The law enacted in March 2021 shortened the time people have to request and return mail ballots, prohibited election officials from sending such applications to all voters, added new ID requirements, and dramatically curtailed the use of ballot drop boxes, among other changes.

During municipal elections in November, Georgia voters were 45 times more likely to have their mail ballot applications rejected—and ultimately not vote as a result—than in 2020.

If that same rejection rate were extrapolated to the 2020 race, more than 38,000 votes would not have been cast in a presidential contest decided by just over 11,000 votes.

In November 2021, Georgians who successfully obtained mail ballots were also 2x as likely to have those ballots rejected once they were submitted compared to the previous year. If that were the case in 2020, ~31,000 fewer votes would have been cast in the presidential election.

This data from a key swing state suggests that voter disenfranchisement caused by GOP-backed voting restrictions could significantly increase in 2022 and 2024. Read more from Ari Berman and Ryan Little: bit.ly/3u8sUnf

"I think that what Liz Cheney sees above all else is that this is an ongoing, unfolding plot and conspiracy against democracy in the U.S. and that what we have seen from the Republican Party from its leadership is... profound cowardice" - Steve Schmidt w/ Nicolle Wallace

To support Ukraine, consumers & businesses should #boycottCompaniesDoingBusinessInRussia. Those businesses are funding Putin’s war, which is killing innocent civilians—killing children!

can't we just let some Ukrainian farmers use their tractors to tow the Polish MiGs over the border

Strange but true. youtu.be/HL41oesVh9o

Take a moment to compare Judge Jackson’s temperament in her hearing to the performance of Justice Kavanaugh’s in his. Enuf said.

Sen. Cory Booker cut through a tense third day of hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Wednesday with a speech on racial progress that drew tears from the nominee and held the rapt attention of colleagues. apne.ws/zVPCJM8

I love Ketanji Brown Jackson! I am so looking forward to hearing her rulings and dissents on the Supreme Court. I’m with Cory Booker: This is cause for Joy. Listen to his inspiring words.

She did it without even an oral argument! No wonder she earned a really rare ABA rating of “unqualified” to be a federal judge. Her opinion is a shambles, filled with unsupported medical claims as though she were an expert in fields about which she knows even less than about law!

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