Voter Suppression

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• SOURCE: WCNC
  4/11/2021
  

  'The Truth is, Our Elections are Very, Very Secure': Winthrop Professor Debunks Basis for Restrictive Voting Laws

  Political scientist Scott Huffman says that despite claims of fraudulent voting, democracy has historically and recently been threatened more by efforts to restrict the vote. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  3/25/2021
  

  What Jim Crow looks like in 2021

  by Nicole Hemmer

  The most relevant aspect of Jim Crow today isn't the Klan, but the "color blind" legislation that Southern conservatives used to circumvent the Fifteenth Amendment. 

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• SOURCE: Bill Moyers
  12/15/2020
  

  Decades of Inequality Shadow Voter Turnout in Rural Georgia

  A small-town voter drive reveals why only trusted family, friends and local leaders can boost turnout in the Senate runoffs.

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• SOURCE: Saturday Evening Post
  10/27/2020
  

  Considering History: Voter Suppression and Racial Terrorism, the Twin Pillars of White Supremacy

  by Ben Railton

  Voter suppression has consistently gone hand in hand with racial terrorism to prop up white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10/23/23
  

  Don’t Reboot the 2016 Horror Show

  by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

  Avoiding the subject of the racist and sexist constraints on American politics ensures those limitations can derail democracy again. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  10/15/2020
  

  Republican Voter Suppression Efforts were Banned for Decades. Here's what Changed

  by Kevin M. Kruse

  In 2020, as in 1981, the realities of voter fraud don't matter. Republicans are insisting that their very real efforts at voter intimidation are warranted because they insist that Democrats have done or will do or possibly might do something much worse. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  10/1/2020
  

  Trump’s War on Election Integrity Follows a Racist Playbook Used in 1980s Orange County

  Orange County's popular historian Gustavo Arellano recounts a 1988 election day featuring the kind of nativist fearmongering about fraudulent voting coming from the White House today.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/6/2020
  

  Our Long, Forgotten History of Election-Related Violence

  by Jelani Cobb

  A weather forecast is not a prediction of the inevitable. We are not doomed to witness a catastrophic tempest this fall, but anyone who is paying attention knows that the winds have begun to pick up. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/11/2020
  

  Trump Reveals the Truth About Voter Suppression

  by David W. Blight

  The president is the latest in a long line of conservative politicians to see minority voters as a threat.

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• SOURCE: NowThis
  2/7/20
  

  Historian Carol Anderson On Voter Suppression

  “This kind of silent, quiet bureaucratic violence, where policies are wiping out the voting rights of millions of Americans, that's the piece that is absolutely stunning for my students,” she explained.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/8/19
  

  For Stacey Abrams, a Date With History — or at Least the People Who Write It

  Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost the 2018 race for Georgia governor, visited the Library Company of Philadelphia for a conversation on voter suppression with historians Carol Anderson, Heather Ann Thompson, Heather Cox Richardson, and Kevin Kruse.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/31/19
  

  Voter suppression carries slavery's three-fifths clause into the present

  by Imani Perry

  The Georgia governor’s election was the latest example of how James Madison’s words continue to shape our views on race.

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• SOURCE: Emory University Press Release
  9-24-18
  

  What Carol Anderson tells people who say they don’t understand what is so hard about requiring voters to show an ID

  “All of those little things that sound ‘fiscally responsible’ or ‘absolutely necessary to maintain the integrity of the ballot box’ are not designed to enhance the integrity of democracy, but in fact undermine that integrity.”

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• 4/22/18
  

  The Long and Despicable Roots of Voter Suppression and Similar Tactics

  by Frank Palmeri and Ted Wendelin

  They go back to the very origins of the country when the white South sought to dominate politics.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9-13-17
  

  America's shameful history of voter suppression

  Voter fraud is more rare than being struck by lightning, yet the fear-mongering persists. Don’t blame Donald Trump – blame America’s democratic model.

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• 11-27-16
  

  What Grade Would the State Department Give to Our Own Election?

  by John Dickson

  We wouldn’t get high marks for democracy, that’s for sure.