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Look! A traffic jam…intentionally created for voters…who are disproportionately Black
It happened because OHs Sec-State required that the only drop box location of a county be at the ONLY in-person vote location of that county
Impressed, other states..
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Look! A traffic jam…intentionally created for voters…who are disproportionately Black
It happened because OHs Sec-State required that the only drop box location of a county be at the ONLY in-person vote location of that county
Impressed, other states..
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…are passing laws that would add the same inevitable traffic jams to their early vote locations
Georgia, for example, had many drop boxes in 2020. They were used by countless voters; but…far more by Black voters who voted for Biden.
So Georgia passed a law to not only…
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Georgia, for example, had many drop boxes in 2020. They were used by countless voters; but…far more by Black voters who voted for Biden.
So Georgia passed a law to not only…
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…reduce them, but to co-locate them with early vote centers.
Why? Traffic jams.
Intentional traffic jams. For disproportionately voters of color.
Iowa and Florida passed the same limitation.
A Wisconsin bill would do the same.
Texas banned drop boxes entirely.
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Why? Traffic jams.
Intentional traffic jams. For disproportionately voters of color.
Iowa and Florida passed the same limitation.
A Wisconsin bill would do the same.
Texas banned drop boxes entirely.
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To be clear, drop boxes were never viewed as partisan or controversial before 2020. They have them in Utah. And Alaska. No problems.
But because they were used disproportionately by voters of color, these statehouses are working to make them as impractical as possible.
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But because they were used disproportionately by voters of color, these statehouses are working to make them as impractical as possible.
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Just like after ‘10, they attacked the Obama coalition and the way it had voted as intensely as they could. (Early vote, young voters, purging, etc).
They target like a laser the way their opposition chooses to vote.
So, seeing Ohio’s traffic jams, they don’t ask…
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They target like a laser the way their opposition chooses to vote.
So, seeing Ohio’s traffic jams, they don’t ask…
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…how do we prevent them?
No, they ask, how do we re-create them as much as possible? How do we make this type of voting as inconvenient as possible?
So for drop boxes, they quickly adopted the Ohio model of guaranteed congestion and traffic jams.
Awful!
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No, they ask, how do we re-create them as much as possible? How do we make this type of voting as inconvenient as possible?
So for drop boxes, they quickly adopted the Ohio model of guaranteed congestion and traffic jams.
Awful!
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Here’s the good news.
The Freedom to Vote Act would disallow the attacks on drop boxes and intentional traffic jams we are seeing in states around the country. Along with other suppression practices.
Demand your Senator to pass it before going on recess.
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The Freedom to Vote Act would disallow the attacks on drop boxes and intentional traffic jams we are seeing in states around the country. Along with other suppression practices.
Demand your Senator to pass it before going on recess.
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And yes, there is so much more detail on all this awful stuff in my book Laboratories of Autocracy, how it’s getting worse, as well as how we fight back.
Please get it if you can.
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