Saturday, 24 November 2018

Here's how Republicans hijacked a bill designed to 'Help America Vote' — and used it to block people from voting

Here's how Republicans hijacked a bill designed to 'Help America Vote' — and used it to block people from voting

GOP voter suppression is the best answer to significant discrepancies between exit polls and actual vote counts. There’s a fascinating history to what Joe Madison calls “James Crow, Esq., voting suppression”—and that history tells us what we can do to solve the problem of Republicans using the Help America Vote Act to block people from voting in largely Democratic areas.It started with the 2000 election “debacle” in Florida.
Read more: https://www.alternet.org/election-03918/how-gop-using-help-america-vote-act-block-voting?source=Snapzu

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