1/6 Your daily reminder that Republican voter suppression at the state level poses a far greater threat to democracy than Trump's impeachable actions on Ukraine. Republican judges and legislatures are purging hundreds of thousands of voters from voter rolls state like Georgia.
2/6 In Wisconsin a judge ordered 230,000 removed from voter rolls, in a state Trump won by 23,000 votes.
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3/6 Ohio tried to purge 240,000 people from voter rolls this fall, and at least 40,000 shouldn't have been on it. nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/…
4/6 According to the Brennan Center, " 4 million more people were purged from the rolls btw 2014 and 2016 than btw 2006 and 2008," mostly in states previously covered by pre- clearance under the Voting Rights Act: brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…
5/6 Journalist Greg Palast has been following voter purges in Georgia, Colorado, Indiana, Nevada, Illinois, Nebraska, and North Carolina, among others, suing to get state-level data on purged voters that Republican legislatures have fought to keep secret.
6/6 Trump richly deserves impeachment for attempting to rig the 2020 election in his favor. But Republican governors, judges, and legislators are trying to achieve the same goal by purging and blocking millions of voters at the state level. americanprogress.org/issues/democra…
