Here's the real reason Trump and the GOP don't want mail-in voting [View all]

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Published 2 mins ago on May 27, 2020
By Thom Hartmann- Commentary

Trump and Republicans don’t want mail-in voting this November because it blows up a couple of their most effective voter suppression schemes.

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Leading up to Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s contest with Stacey Abrams in 2018, the Atlanta Constitution-Journal documented how 8 percent of the state’s polling places had been recently closed, hitting rural black areas particularly hard. The Washington Post chronicled how broken voting machines—and the long lines they create—were largely confined to downtown Atlanta and black suburbs and rural areas.

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Another trick the GOP likes is to merge the effects of voter registration purges with “provisional” ballots. First, Republican Secretaries of State throw hundreds of thousands of people off the voter rolls, disproportionately Hispanics and African Americans, by using “merge/purge” lists of felons or voters from other states with large black populations.

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With mail-in voting, people know before they vote if they’ve been purged from the voter list, because they don’t get a ballot in the mail. Ballots are mailed out early enough that people who’ve been purged will have time to figure out there’s a problem and contact the Secretary of State’s office to get it fixed.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/heres-the-real-reason-trump-and-the-gop-dont-want-mail-in-voting/