Talk about burying the lede.<\/p>\n
In a Washington Post<\/i> story about Republicans pressuring the (Republican) Secretary of State to throw out legal ballots<\/a>, we find this bit of horror from Lindsay Graham: <\/p>\n In the interview, Raffensperger also said he spoke on Friday to Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has echoed Trump\u2019s unfounded claims<\/a> about voting irregularities.<\/p>\n In their conversation, Graham questioned Raffensperger about the state\u2019s signature-matching law and whether political bias could have prompted poll workers to accept ballots with nonmatching signatures, according to Raffensperger. Graham also asked whether Raffensperger had the power to toss all mail ballots in counties found to have higher rates of nonmatching signatures<\/span><\/b>, Raffensperger said.<\/p>\n Raffensperger said he was stunned that Graham appeared to suggest that he find a way to toss legally cast ballots. Absent court intervention, Raffensperger doesn\u2019t have the power to do what Graham suggested because counties administer elections in Georgia.<\/p>\n \u201cIt sure looked like he was wanting to go down that road,\u201d Raffensperger said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n (emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n The road that Graham was speeding down was, “Invalidate all the mail in ballots from counties with lots of black and brown people.” <\/p>\n This has been a core Republican value since (checks notes) before John Roberts worked at the Reagan White House. <\/p>\n The party of Abraham Lincoln is now the party of Jefferson Davis, and one of their most important values is, “Stop n****** from voting.” <\/p>\n I do not know how you find common ground with that.<\/p>\n Again, I invoke Robert Graves’ paraphrase of Germanicus Caesar<\/a>.<\/p>\n