Voting issues have been happening in the US for a long time (when the US was founded only property owners could vote). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rig

Voting issues have been happening in the US for a long time (when the US was founded only property owners could vote). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_States#Milestones_of_national_franchise_changes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_St... Its only been 100 years since women were allowed to vote, and that barely squeeked through. Historically they had "Poll Taxes" (Pay to vote) another form of voter repression (struck down in the 1960s). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_taxes_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_taxes_in_the_United_State... States set their own voting rules, even in national elections. It got so bad in the 1960s the Federal Government passed a "Voting rights act" to try and fix thing. That of course has been dragged through the courts and in the past couple years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_States#Milestones_of_national_franchise_changes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_St...