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Bold claim. I'd love to read the source material.

• myko 10y ago
  Voter suppression does not mean people at polling stations with guns threatening people (though that does occasionally happen). Voter suppression includes lessening the number of voting precincts to depress minority turnout and create longer lines. Purging voter rolls illegally. Voter ID laws that target the poor. Reducing the number of days where early voting takes place. I don't think these are particularly bold things to claim are happening.
  • sturgill 10y ago
    We agree that actively reducing voting stations in ways that disproportionately impact the poor is problematic. But it's hard for me to believe that voter ID laws inherently target the poor more so than ID laws governing the sale of alcohol and/or tobacco (or cough syrup or spray paint or guns or...). I find it relatively obscene that I'll get carded at the bar but cast my vote for President by giving a volunteer my name. I don't know for certain that fraud is happening (or at least that it's happening in sufficient numbers), but I find it disingenuous to propose _that it can't be happening_. What is the appropriate trade off between potential for fraud and disenfranchisement is an interesting question. One I wish both sides were willing to talk about without rancor.