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Tuesday, July 24th, 2018

Voter purges are on the rise in states with a history of racial discrimination

Author:     Li Zhou
Source:     VOX
Publication Date:     Jul 20, 2018, 3:11pm EDT
 Link: Voter purges are on the rise in states with a history of racial discrimination
Stephan:   If you live in a state controlled by Republicans, and you are a person of color, you had better check to see if you are still registered. The Republican Party of Lincoln has morphed into a racist nativist party of aging Whites, who choose personal interest over democracy, and the Party is doing everything it can think of to make it difficult or impossible for young people and people of color to vote. It's shameful and disgusting but this is America in the second decade of the twenty-first century, and that's where we are.

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States are kicking a growing number of voters off their rolls in the wake of a 2013 Supreme Court decision that invalidated a key part of the Voting Rights Act.

The rate of voter purges — a sometimes faulty process that states use to clean their voter rolls — is significantly higher than it was a decade ago, according to a new report from NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice.

This increase coincides with a 2013 Supreme Court decision, which struck down a part of the Voting Rights Act that required nine states with a history of racial discrimination to obtain federal approval when altering their election laws.

The spike is notable. Between 2006 and 2008, 12 million voters were purged from voter rolls. Between 2014 and 2016, that number rose to 16 million — a roughly 33 percent increase.

Brennan Center researchers also found a major surge in voter purges in the places that had previously been subject to federal preclearance under the Voting Rights Act. Several states — including […]

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