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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Alex MG who wrote (4283)1/2/2017 1:20:23 PM
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If your going to blame rampant voter suppression for political results you might start presenting some actual evidence for serious voter suppression.

Requiring a photo ID simply isn't. Different racial groups having different percentages of people with photo IDs doesn't make it so. If someone seriously wants to vote they can get a photo ID.

A ban on early voting also isn't suppression. You can vote on election day or send in a absentee ballot.

Things like chasing voters off with violence and/or threats was voter suppression. Literacy test were suppression of votes from illiterate voters (and for some number of cases for literate voters as well, if the people scoring the tests were the ones wanting the suppression). Calling modest inconveniences "voter suppression" robs the term of any important meaning.
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