Inside Democrats’ Scramble to Repel the G.O.P. Voting Push Lacking effective legislative or legal ways to stop Republicans from introducing new voting limits, Democrats are applying pressure on their allies in Washington and trying to energize supporters. Protesting new restrictions on voting at the Texas State Capitol on Thursday in Austin.Credit...Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman, via Associated Press May 7, 2021Updated 7:08 p.m. ET Democrats are struggling to build a surefire legal strategy to block new Republican-backed restrictions on voting rights, relying on broadly worded warnings and urgent pleas that are designed, in part, to build political pressure on the White House, Congress and the Justice Department to act, as well as to engage their supporters to mobilize in advance of the 2022 midterm elections.