Tag: voter suppression

“I think it’s quite interesting and coincidental … that many of them on that list are African American voters.”

Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have pledged to recognize the tribe, if elected.

“We’re becoming desensitized to unacceptable burdens on the franchise,” one political scientist said. “People died for this right. [It] shouldn’t take hours to participate in our democracy.”

“[Trump] wants a justice who will rule his way on the vote count, no matter what the facts or the law actually says.”

“That kind of closed-door session, where a head of the Civil Rights Division is secretly speaking about enforcement with partisan state officials, is unprecedented."

What we need now is to see a plethora of other states joining in these lawsuits that are charging Trump and DeJoy with deliberate voter suppression.

Voter suppression has gotten more sophisticated in recent elections.

It’s easy to get angry or worried and throw your hands up, but there is something you can do right now.

Amidst a global health crisis, the cruel weaponization of vote-by-mail restrictions has turned the constitutional right to vote into a choice between life and death.

I don’t for a minute believe that the Pew Trust is out to wipe away African-American voting rights; just the opposite, they are the quintessential do-gooders. They just don’t do any good.