Republicans passed these laws for the sole purpose of suppressing votes, and they succeeded: Up to 40% of voters in some Texas counties have had their ballots rejected.
Yet the GOP and conservative media had a full-scale meltdown when anyone called them “voter suppression laws.”
Yet the GOP and conservative media had a full-scale meltdown when anyone called them “voter suppression laws.”
https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1492495877923119113
Like literacy tests, today’s voter suppression laws are neutral on their face.
Like literacy tests, they are defended as minor burdens to safeguard “election integrity.”
Like literacy tests, their purpose and effect is to suppress votes. And they are often quite successful.
Like literacy tests, they are defended as minor burdens to safeguard “election integrity.”
Like literacy tests, their purpose and effect is to suppress votes. And they are often quite successful.
New voting restrictions in Texas and Georgia exemplify the “second-generation barriers” that RBG warned about: pointless administrative burdens that confuse and deter voters without *openly* discriminating on the basis of race or political association. slate.com/news-and-polit…
When progressives call these restrictions “voter suppression laws,” Republicans (and their conservative media allies) pitch a hissy fit because they are eager to keep up the charade that gratuitous impediments to the ballot are merely for “election integrity.” Don’t believe it.
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