“If the purges [of potential voters], challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldn’t matter. It’s anything but random. For example, an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected. Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast.”

"[…] Democracy can win* despite the 2.3% suppression headwind.

And that’s our job as Americans: to end the purges, the vigilante challenges, the ballot rejections and the attitude that this is all somehow OK."

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    Good thing the Democrats did something about this…

    …by introducing a bill that predictably died in the Senate because they were once again too chicken to challenge the filibuster and attempt to act in their own sense of self-preservation.

    Wield power or see it wielded against you.