Democratic secretaries of state launch ad campaign linking voting restrictions to 'white supremacy' [View all]
As President Trump continues to rail about a “rigged 2020 election” on Twitter, the group representing Democratic secretaries of state released its own social media campaign, accusing Trump and the Republican Party of engaging in voter suppression that is “rooted in white supremacy.”
The video ad by the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State connects the issue of voting rights to the current conversation about addressing systemic racism. It uses images of black protesters from the 1950s and ’60s demanding voting rights, alongside those of current protests over police violence, sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. A narrator says: “White supremacy does not endure on its own. It is propped up by suppressing black voices and votes.”
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, chairman of the group, said the ad campaign, which began Monday, is “inspired by the movement we’ve seen in the last several weeks in response to the killing of George Floyd.”
“As a nation, we’ve been reminded that we have a lot of work to do to achieve justice and equality in tackling discrimination and racism in many areas, and our election system is no exception,” he said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/22/democratic-secretaries-state-launch-ad-campaign-linking-voting-restrictions-white-supremacy/
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