The stampede begins. One can always count on Republicans to rush for antidemocratic cover by floating all possible ways to suppress the votes of American citizens.
Georgia's Gov. Brian Kemp, for one, has "strongly endorsed" his party's demand that photo IDs accompany absentee ballot requests. "It’s a simple way to make sure that type of voting is further secured," said Kemp, "and it’s a good first place to start" (emphasis mine). "It’s completely reasonable in this day and time," he continued, "and in light of what’s going on, it would give all voters peace of mind and wouldn’t be restrictive."
Although one recent study found that voter ID laws have essentially no effect on voting, its Harvard and University of Bologna authors concluded, logically, that "this result weakens the case for adopting such laws in the first place."
Also, if Gov. Kemp and friends wish to "give all voters peace of mind," they need advertise little more than their own secretary state's audit that "found zero cases of fraud among 15,000 Cobb County absentee ballot envelopes reviewed by law enforcement." But Kemp knows that his party's troubled minds can never be peaceful, unless they "secure" all possible methods that might eliminate any formidable opposition.
Moments ago, while writing this piece and pondering as well yet another session with cable news, I saw alternatively in an online guide that on MeTV, Wile E. Coyote was "tr[ying] to catch the Road Runner using a cooking pan, a mallet, and a TNT stick." Likewise our poor, desperate Republicans. Notwithstanding their sundry attempts to rig elections, they're as doomed to self-explosions as Mr. Coyote was in trying to annihilate his nemesis.