She was the winner of the 2014 Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism. In October, residents of a mostly Black poor Detroit neighborhood got robocalls warning that voting by mail could lead to debt collections and even being forced to take vaccinations. All Rights As far back as the 1980s, Republicans put together a legal strategy and formed a network of lawyers devoted to suppressing the vote of racial and ethnic minorities as much as possible.

Of course he said the same thing in 2016 without even that much explanation, so it's clear that this is just his all-purpose excuse for any possible defeat. As with everything else in the Trump era, such adherence to old-fashioned notions of right and wrong are no longer operative. Trump’s reasoning is based on the results of recent presidential elections. These demographic facts have led the GOP and its supporters to spend $20 million on 300 court cases to oppose state and local laws that make it easier to vote, according to the Center for Public Integrity.

The president, however, claims he is fighting voter fraud. Second, opportunities for expansion and reduction are different in different states. You can cancel anytime. Don’t be judgmental. Shutterstock / The Atlantic. After all that, it's a bit much to see establishment Republicans express shock at what's happening in this election. SALON ® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. Statewide initiatives to measure the scope of jail-based disenfranchisement have found that many jail officials don’t provide detainees with any information about voting at all. Moreover, people will no longer have the excuses of not having a driver’s license or an expired registration for not voting. The Republican standard-bearer has such a big mouth and is so crudely dishonest that they really have little choice in the matter. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. Market data provided by Factset. Voter suppression is a climate justice issue — and 2020 is the tipping point By Tamara Toles O’Laughlin and Peggy Shepard on Oct 30, 2020 The world of …

Finally, citizens must call out media outlets that refuse to report voter suppression. Many of the worst voter suppression cases involve identification. Until an organizer from Pillars of the Community reached out and asked him if he’d like to get paid $17 an hour to register voters inside the jail, he had just assumed he and those around him couldn’t vote. The state Supreme Court upheld an executive order from Republican Gov. Thus, numerous allegations of voter suppression and abuse have been against Kemp.