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I suppose we expect more attempts for the next election - or will the new House try to stop it?
Voter-Suppression Tactics in the Age of Trump
By Jelani Cobb
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, ninety-nine bills designed to diminish voter access were introduced last year in thirty-one state legislatures. Many of the recent Republican-led efforts stem from the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby v. Holder. In an opinion that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that discrimination still exists, but not sufficiently to warrant the “extraordinary” remediation measures that the act imposed on the states of the former Confederacy. That argument is roughly equivalent to saying that a decline in the prevalence of an infectious disease means that we should stop vaccinating against it. Within hours of the decision, Texas announced a strict new voter-I.D. law. Mississippi and Alabama shortly afterward began enforcing similar laws that previously had been barred.
And don't forget what Wisconsin and North Carolina did to incoming Democrats, passing legislation that weakened them before they took over. Voters are easy to mislead, but you can't hide this from people, this is democracy under assault by Republicans.
The majority will not agree with this.
The GOP has no other choice at this point, their voters are old and dying, the new generation of twenty-somethings wants nothing to do with these weirdos, and the numbers are not in their favor. So they resort to disenfranchisement and Jim Crow laws.
The GOP has no other choice at this point, their voters are old and dying, the new generation of twenty-somethings wants nothing to do with these weirdos, and the numbers are not in their favor. So they resort to disenfranchisement and Jim Crow laws.
All should do what Oregon did as far as voting.
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