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Messing with the mail in votes is perhaps new, but suppression of progressive voters - especially minorities - has long been the norm in the U.S. This is actual
by NationalPark 6y ago
Messing with the mail in votes is perhaps new, but suppression of progressive voters - especially minorities - has long been the norm in the U.S. This is actually worse than it sounds because of our electoral college system. Only a relatively small absolute number of votes need to be suppressed to change the outcome of the election.
- InitialLastName 6y agoThis is an important point, and there are plenty of recent elections that affirm it. If the Florida panhandle were part of Alabama, and Michigan's upper peninsula were part of Wisconsin, the result of the 2016 election would have been reversed. The 2000 election was decided by ~500 voters in Florida.