“If the purges [of potential voters], challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldn’t matter. It’s anything but random. For example, an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected. Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast.”
"[…] Democracy can win* despite the 2.3% suppression headwind.
And that’s our job as Americans: to end the purges, the vigilante challenges, the ballot rejections and the attitude that this is all somehow OK."
It’s not as difficult to get ID in many other countries
It’s not difficult in the US
It’s harder than it should be
Harder than going to the place that gives them out and asking for one? I’m not going to hold your hand
If only it were that easy!
It is, I’ve done it many times
I am very happy it has been easy for you. From what I have read that is not the case for many
You’ve never done it?
I have, in my country, where it’s relatively easy, but since I know this question is coming. Here is a source for you.
https://www.voteriders.org/impact-of-id-barriers/
Are you white? Are you not living in poverty?
They didn’t ask
So that’s a yes to both.
Cute, though, that you’re trying to pretend that no one can tell what color your skin is and unable to tell whether or not you are wearing tattered old clothes. That’s a level of white privilege I rarely encounter.