentee ballots, attacks on early voting and attacks on mail-in ballots. MAGA has even resorted to “alternative” electors, pressure on governors to “find” enough ballots to change the outcome and, most famously, the attempted coup on January 6, 2021,
For the coming election, MAGA seems poised to attempt to block all mail-in and electronic voting, and by passing the innocuous sounding SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) Act designed to intimidate and exclude millions of women and voters of color by requiring voters to provide (often difficult to obtain) documentary proof of U.S. citizenship. In addition, the MAGA majority on the Supreme Court seems ready to eviscerate the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
There is even the very real threat that the Trump regime will suspend the 2026 midterm elections by using the Insurrection Act of 1807 to declare martial law!
All of this begs the question: Why?
The answer, of course, is that MAGA doesn’t feel it can win a free and fair election.