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1/ Different forms of #VoterSuppression have been slowly increasing over the past decade. This has now reached a dangerous point for democracy -- via @BrennanCenter https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/new-voter-suppression
2/ For example, following the election and reelection of President Obama — and the concomitant surge in turnout by Black voters — states like North Carolina imposed new restrictions on early voting, which was disproportionately used by people of color.
3/ In 2019, Tennessee imposed new hurdles for third-party voter registration drives in response to a “large-scale effort to register black voters” ahead of the 2018 election.
4/ In 2017, Georgia enacted an “exact match” law mandating that voters’ names on registration records perfectly match their names on approved forms of ID - 80% of GA voters who were blocked by this in 2018 were people of color. (A lawsuit forced GA to largely end the law in 2019)
5/ The @BrennanCenter has documented a surge in voter purges — the sometimes error-prone process by which election officials remove allegedly ineligible voters from the rolls — in jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination in voting. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/voter-purge-rates-remain-high-analysis-finds
6/ This year more than 250 bills to curb or complicate access to polls had been introduced in 43 state legislatures as of February 19, according to the @BrennanCenter https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/state-voting-bills-tracker-2021
7/ We must keep fighting to stop voter suppression and activate automatic national voter registration. Currently, 18 states and Washington, DC, have automatic registration.
Expanding that requirement nationwide could enfranchise 50 million Americans! https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/policy-solutions/annotated-guide-people-act-2021#t1-sa-p2
Expanding that requirement nationwide could enfranchise 50 million Americans! https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/policy-solutions/annotated-guide-people-act-2021#t1-sa-p2
