Donald Trump and his supporters like to talk about voter fraud which is a myth the Republican Party likes to propagate as a way to try and mask their true intentions, which is to suppress voter turnout, because their white supremacist-elite friendly policies grow less and less popular by the day.
Some Trump supporters, or rather, all Trump supporters think along the lines like this:
The reality is that voting laws are not protecting, but rather preventing Americans from voting.
Since 2010, 24 states have made it harder for Americans to vote, Alabama has a voter ID law that civil rights groups claimed was racially discriminatory, while states like Ohio and Georgia have laws that state that if someone hasn't voted in a certain amount of time, they will knock you off the registration rolls.
Journalist Ari Berman, has written the book Give Us the Ballot, argues that the Supreme Court's Shelby County vs Holder ruling has allowed the Republican Party to restrict voting.
"(That) decision said that those states with the longest histories of discrimination no longer had to approve their voting changes with the federal government," said Berman in an interview with NPR. Because of the Supreme Court ruling, "You're seeing a national effort by the Republican Party to restrict voting rights, and it's playing out in states all across the country."
Two states that haven been in the news for voter suppression has been Georgia and North Dakota.
Georgia has closed 214 polling places in recent years, cut back on early voting, purged 10 percent of its voting rolls, and from 2012 to 2016, over a million and a half people have been purged from voting rolls.
Furthermore, secretary of state Brian Kemp, has blocked 53,000 voter registrations in the state of Georgia. 70 percent of those voter registrations are African Americans, and 80 percent of the registrations are from people of color.
Voting laws in Georgia has left people confused, for those pending voters could show up to vote at polling places, but because they receive letters stating that their registrations are still pending they do not understand that they could still vote. And it's not as though the secretary of state is going to do much to help make it clearer.
In North Dakota, they are supressing the vote of Native Americans living on reservations. The Supreme Court has recently upheld a new voter ID law that states you have to have a current residential street address on your voting ID. For North Dakota Native Americans living on a reservation, they get their mail at the Post Office using P.O. boxes.
These new voting laws could likely mean that GOP hopeful for Senate, Kevin Cramer, will win for Sen. Heidi Heitkamp won by just 2,900 votes in 2012.
So they you go The Trump Train, you're getting your wish, and now go fuck yourself and go to hell....
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