RE: flipboard.com/@associatedpress

this is completely against the Voting Rights Act ―because proof has never been enough for fascists.

they will demand you look exactly like whatever photo they decide is you and write exactly the signature they decide is yours. oh, you don't live in the same address? can’t vote. forget about transitioning: you’re a cis woman who had plastic surgery? too bad.

ALL OF THESE EXCUSES WERE USED BEFORE THE

white people, the fascists are coming for your right to vote.

@blogdivayour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 when John Roberts—may he suffer forever—killed the VRA, it was part of the record of facts that there was an upheld challenge, lawsuit, or VRA-required modification to state law an average of once a week in a 25 year period during which the VRA was active.

“I wanna talk really quick, some numbers that Ginsburg's dissent has, that I think are interesting, that go to how much progress has or has not been made that, again, the majority opinion doesn't really deal with. And so she talks about, look, under pre-clearance in between 1982 and 2006, 25 years, the DOJ had to reject 700 different attempted voter law changes because they were discriminatory. There were, on top of that, 100 successful lawsuits after the fact that the laws were found to be discriminatory. And on top of that, there were 800 instances where the DOJ didn't outright reject, but required modifications of a law to reduce racial discrimination, which if you add it up, comes out to 1600 instances over 25 years, which averages out to one every six days for 25 years straight, the DOJ was dealing with racial discrimination in voting laws just in these districts, not in the country, just in these districts, once a week.”
fivefourpod.com/episodes/shelb

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