Voter Suppression Test Kitchen

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If Republicans lose, they'll say the election was 'stolen' and will resort to violence,
like the 6 January attempt to overthrow a duly elected government.

Voter suppression laws southern states enacted in 2021 after Trump’s attempt to take the election by force, will be tested for the first time this year.

Early voting is in progress for the 2022 Midterm Elections. Some Americans don’t want to wait for the actual date, 8 November. They believe in the proverb, the early bird catches the worm.

The voting process is also infested with worms from voter suppression laws in states such as Georgia, Arizona, Arkansas, Iowa and Utah. The 2022 Midterms will be the test kitchen because Republicans in the South passed them in 2021, after former U.S. President Donald Trump claimed the 2020 election was ‘stolen’ from him.

VIOLENCE AFTER 8 NOVEMBER

Why pass laws to discourage people from voting? It’s because of Trump and his sense of entitlement as Fame the T.V series song goes, ‘Fame, I’m gonna live forever.’

He claimed the election was stolen only in states where he lost. In Georgia, Trump went to the extent of telling Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, to find him votes to make him win. Raffensperger released the phone call to the whole world.

Trump refused to honour the electoral process that put him in power, so he decided to scatter it. How? The 6 January violent assault on Congress. That is why there should be cause for concern about the 19 states that passed 33 laws based on his lie.

The only result they are expecting from the voter suppression test kitchen is winning. If they don’t, Midterms will be ‘stolen’ as per Trump’s legacy. There will be all kinds of lawsuits after the vote count, but the 19 states are prepared to take power by force, as they did 6 January 2021.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.

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