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usonian

(19,166 posts)
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 11:29 AM Yesterday

Nine Ways To Suppress African American Votes--the Republican Playbook Opinion (Newsweek)

https://www.newsweek.com/nine-ways-suppress-african-american-votes-republican-playbook-opinion-2100901
Published Jul 21, 2025
By Stephen Legomsky
John S. Lehmann University Professor Emeritus, Washington University School of Law

1. Make voter registration harder.
2. Purge registered voters.
3. Require photo IDs.
4. Require documents that prove U.S. citizenship.
5. Slash early voting.
6. Limit ballot drop boxes.
7. Restrict third-party delivery of absentee ballots.
8. Disenfranchise citizens with criminal convictions.
9. Selectively close polling stations.

This is not democracy.

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JustAnotherGen

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Mon Jul 21, 2025, 11:39 AM
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I think that's why many of us are laser focused on the Authoritarian Dictatorship and its intolerable acts against US Citizens.

What is freedom "globally" to this Black woman who descends from survivors of Jim Crow?

Nothing. It never existed, we aren't the freedom people of the world. We are shit sandwich.

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