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We’ll Say This Again: Voting Is A Right, Not A “Good Citizen” Test

Yet some Republicans have even stopped pretending to differentiate between fraud, and just people who don’t normally vote deciding to vote…

Eric J Scholl
7 min readDec 18, 2020

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Lots of new or infrequent voters deciding to vote is absolutely a large part of the reason Trump lost. Proof of that is in the record number of ballots that were cast in the Presidential election for both candidates. Except 7,059,782 more for Biden. Which is not fraud. The farthest thing from it. It’s just people deciding to vote, or not, which they have the right to do, even if they’ve never felt compelled to vote before, or for a while, provided they are citizens and legally meet the requirements to register and vote based on the rules in whichever state they may reside. Based on whatever rules those states set up. Doesn’t make them any better or worse an American than any other voter.

One person, one vote.

Yet Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul, for instance, said this, just this week, in relation to the upcoming double U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia:

I’m very, very concerned that if you solicit votes from typically non-voters, that you will affect and change the outcome.”

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Eric J Scholl
Eric J Scholl

Written by Eric J Scholl

Peabody award winning journalist. Streaming media pioneer. Played @ CBGB back in the day. Editor-In-Chief "The Chaos Report" www.thechaosreport.com

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