Republicans are not wooing new voters with fresh ideas and agendas to regain the Congress and Presidency they lost in 2020.
Instead, the GOP has begun in Georgia what it hopes to do in state legislatures nationally, including Wisconsin's: keep or expand their power and incumbencies
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| State Sen. Duey Strobel, (R-Saukville), is leading the charge to add more restrictions to voting in Wisconsin |
with layers of added obstacles to election day and and absentee voting.
This legislative cycle, Republicans around the country have proposed hundreds of bills that would restrict access to voting, taking aim at issues like absentee voting, voter registration and disability access. Wisconsin Republicans are part of that trend, releasing their plans as well.
Last Wednesday, Wisconsin Republicans started circulating a package of 10 bills that would, among other requested changes: stiffen the criteria to vote as indefinitely confined. Under current law, people who self-elect that they cannot get to the polls because of age, illness, infirmity or disability do not have to provide a photo ID to vote absentee.
No doubt Republicans long for the good old days when voting was limited to white male property owners or was later restricted by Jim Crow-era poll taxes and literacy tests.
With only one national party now committed to democracy, expect Republicans to more regularly and intentionally mispronounce "Democratic Party" as "Democrat Party," lest they inadvertently remind people that one major party continues to practice and protect democratic values - and it's not the GOP.