March 7, 2016

DEMOCRATIC DISENFRANCHISEMENT:

5 Reasons Democrats Need To Be Terrified About November (National Memo, March 7, 2016)

Voter suppression works.

This is the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act, and the results have already been terrifying -- and almost completely ignored by the media. "Eight out of the 16 states that have held primaries or caucuses so far have implemented new voter ID or other restrictive voting laws since 2010," The Huffington Post reports. "Democratic turnout has dropped 37 percent overall in those eight states, but just 13 percent in the states that didn't enact new voter restrictions. To put it another way, Democratic voter turnout was 285 percent worse in states with new voter ID laws." And voter ID laws are just the beginning. Kansas has disenfranchised 37,000 residents, including a 13-year Air Force veteran, by adding completely unnecessary requirements to vote. 

It's not suppression when we do it.
Posted by at March 7, 2016 5:31 PM

  

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