Voting As a Constitutional Right: What A Real “Protect The Vote” Movement Would Look Like | Common Dreams
"To be sure, the right wing vote stealers are well-practiced, in many jurisdictions, in tactics like sending the most broken down voting machines to the poorest areas, ruling millions of would-be voters off the rolls with felony-conviction restructions. Lazy pundits like Michael Eric Dyson lean on the discredited myth that Ralph Nader's Green vote in 2000 cost Al Gore the election. But Gore's home state of Tennessee alone, which George Bush carried, ruled half a million ex-felons, most of them black and all of them poor, off the ballot, and more than a dozen other states where his margin was thin did the same. There's vote caging, in which categories of voters are identified and targeted with misleading information about their eligibility to vote or selectively challenged. And in addition to all these, voter ID laws have been enacted in twenty or thirty states specifically aimed at lowering the number of eligible voters among the demographic groups least likely to vote Republican."
