Voter Suppression Alive and Well on Super Tuesday 2020
You might remember voter suppression from being a big issue in, well, pretty much every American election ever. And Super Tuesday was no exception.
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Keeping Jim Crow Alive in Georgia With ‘Exact Match’
“Exact match” voter registration is a law enacted by the Republican-controlled Georgia state legislature; it carries on the infamous history of suppressing the African American vote in the Peach State.
Fantastic Didactic Weekend Flick Pick (June 9-11, 2017): Greg Palast’s ‘The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits’ (2016 Documentary) (VIDEO)
In this 2016 documentary centered around the 2016 presidential election, investigative reporter Greg Palast and his gumshoe side-kick Badpenny are on a mission to get their hands on the data, analyze it and go find some of these 7.2 million Americans tagged “suspects” and “potential duplicate voters” by Kris Kobach’s Interstate Crosscheck program.
The Election Was Stolen – Here’s How (VIDEO)
Starting in 2013 – just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act – a coterie of Trump operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color from the voter rolls of GOP–controlled states.
There Are 868 Fewer Places to Vote in 2016 Because the Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act
Nearly half of counties that previously approved voting changes with the federal government have cut polling places this election.