Conservatives do not like voting, never have. Progressives have always worked to expand voting (parties switch back and forth, conservative versus progressive remains true). Progressives worked to get the direct election of senators, progressives worked to secure voting rights for Black Americans, for women, we look to make voting easier, motor-voter laws, mail-in voting, Sunday voting, proposing making election day a national holiday. On and on, “Let’s make democracy better!”

Conservatives – to the extent they will allow a vote – they want it coming from the right time and the right places, so only the right conservatives vote. They want to require people to enter a voting booth that day. This obviously favors the rich. A poor person almost surely needs to work, is more likely to live in a big city, more likely needs public transportation, almost always has to stand in a much longer line (the GOP is VERY good at that, look at the lines in downtown Atlanta versus Buckhead). Conservatives want to kick people off rolls if they haven’t voted in two to three elections, always working to limit voting.

*Personal experience. Those of you who have lived in Washington, a blue state, know how easy it can be to vote. Your ballot comes in the mail. You fill it out over dinner. You sign it, put it in the envelope already provided and either put it back in the mail or drop it in a bin around town.

Conservatives hate such ideas. It means everyone can vote! And that means they lose, almost always. It is why Texas has the toughest voting laws in the nation. Texas is actually quite purple, but one would never know from the elections because they so favor the wealthy.

This explains the text that Rep. Raskin read last night, sent by an as yet unknown (but definitely stupid) MAGA representative to Mark Meadows just hours after the polls closed on Nov. 3rd and long before a winner had been determined:

“HERE’s an AGGRESSIVE STRATEGY: Why can’t [sic] the states of GA NC PENN and other R controlled state houses declare this is BS (where conflicts and election not called that night) and just send their own electors to vote and have it go to the SCOTUS,” the message read.

Another text from a lawmaker to Meadows, presented by Rep. Jamie Raskin:

"HERE's an AGGRESSIVE STRATEGY…." pic.twitter.com/ZbY8BIV3vm

— Nicholas Wu (@nicholaswu12) December 14, 2021

The author of that text will be revealed next week.

The only “conflict” this representative is referencing is where the vote stands at the end of the night versus where the vote stands when all the votes are counted. It is “BS” to continue to count votes (the mail-in votes) and this representative believes that only the votes cast at the ballot box and reported that day are “real” votes.

They already knew they were in a tough spot. Trump was up, but not by enough and even Trump’s team warned him that the mail-in vote would heavily favor the Democrats and that being “up” early meant nothing (unless he was much higher than average).

It is obvious that this representative saw the swing and immediately began to consider how they might go about throwing the election, making the entire endeavor about keeping Trump, not having an election.

All the claims about things being rigged, all the complaints about states “not following their own constitutions” (which is not what the state judges ruled, interesting that these people know better), they are all contrived. It is all out in the open.

Raskin busted someone and pretty soon that someone will be humiliated and exposed as someone who is against voting and for “ruling,” just as conservatives have always been.

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