'Tidal wave of voter suppression' washes over states, lawyer says

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“What we are seeing in Waller County right now and a lot of other places is that the right to vote is still under attack,” John Cusick, a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said. - NBCBLK

citing cost concerns, announced that they would not make an early voting site available on the campus

A Tennessee law threatens third-party groups that register citizens to vote with criminal penalties if they make mistakes on forms or the forms arrive incomplete. The state’s governor, a Republican, said theAnd in Florida, state lawmakers overrode the results of a ballot initiative restoring voting rights to felons who have completed their sentences. Lawmakers who opposed the initiative insisted it was up to them to define what constitutes a completed sentence.

What’s happening “is tantamount to being asked how many beans are in a jar,” said Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., and the House majority whip, referring to the tactics being deployed around the country since the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision inThat 5-to-4 decision struck down portions of the Voting Rights Act, passed in the 1960s to counteract poll taxes, tests and other policies, as well as outright violence, that made it near impossible for most black Americans and many Latinos to vote.

Clyburn spoke days after an out-of-court settlement produced what he described as a critical victory for Democrats and for voting rights. The case was one of 11 the party has brought since 2018 after bringing two in the last election cycle. The policy in question is emblematic of the decisions shaping voter eligibility around the country.

 

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TelemachusRome JanellRoss The oligarchs tighten the noose

JanellRoss If voting does not count then why do we need voter suppression in our country?

MontePooleNBCS JanellRoss This is quite similar of the voting challenges faced by blacks where they had to pass a basic civics exam before being allowed to vote. We are eerily getting back to this type of voting requirements. It is targeted strikingly in predominately brown areas 🙄🤔

JanellRoss VoterID is a must.. Paper ballots .. Stop Ballot Harvesting.. State Sec of States must be held accountable , inc Alex Padilla of Cali.. So much corruption ..

JanellRoss Republican Party: We use our elected power to silence the voters & attain more power.

JanellRoss Time for pencil and paper.

JanellRoss This story should be front and center every day. Block the vote, should be the gop slogan

JanellRoss GOP can't win if they don't restrict typically Democrat voting areas ability to vote. Tells us something, doesn't it.

JanellRoss Pure hogwash

JanellRoss Voting is soooooo hard.

JanellRoss The biggest voter suppression ever seen was Hillary cheating Bernie.

JanellRoss In Texas, officials in mostly white Waller Co., citing cost concerns, announced that they would not make an early voting site available on campus of a historically black university. Then the state passed a law effectively requiring other communities to take similar action (2/5)

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JanellRoss No more lifetime appointments for Sup court justices! After 20yrs, retire

JanellRoss This headline is very vague. So I'm guessing it's extremely misleading.

NBCBLK Show your ID and vote what’s wrong with that. Either way you show your ID everywhere why not when you vote .

NBCBLK You have the right to vote - unless you’re gonna vote Democrat, and then we have the right to cheat you of your vote (paraphrasing billmaher)

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NBCBLK Tidal wave of voter suppression? This is objective reporting? Factual verified honest reporting? It’s time for you to turn out the lights. The BS/Party is over. G_CURLEY charliekirk11 HowieCarrShow TheKuhnerReport WSJ this isn’t NBCOpEd it’s supposedly news. PrisonPlanet

NBCBLK Does he go on and give evidence or does he just say stuff?

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NBCBLK Stop it!

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