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Voter suppression in the United States consists of various legal and illegal efforts to prevent eligible citizens from exercising their right to vote. Such voter suppression efforts vary by state, local government, precinct, and election. Voter suppression has historically been used for racial, economic, gender, age and disability discrimination.
In October 2024, investigative journalist Greg Palast published to YouTube a documentary, Vigilantes Inc., detailing voter suppression by "vigilante" challenges by self-appointed vote-fraud hunters, not government officials, who are targeting people to challenge and block the counting of their ballots. [182]
On a special episode (first released on August 14, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: In response to former President Donald Trump’s lies about a stolen election in 2020, many state legislatures ...
In North Carolina, for example, a voter ID law approved by voters in 2018 was challenged in court within 15 minutes of being enacted. The state supreme court eventually struck down the law, ruling ...
Across the country, sundry new laws (or soon-to-be laws like Indiana House Bill 1264) threaten to make voting more difficult. Indiana, though, has had strict voter identification laws since 2005.
Ohio law provides a process to remove an inactive voter from its list of registered voters. After a two-year break from certain voting activities specified by Ohio law (i.e., filing a change of address, filing a registration to vote, casting an absentee ballot, casting a provisional ballot, or voting on election day), the State sends these inactive voters a confirmation notice via mail.
Ohio now has the strictest voter ID law in the U.S., preventing thousands from voting. Other states with new ID laws include Florida and Georgia. ... July 30, 2024 at 7:54 AM.
Critics have suggested its true purpose is voter suppression. The commission was led by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a staunch advocate of strict voter ID laws and a proponent of the Crosscheck system. Crosscheck is a national database, which is designed to check for voters who are registered in more than one state by comparing names ...