Voter Suppresion or Disfranchisement, call it what you will.

LAST POINT THEN IM GOIN ICE FISHING.

No matter what the reason (overt or otherwise), whenever one person one vote is not met, THAT , to me, IS VOTER SUPPRESSION. punkt

Youve gotta try to stop living in the 19th century. This is 2020, MMXX.
Peopleelect the president and the electoral college is supposed to represent the desires of the voters. Thats the way it is NOW. Stop sounding like James Buchanan

We are a Federal Republic made up of 50 states. Let me know when that changes.

Report: Supreme Court ruling caused mass polling place closures across Southern USA
Nicquel Terry Ellis
USA TODAY 12 Sept 2019

ATLANTA – Nearly 1,700 voting precincts in 13 states have been shut down since 2012, many in black or Latino communities, after a landmark court decision that removed federal oversight of local voting practices, according to a new report.

The report, released this week by the Leadership Conference Education Fund, showed a surge in poll closures after a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2013 that gutted a section of the Voting Rights Act requiring certain states and cities obtain federal approval before changing voting laws or practices.

After the law, which targeted communities with a history of voter discrimination, was struck down, Texas saw 750 polling locations closed, Arizona lost 320, and Georgia shut down 214, according to the report "Democracy Diverted: Polling Place Closures and the Right to Vote."

Voting rights advocates argued the court's decision in Shelby County v. Holder made it easier for elections officials to disenfranchise black and minority voters. From 2012 to 2018, a total of 1,688 polling locations closed.

Leigh Chapman, voting rights program director for the Leadership Conference Education Fund, said the mass polling place closures are a form of voter suppression. In many cases, she said, voters were not informed their voting precinct was closed or relocated.

“This (study) is a really important part of the record to justify why we need to restore the Voting Rights Act and why communities of color have been negatively impacted by discriminatory voting laws and policies," said Chapman, who wrote the report.

Voting rights advocates lobby lawmakers to pass the Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore the Department of Justice's mandate to approve local voting practice changes.

Georgia's counties saw a higher percentage of polling location closures than any other state. According to the report, Lumpkin County, a majority-white county in the north central part of the state, closed 89% of its polling places. Warren County, a majority-black county east of Atlanta, closed 83%.

The accelerated closures left seven counties in Georgia with just one polling place to serve hundreds of square miles.

In Texas, the counties of Dallas, Travis and Harris led with the most polling place closures. All three counties have a high population of black and Latino voters. The closures were part of a statewide effort to centralize voting centers.

“The people enacting these changes often count on no one noticing when they make the changes," said Beth Stevens, voting rights program director of the Texas Civil Rights Project. "It’s a choice that so often falls on the most vulnerable voters."

Georgia election officials were criticized last year for closing or consolidating precincts in black neighborhoods, making it harder for voters. Long lines at some Atlanta-area precincts forced voters to wait several hours to cast their ballot.

The November 2018 election in Georgia gained national attention when Stacy Abrams vied to be the nation's first black female governor. She lost to Gov. Brian Kemp after a bitterly fought election.

The Leadership Conference Education Fund report cites a 2015 memo from Kemp, who was secretary of that state at the time, to county officials encouraging them to merge polling places. Kemp mentioned twice in the memo that Shelby v. Holder removed the requirement to submit polling place changes to the Department of Justice, the report says.

A spokeswoman for the Georgia Secretary of State's Office said state law allows individual counties to independently "determine the appropriate amount of polling locations for their jurisdictions, whether decreasing or increasing depending on several factors, including geography and cost."

Nse Ufot, executive director of the New Georgia Project, a group that works to register and engage Georgia voters, was pleased to see the report. She called the closures "a surreptitious way to suppress the vote.”

Ufot calls on voting rights groups to work together to monitor the decisions by elections officials across the state.

“Voter suppression is much more sophisticated than it has been in previous decades, which requires us to come up with more sophisticated solutions," she said. "The threat exists, and our elections infrastructure needs to be defended from bad actors at every level of government."

a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC let me know when you understand what that means.

It would eliminate a lot of the disparity between large and small states that you keep hysterically yammering about.

We don't want those black and Latino people voting in liberal congressmen. Damn upstart colored people.

Don't be racist RABEL. There is no place for that here.

That's what you're forced to rely on, your inability to understand irony.

Strange you felt compelled to share that with us. You've always been quite consistent in your credulity.

Its tue , I do yammer, but my ymmerings re founded upon principles of fact and logic. You realize how many actual voting acts and amendment hve been added to our Constitution and how many election laws have been added to the CFR?? since 1790?
Ill let you think about what youre talking about and try to figure out where your tricycle left the pavement.

There are no facts and no logic to be found in your posts. Your yammering is founded upon hysteria and name-calling.

thank you, I welcome all input. Even those, like yours, that are fact-free.

Your lack of honor is shameful. I've provided plenty of facts.

if you say so.

Feel Better?

I wasn't feeling bad to begin with. A bit bored perhaps. It'd be nice to have a conversation with an intelligent person who disagrees with me.

On the other hand, a discussion with an intelligent adversary would take more of my time, and I'm actually a bit busy doing something else right now, so maybe it's for the best that I don't have a serious adversary at the moment.

Im so proud of you grasshopper. Next steps in your training is WAX ON, WAX OFF.

I don't require training. Unlike you, I am already competent in these subjects.

Its always good to have some goals in life grasshopper but, intelligent people do not believe that mere osmosis is a learning tool.

You are either
1 a bf liar or

2. Not too bright


CHOOSE ONE.

Neither are true.

My IQ is 170, which is vastly higher than your IQ. That's why I am capable of providing intelligent arguments and you are not.

And I always tell the truth.