Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Voting Matters

Reminder: The reason these hearings are able to happen at all is because Democrats won in 2018.
This is why voting matters.

The 2018 midterms saw the highest voter turnout for a midterm election in over 50 years. In some districts turnout was as high as 60%, and some districts had higher turnout than during the last presidential election. 1

Democrats gained 40 seats in the House of Representatives. 2

Democrats also picked up seven governorships in 2018, and two more in 2019, in Kentucky and Louisiana. 3
 
Democrats picked up more than 300 seats in state legislatures, and over half of the Attorney General's seats in states across the country. In the states where Democrats did not get outright control of the state legislature, they were able to, in most cases, break Republican super-majorities. 4 And in 2019, Democrats took full control of the Virginia state house for the first time since 1994.

Again, voting matters.

If voting didn't matter, then Republicans in Arizona wouldn't have filed a lawsuit to prevent mail-in ballot counting in a very tight Senate race. 5

If voting didn't matter, then Republicans in Florida wouldn't have filed a lawsuit to prevent a recount in a very close governor and Senate race. 6

In Georgia, voters actually had to file a lawsuit in order to get Brian Kemp to resign as Secretary of State, so he would not be overseeing voting counts and recounts in that state. Which is something he should have done over a month ago anyway in order to avoid conflicts of interest. 7

If voting didn't matter, Georgia and Wisconsin wouldn't be attempting to purge 309,000 and 234,000 voters, respectively, from the rolls in their states. 8
Because it bears repeating.
Democrat running against Mitch McConnell: https://twitter.com/AmyMcGrathKY
Democrat running against Lindsey Graham: https://twitter.com/harrisonjaime
Democrat running against Elise Stefanik: https://twitter.com/TedraCobb
Democrat running against John Ratcliffe: https://twitter.com/RussellFosterTX
Democrat running against Mike Turner: https://twitter.com/TimsDesiree
Three Democrats running against Devin Nunes:
https://twitter.com/PhilArballo2020
https://twitter.com/bobbybliatout
https://twitter.com/daryrezvani
Three Democrats running against Jim Jordan.
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: voting matters. The results of the 2018 mid-term election speak for themselves. Which is exactly why the GOP spends so much time and effort to keep people from voting.

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