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Voter Suppression in 2018
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According to the Brennan Center, at least 15 states are currently dealing with voting rights litigation.

The State of Voting Rights Litigation

https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/state-voting-rights-litigation
Florida's litigation is Hurricane Michael related. The others mostly deal with restriction of registration or of voting, via voter ID laws.

The Atlantic had a great article on the problem back in July.

Voter Suppression Is Warping Democracy

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/poll-prri-voter-suppression/565355/

The new data support perhaps the worst-case scenario offered by opponents of restrictive voting laws. Nine percent of black respondents and 9 percent of Hispanic respondents indicated that, in the last election, they (or someone in their household) were told that they lacked the proper identification to vote. Just 3 percent of whites said the same. Ten percent of black respondents and 11 percent of Hispanic respondents reported that they were incorrectly told that they weren’t listed on voter rolls, as opposed to 5 percent of white respondents. In all, across just about every issue identified as a common barrier to voting, black and Hispanic respondents were twice as likely, or more, to have experienced those barriers as white respondents.

The numbers not only suggest that policies such as voter-ID requirements and automatic voter purges do, indeed, have strong racial and ethnic biases, but also that there are more subtle barriers for people of color that compound the effects of these laws. Fifteen percent of black respondents and 14 percent of Hispanic respondents said that they had trouble finding polling places on Election Day, versus 5 percent of whites. This finding squares with research indicating that frequent changes to polling-site locations hurt minority voters more.


Surprising that this problem endures decades into the 21st century.
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Voter Suppression in 2018 - Dill - 10-18-2018, 01:57 AM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - Dill - 10-18-2018, 02:12 AM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - BmorePat87 - 10-18-2018, 09:02 AM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - Dill - 10-18-2018, 11:50 AM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - Yojimbo - 10-18-2018, 10:25 AM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - PhilHos - 10-18-2018, 11:10 AM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - Dill - 10-18-2018, 11:46 AM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - jj22 - 10-18-2018, 11:50 AM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - Benton - 10-18-2018, 12:14 PM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - fredtoast - 10-18-2018, 05:14 PM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - Dill - 10-19-2018, 01:56 AM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - Nately120 - 10-19-2018, 06:55 PM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - Dill - 10-22-2018, 03:00 PM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - Nately120 - 10-22-2018, 03:22 PM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - Dill - 10-22-2018, 05:09 PM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - Belsnickel - 10-22-2018, 08:49 AM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - Belsnickel - 10-22-2018, 08:57 AM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - GMDino - 10-22-2018, 09:34 AM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - Belsnickel - 10-22-2018, 09:36 AM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - Dill - 10-22-2018, 10:08 PM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - Dill - 10-22-2018, 10:15 PM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - GMDino - 10-23-2018, 10:26 PM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - GMDino - 10-23-2018, 10:52 PM
RE: Voter Suppression in 2018 - Dill - 10-24-2018, 01:53 PM

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