Is voter suppression a big issue in US politics?

A record mid term turnout still had less than 50% voting and this is scarily low in a democracy. I've read about all sorts of logistical problems: hour long lines and machines but I working etc. Also, it is harder to register to vote than in other countries, with struct ID laws and life bans for ex felons. Gerrymandered Congress districts and two Senators for every state regardless of population seem ridiculous to me.

How can such an inbalanced and weird system decide so much?

Is this by accident or design?

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bijouxbroussard · F Best Comment

It [b]is[/b], and it’s been escalating, which is why the GOP had to repeal parts of the Voters’ Rights Act that protected voters from disenfranchisement.
Ironically, the excuse used was that it was no longer needed because there were no longer instances of voter suppression from the states that had been the biggest offenders historically. What [b]wasn’t[/b] addressed was that there were no [b]successful[/b] attempts—but attempts were still being made, all the way up to Obama’s second term.

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@bijouxbroussard How could a former Comfederate state be permitted to run their own election!

bijouxbroussard · F

@SW-User They have not completely changed how they feel about black voters.