Voter Suppression Tactics
🗳️3.5 million votes were purged from voter rolls before the 2020 election, potentially denying Kamala Harris a winning margin.
🏛️Voter ID laws, like the one in South Carolina, disproportionately affect minority communities and young voters by requiring specific new forms of ID.
🗺️Gerrymandering shapes voting districts to minimize representation of certain racial groups, guaranteeing success for Republicans.
Disproportionate Impact on Minorities
👥Voter suppression tactics disproportionately affected people of color and young voters in the 2020 election.
📊Georgia had 4.7 million total voter purges, with 198,000 voters wrongly removed, overwhelmingly affecting voters of color.
📝Black voters are 400% more likely to have their mail-in ballots rejected compared to white voters.
Electoral System Challenges
🗳️Provisional ballots have a 43% rejection rate overall, disproportionately affecting black, Hispanic, Latino, and Asian American voters.
🏛️The Electoral College was designed to give rural votes more weight than urban votes, enabling minority regions to hold marginal regional power.
Historical Context
📜Republican states and counties have historically used methods like poll tests and literacy tests to disenfranchise black and brown voters since the Civil Rights Movement.
Specific State Examples
🧑🎓In Wisconsin, almost every voter removed by the purge was either a Black voter in Milwaukee or a student in Madison.