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#VoterSuppression

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“[A] recent study showed that in Alabama, the gap between white and Black voter turnout in the 2024 election was the highest since at least 2008. If nonwhite voters in Alabama had voted at the same rate as white voters, more than 200,000 additional ballots would have been cast.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 7, 2025
#votersuppression

TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won.

Trump lost. That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes.
hartmannreport.com/p/trump-los

The Hartmann Report · TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won.By Greg Palast
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Indiana has practically the lowest voter turnout in America. @bolts’s @taniel reports on efforts that will probably make it even lower. “Legislation banning the use of student IDs for voting passed the state Senate with near unanimous Republican support in early February and now sits with the GOP-run House,” he writes.

boltsmag.org/indiana-banning-s

Bolts · Indiana Republicans Move to Ban Student IDs for Voting - BoltsThe new restriction, paired with Indiana’s stringent voter ID rules, would make it much harder for many young people to vote in a state that already ranks near-last in turnout.
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@gemelliz

People not receiving their voter card well before election day seems pretty deliberate and just stinks to high hell of #votersuppression.

Politics is really toxic and people only have a certain bandwidth of what they can process - so filtering out all of the #election information is a way of dealing with the onslaught of information and disinformation. So, people are relying on getting their voter card to let them know about the election. If you don't know, you don't vote.

In the 1800s, they used poll taxes; in the Jim Crow era, literacy tests. Now it’s the SAVE Act, a shiny new label for an old agenda: silencing millions of voters. Let’s break down this blatant assault on democracy and remember how hard people fought for the right to vote—and why we can’t give it up now. forgottenfiles.substack.com/p/ #history #VotingRights #DemocracyMatters #NoSAVEAct #VoterSuppression #ProtectTheBallot