Sen Raphael Warnock First Senate Floor Speech – Voter Suppression

It is certainly depressing, but the only way forward
for the GOP is to concentrate all their efforts on
Voter Suppression. How else can it be?

Nearly 160 million Americans voted in the 2020 elections, by far the most in history and a level of turnout not seen in over a century, representing an extraordinary milestone of civic engagement in a year marked by a devastating pandemic, record unemployment and political unrest.
With all but three states having completed their final count, and next week’s deadline for final certification of the results approaching, the sheer volume of Americans who actually voted in November was eye-opening: 66.7 percent of the voting-eligible population, according to the U.S. Election Project, a nonpartisan website run by Michael McDonald, a University of Florida professor who tracks county-level data.
It is the highest percentage since 1900, when the voting pool was much smaller, and easily surpasses two high-water marks of the modern era: the 1960 election of John F. Kennedy and the 2008 election of Barack Obama. Since the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which gave women the right to vote and roughly doubled the voting eligible population, turnout had never surpassed 64 percent.
The shifts that led to this year’s surge in voting, in particular the broad expansion of voting options and the prolonged period for casting ballots, could forever alter elections and political campaigns in America, providing a glimpse into the electoral future.
A backlash from the right could prevent that, however. In many ways, the increase in voting is what Mr. Trump and the Republican Party are now openly campaigning against in their floundering bid to overturn his clear loss to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.— whose popular vote lead grew to seven million on Friday. Republicans have portrayed the burgeoning voting ranks as nefarious and the expanded access to voting options as ripe for fraud …
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/us/politics/2020-election-turnout.html?smid=tw-share
Republicans Pushed to Restrict Voting.
Millions of Americans Pushed Back.

This is one of those things we need todo more than talk about.  Best idea I have so far is the people who know more about grass roots politics than i do, need to organize rolling boycotts of businesses in states were voting is surpressed or gerrymandered.  I think that the businesses don’t really care that much who gets to vote, but if they start losing business in a way that hurts they would be in a position to influence the politicians who are doing the suppressing. then of course the people would need to actually vote. i think some of the voter supppression measures on offer would be fairly easy to get around if the voters were organized.