Thread by @digitalsista

America takes actions to prevent people from voting. Gerrymandering, redistricting, dividing colleges in half to dilute the power of their vote, moving polling places, stripping the right from those that have already served their time. Voter ID laws, intimidation, gutting the VRA

https://twitter.com/AliVelshi/status/1319974488977641472

In Florida now another form of poll taxes by removing those that owe the state any fees. Holding up registrations. finding excuses to purge people from the rolls like exact match. Now during the pandemic TX removing ballot boxes instead of increasing them.

Telling people they can't come in to vote with a mask on using voter id as the weapon. Using exact match on signatures to throw out ballots. Slowing down the mail. Forcing people to have provisional votes cast. Changing the rules in last few weeks to confuse voters.

Now we see @CGHollins Harris county clerk has done. One person can make a difference. This is why who becomes Secretary of State and county clerks matter.

Increased polling places, drive through voting, early voting. motherjones.com/2020-elections…

his quote: “Efforts to suppress votes in Texas and across the South have very often been done in secret, in smoke-filled rooms, in ways the public can’t fully digest,” he says. “

But now we have digital voter suppression because of big tech. And those that ignored the problem. They missed the fact that Black voters were targeting by both domestic campaigns and foreign actors. They missed it because they are used to us being targeted and not protected.

But those who are targeted don't miss this. We are the ones that see it before anyone else. There are so many people claiming to see it now when they denied it before.

When Zuck was told his first response was to say it was absurd. businessinsider.com/facebook-russi…

We documented as the first to report how there were NO other groups targeted like African Americans. This isn't to deny that other groups were targeted by not on the level as we have been and it's historical on this land. stoponlinevaw.com/wp-content/upl…

I monitored the behavior of the Digital Arm - Project Alamo who had a three-part voter suppression campaign. on that list was Black Voters. They told us and no one listened. But the key missing factor is Facebook and Cambridge Analytica had offices there. businessinsider.com/donald-trump-v…

And here we are finally learning that 3.5 million Black Americans were profiled as deterrence by a Presidental campaign and the RNC. We call that digital voter suppression. Yet some folks are still shrugging about us being targeted. channel4.com/news/revealed-…

I've even had those within my community debate me about the impact when we discovered at least five campaigns designed solely on getting Black voters to leave the Democratic party in our second report on Digital Voter Suppression. stoponlinevaw.com/wp-content/upl…

Here is just one of them from our report. realityteam.org/cards/election…

We have defined digital voter suppression for those that don't understand what we are discussing here. Share it with others so they know.

stoponlinevaw.com/digital-voter-…

Those that will ask me about impact. in Michigan, 90k people made it through physical voter suppression hurdles. Got to the Ballot box and didn't vote top of the ticket. 70k in Detroit. And he won that state by 11k. The campaign run by Russia was that there were both the same.

That "both the same" campaign has evolved but it's still going on and the majority of those with these talking points are now mostly domestic.

but here are some stories about what it looks like online. facebook.com/watch/?v=36513…

And now I'm going to tell you that you can do something about it. Join us @stopovaw in working to Stop Digital Voter Suppression™.

StopDigitalVoterSuppression.net