(07-30-2020, 01:00 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(07-30-2020, 11:50 AM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote: I still think that the GOP strategy of shutting down voting precincts in the uban areas is pretty creative.

I haven't heard about that one.

Up until 2013, federal law required certain states and counties to get approval from federal department of Justice before they changed any aspect of their voting procedure.
The supreme Court said that policy was out of date in 2013, and since that time those areas have closed a lot of polling places.
People are assuming that this is being done in a way to discourage poor and non-white people from voting, but it's not necessarily so.
here's an article that attempts to present both sides of the argument:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-el...SKCN1VV09J

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