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Basically, even now the party in power makes it as hard as possible for the minority power to vote. Making elections on work days, registration required 6+ mont
by cm2012 8y ago
Basically, even now the party in power makes it as hard as possible for the minority power to vote. Making elections on work days, registration required 6+ months before election day, understaffing polling places in certain districts, changing polling places, etc. This has a nasty history going back to the jim crow days.
That, mixed with the fact that in person polling fraud pretty much never happens, means we shouldn't want another tool in the hands of disenfranchisers.
- jacobolus 8y agoIt turns out that the history of these tactics goes back to the northern states using them to disenfranchise new immigrants in the second half of the 19th century (they didn’t want Irish, Italian, German, Polish, ... immigrants voting). Later white southerners who wanted to disenfranchise blacks were inspired by their example, and took voting suppression to new heights. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/todays-voter-suppression-tactics-have-a-150-year-history https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/todays-voter-suppressi...