The Right-Wing War on American Voters

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Voter-suppression measures have been spreading like viruses from state to state throughout the decade since Barack Obama became the first African-American president. The means and methods range from voter ID laws to purges of voter registrations and worse. A recent report from the Brennan Center for Justice found that between 2016 to 2018, 17 million voter registrations had been purged from the rolls.
And that’s just one method of voter suppression currently in use. In Tennessee, an African-American voter registration effort was effectively criminalized by legislative action. In Florida, a voter referendum restoring rights for formerly incarcerated citizens was undercut by Republican lawmakers who limited its scope—while also passing a law designed to cut down on student voting. In Texas in 2018, a precinct at Prairie View, a historically black university where students have long struggled to exercise their franchise, had its early-voting hours cut back to fewer than half of others in the area. “Here we go again,” student Jayla Allen later recalled thinking when she heard the news.

To read more:

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-right-wing-war-on-american-voters/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=rww&utm_campaign=bestof

If one cannot win the debate, prevent the other side from voting. That is the GOP way.

[uponit7771]

1. MAGA suckers aren't interested in democracy, just control

[guillaumeb]

2. And that is true for the GOP leadership as well.

It is so obvious that any talk of the GOP being interested in compromise sounds almost funny.