From Amanda McKay, Daily Kos Aug. 4
Trump’s reelection campaign has a multi-pronged strategy to prevent people from voting, as well as to sow confusion and distrust into the process. As Rolling Stone recently documented, it has three main points:
• First, thanks to Big Tech companies like Facebook, Trump and his right-wing allies are using social media to spread disinformation about voting, in particular about the safety and security of voting by mail.
• Second, backed by donations from the ultra-wealthy elite, Republicans are spending millions of dollars on lawyers to file lawsuits designed to keep mail-in ballots out of the hands of voters whenever possible
• Third, Trump’s campaign, via the Republican National Committee, is giving millions of dollars to Republican state parties to recruit 50,000 volunteers to directly intimidate prospective voters at “key precincts”–including veterans and off-duty law enforcement officers.
That is Trump’s plan to suppress the vote… Daily Kos has a plan to fight back:
• For every piece of Republican disinformation on voting by mail, through our vast email and SMS lists and our highly trafficked website, we are using our deep reach into the progressive base to arm millions of grassroots activists with the facts they need to spread the truth about voting by mail.
• For every lawsuit Republicans file to prevent voters from accessing mail-in ballots, at Daily Kos we are sending over 100,000 letters to elected officials from their constituents, demanding funding for voting by mail in 2020.
• For every person Republicans recruit to intimidate people away from voting, at Daily Kos we are going to recruit twice as many volunteers to help people vote. With 100 days until the election, we are well on our way to this goal, having recruited over 32,000 volunteers for effective Get Out the Vote operations already.
…in the event that Trump loses and refuses to concede, we have also already signed up thousands of volunteers for what comes after the election, too.