An attack on voters Never on Sunday?

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a most anti-democratic law. To criminalize the passing out of water or food to folks in voting lines is the most insane thing so far that Republicans have done.

I emphasize “so far” because our mostly Republican Texas Legislature is also considering bills affecting voting.

People fought and died for the right to free and open elections. Yet power-hungry unscrupulous people in Republicancontrolled states are doing everything in their power to end that right.

I hope folks remember the Martin Niemöller poem as I summarize it: “They” came for various groups and I did not speak out because I was not in that group. Then they came for me and no one was around to speak for me.

This blatant attack on democracy is an attack on all of us. Those of you with courage, speak out.

James Keown, Garden Ridge

Some people say the GOP is out to suppress votes. For example, in some states, there is a campaign to put an end to “Souls to the Polls,” a tradition

in Black churches to vote following Sunday services.

Nonsense, says U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-smith, a Mississippi Republican. Sunday should be all about honoring God, she said.

There appear to be exceptions: NASCAR and NFL events are still on Sunday. There is even a competition between Baptists and Methodists to see who can get to Cracker Barrel first. Even the Creation Museum in Kentucky is open Sunday.

But, you know, you have to draw the line somewhere!

LM Otero / Associated Press Readers voice concerns as a number of Republican-controlled states — including Georgia and Texas — move forward with legislation that will restrict access to the polls. Above, a voter in Richardson casts a ballot this summer.