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Originally Posted by bc-chris
New Era - thanks for your post. i'm wondering if you could clarify/expand on one point....
are there less places to vote making it more difficult?
i can't imagine that they are denied access to a voting location due to skin colour becuz that would be all over the news.
i'm just curious as to some examples.
it's quite sad and totally not right if stuff is happening to restrict people from voting.
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Did you not see the furor over the Texas governor reducing the number of polling stations before voting day? It just so happens that the most affected areas were minority populations, I'm sure that was just a coincidence though
Also take a look at voter ID regulations that the Republicans have been pushing hard for years now, which make it more difficult to vote in poorer areas which are again mostly minority populations. That's not even taking into account taking time off to actually vote, easy to do as a white collar worker, but vastly more difficult if you're juggling multiple minimum wage jobs that won't give you time off to go vote