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#VotingRights #VoterSurpression #StacyAbrahms #2021年

As we've seen it's only gotten worse since 2021:

"...according to the Brennan Center for Justice, Republicans have proposed more than 250 voter suppression bills in 43 states, leaning on the decentralization of election laws that limit an eligible voter's registration access and ability to vote depending on the state in which the voter lives. Black and brown voters in Georgia, Latinx and Native American voters in Arizona and young voters in New Hampshire are particularly vulnerable. In each of these states, these voters have played a critical role in statewide Democratic victories, despite Republican domination of the governorship and the state legislatures.
Across the country, many Republicans have weaponized the 2020 election lies as the impetus to propose sweeping efforts to suppress voter access. The litany of proposed changes is dizzying -- from making voting by mail more difficult by eliminating no-excuse absentee voting, to limiting early voting options to restricting ballot drop box locations." Opinion by Stacey Abrams 3/17/21

University of Wisconsin-Madison: Research shows social media advertising suppresses voting in targeted communities. “Messages intended to suppress votes can be precisely delivered to particularly vulnerable and consequential groups of people via social media and keep millions of them from casting ballots, according to a new study that is the first to quantify the effect of this kind of […]

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LWV of Florida Analysis Shows #Florida Senate’s Proposed #RedistrictingMaps Underrepresent Minorities - League of Women Voters of Florida

#votersurpression #gerrymandering #US #TheStates

The League of Women Voters of Florida believes the Florida Senate’s proposed plans for Florida’s new congressional and state Senate districts violate the

https://lwvfl.org/lwv-of-florida-analysis-shows-florida-senates-proposed-redistricting-maps-underrepresent-minorities/