Voter Suppression in 2018

[Dill]

Rachel Maddow has been reporting on voter suppression over the last two shows, prompting me to post on the subject in this forum.

Will North Dakota’s Discriminatory Voter-ID Law Cost Democrats the Senate?
https://www.thenation.com/article/will-north-dakotas-discriminatory-voter-id-law-cost-democrats-the-senate/

So the North Dakota race matters. Heitkamp is behind.... To close the gap, she needs to mobilize voters who favor the state’s Democratic-Nonpartisan League Party ....

That will be dramatically harder if thousands of Native Americans are disenfranchised by the voter-ID law, .... Rejecting the claim that voters can easily “adapt” to the new requirement—in the few weeks between now and the election—Ginsburg wrote in a dissent joined by Justice Elena Kagan: “That observation overlooks specific fact findings by the District Court: (1) 70,000 North Dakota residents—almost 20 percent of the turnout in a regular quadrennial election—lack a qualifying ID; and (2) approximately 18,000 North Dakota residents also lack supplemental documentation sufficient to permit them to vote without a qualifying ID.”

The ND law requires that Voter IDs have a residential address. Many on reservations do not have that. (I lived on the Crow Reservation in MT for a number of years. We had no street addresses. Streets had Crow names, but these were not marked on any map or street signs.)  ND has virtually no history of voter fraud, but the IDs ostensibly designed to prevent such fraud would keep
THOUSANDS of Democrat-leaning voters from voting--in a state where a Democratic Senator is up for election.

I could tack on to this question issues from other states. Georgia seems to have special difficulties at the moment as well.
Black Voter Suppression: Senior citizens ordered off of bus heading to Georgia polls for early voting
https://thegrio.com/2018/10/17/black-voter-suppression-senior-citizens-ordered-off-of-bus-heading-to-georgia-polls-for-early-voting/
The Georgia Voter Suppression Story Is Not Going Away
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/georgia-voter-suppression-brian-kemp-736817/amp/
It’s in this role that Kemp oversees Georgia’s elections, and, on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that over 53,000 voter applications have been put on hold under the controversial “exact match” verification policy. Over two-thirds of those affected are African American.

And then there is Texas,

Harris County Verifying Thousands of Voter Registration Addresses
https://empowertexans.com/local/harris-county-verifying-thousands-of-voter-registration-addresses/
In Violation of Texas Law, Most High Schools Aren’t Giving Students the Chance to Register to Vote
https://www.texasobserver.org/in-violation-of-texas-law-most-high-schools-arent-giving-students-the-chance-to-register-to-vote/
Federal judge: Texas is violating national voter registration law
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/04/03/federal-judge-hands-texas-loss-voter-registration-lawsuit/
Voter Registration Around Austin Smashed Records. That May Be a Problem.
https://www.propublica.org/article/voter-registration-around-austin-smashed-records-that-may-be-a-problem
Travis County received a record 35,000 applications on the final day of voter registration, leaving officials there only days to input the data. While the increase in voter participation is good news, the recent surge is complicated by the fact that the registrations were submitted on paper. Texas is one of only 13 states not to have online voter registration.