Lockhart protects the right to vote

For someone who is always talking about how he will protect the right to vote, Delegate John McGuire certainly has a strange way of going about it.

Having voted NO on:

  • No-excuse absentee voting. (HB 1)                                                                               
  • Same-day voter registration. (HB 201)

In 2020, and following up in 2021 with these NO’s:

  • The Virginia Voting Rights Act. (SB 1395)                                                                     
  • Ballot drop boxes and pre-paid postage for vote-by-mail. (HB 1888)
  • Automatic restoration of rights for people who have served their time (SJ 272) 

He publicly admits to participating in the January 6th Rally in DC, joining white supremacists and proud boys.   

McGuire is an insurrectionist

This week he is scheduled to repeat those lies about the elections integrity at an Election Integrity Rally . 

The right to vote-Hiding their deeds

Most people don’t know that a three-bus caravan chartered by the Culpeper Republicans took like-minded Louisa County residents to join him. Or, that they are doing their best to hide this inconvenient fact.

Patriots erasing their participation

There have always been those who dislike their Party’s embrace of racial hostility and culture wars but have swallowed their distaste as long as their taxes were low. And now that the G.O.P. has become the party of election lies and violent insurrection — are they still willing to make that trade-off? 

Their ceaseless lies about the legitimacy of elections make it clear that they don’t support protecting the right to vote. And while everyone was paying attention to these distractions, one third of the country has passed laws to restrict voting.

Winning with a minority

Their goal is to normalize the theft of a constitutional right. Treating it like a privilege, which can be restricted if voters fail to meet their expectations. Ensuring they can win elections even when in the minority.

So what should you do when one Party does not want every legal vote to be counted?

Start at the local level by rejecting the two astroturfed challengers for Board of Supervisors. And clear out the deadwood in the General Assembly, electing Blakely Lockhart as your next delegate

Jon Taylor

This letter is an enhanced version of a letter published in the August 5th edition of the Central Virginian and is reprinted here with the author’s permission.