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Voter suppression is a strategy used to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting. Looks like a
by hactually 6y ago
Voter suppression is a strategy used to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting.
Looks like a perfect definition match.
- radford-neal 6y agoThere's a BIG difference between discouraging people from voting by threatening to beat them up if they do, and discouraging them from voting by convincing them that none of the candidates are any good. The former is criminal. The later is normal politics. Conflating the two is deceptive.
- hactually 6y agoDisagree. It's literally the definition of the term.
- radford-neal 6y agoBut if that's your definition of "voter suppression", then there's nothing at all wrong with it.