“If the purges [of potential voters], challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldn’t matter. It’s anything but random. For example, an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected. Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast.”

"[…] Democracy can win* despite the 2.3% suppression headwind.

And that’s our job as Americans: to end the purges, the vigilante challenges, the ballot rejections and the attitude that this is all somehow OK."

  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    I don’t get this repeated talking point. Do you just want people to say you were right? Do you want to quash discussion of politics?

    I have a feeling that comments like these, that point backward with blame and promote hopelessness, are foreign disinformation.

    They are pointless. Help or get out of the way.