“If the purges [of potential voters], challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldn’t matter. It’s anything but random. For example, an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected. Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast.”

"[…] Democracy can win* despite the 2.3% suppression headwind.

And that’s our job as Americans: to end the purges, the vigilante challenges, the ballot rejections and the attitude that this is all somehow OK."

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    Why don’t you ever try and actually meet the other side in good faith?

    Opponents of voter ID have a very simple line of argumentation, and very clear issues that would need to be solved. Why do you think proponents of voter ID never attempt to solve these issues?

    Why do proponents always insist that voter ID has to be implemented in a way that happens to hurt minority voters disproportionately?

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      Why don’t you ever try and actually meet the other side in good faith?

      You first

      Opponents of voter ID have a very simple line of argumentation, and very clear issues that would need to be solved.

      Like?

      Why do you think proponents of voter ID never attempt to solve these issues?

      You don’t name them or they’re aren’t an actual issue

      Why do proponents always insist that voter ID has to be implemented in a way that happens to hurt minority voters disproportionately?

      They don’t