Many things the Right and Republicans do make me angry, but one that pushes my buttons the fastest is their voter suppression.
One approach they've taken is purging voter rolls. They use the excuse that they're "cleaning up" the rolls, finding people who've moved or died, because those names could be used by fake voters who know those names are still on the rolls. Of course we know that the best-known recent examples where someone voted for a dead person, the fake voter was a Republican. And that there were few of those, because this kind of thing doesn't scale up to the kind of fraud needed to swing an election.
But that's not the point of Republican purges. They want to undermine faith in elections while also removing voters in areas where there are a lot of Democrats. Double win!
The latest example was just uncovered by the New York Times. Under guidance from Cleta Mitchell (who should have her law license revoked), they targeted Democratic areas in Michigan, Georgia, and Nevada. Three battleground states.
They pressured local elections officials to mass-remove names from the voter lists based on shallow critera. They called their campaign "Soles to the Rolls," a parody of Black get-out-the-vote efforts called Souls to the Poles. I'm sure the vote-suppressors would protest their name is an innocent homage to the other campaign, when I would say it's a racist dog whistle. (They think they'll bring soul to the poles? Wait until they get there and see the rolls!)
It's enough to make Jim Crow proud.
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