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> how is voter suppression operating Well, one egregious example would be sending a SWAT team to arrest someone in the early morning because they were erroneously allowed to register but not to vote. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/08/florida-voter-fr... Or aggressively purging voter rolls in minority districts. https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lawsuit-alleges-ohio-illegally-p... Or closing voting sites in minori…
thanks. This is outrageous. How is it possible for these actions to occur, especially closing voting sites? Surely there should be federal mandate that there should be X number of voting sites per Y number of residents
For decades much of the south was under federal oversight because the suppression of black voting rights was so flagrant that Congress passed a law to impose some sanity, but the law was significantly hamstrung by the Supreme Court in 2013.