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The GOP makes it difficult to vote for anyone who isn't a landowning white person under the guise of protecting us from "voter fraud". They do this in a number
by minikites 9y ago
The GOP makes it difficult to vote for anyone who isn't a landowning white person under the guise of protecting us from "voter fraud". They do this in a number of ways, including (but not limited to) under-staffing or eliminating polling locations in non-white areas and onerous address/residency restrictions (to exclude students, other young people just getting started, and migrant families).
Many young people want to vote, but are discouraged or prevented from doing so.
- seibelj 9y agoIs there any published research on polling locations correlated with race and income? Genuinely curious. It sounds plausible but I haven’t heard about that before.
- favorited 9y agoIt got much worse after SCOTUS invalidated portions of the VRA. States which previously needed federal approval to change voting procedures closed polling places on college campuses and drastically reduced early voting windows to make it more difficult for college students to vote. Some states (I know Texas and N.C. off the top of my head) don't allow student IDs to be used at the polls, either. Other states targeted minorities with similar tactics. Alabama (which needed federal sign-off on changes under the VRA) passed a voter ID law then closed 30-something DMVs across the state, almost exclusively in areas with huge black populations.