Jess Piper reports – from the ground in rural Missouri and Arkansas – about how, since it knows it cannot win fair and square, the Republican party is resorting to tricks, subterfuge, and outright lies to try to impose its minority position on abortion on the majority who believe that abortion should not be made illegal.
She recently went to a Democratic rally in Arkansas, and encountered a woman handing out cards with QR code.
The woman was positioned at the entrance to the drive to the rally as if she were an official checking people in. A man with her was sitting in his car watching.
The woman smiled and asked Piper if she wanted information on the petition to put abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. Piper said she'd like it.
But when Piper scanned the code on the card and it took her to Google drive, she became suspicious.
Her suspicion increased as she began reading folders on the Google drive including one labeled, "Decline to Sign." They were full of packs of lies about the initiatve to put abortion on the ballot. They were designed to discourage people from signing this initiative.
Piper concludes,
“'Decline to Sign' is a coordinated movement and we saw it in Missouri as well."
"It is well-funded and not at all grassroots. They have signs, sites, and lawmakers who are bought and paid for to do their dirty work."
And its goal is to confuse voters and discourage them from signing petitions to place abortion on the ballot — because Republicans know they cannot win this fight fairly. So they intend to cheat and lie to try to win it and to impose their minority position about abortion on the majority by those means.
@boulder Yes, Piper mentions that point, and is confident that people will see through the ruses and make their voices heard. I wish I had the same confidence about Arkansas as an Arkansan, but we'll see….
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