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1. Voter suppression (Pierce College CA)

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Sun Nov 1, 2020, 03:42 AM

Nov 2020

Arielle Zolezzi

Although the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was supposed to secure every American’s right to vote, voter suppression is still as prominent today as it was in the 1940’s and 1950’s ...

Today, voter suppression isn’t as in your face, and that is what makes it so dangerous.

One way that suppression at the polls has been able to continue is moving and closing polling sites.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights reported that states across the American South have closed nearly 1,200 polling places since the Supreme Court weakened a landmark voting-discrimination law in 2013 ...

https://theroundupnews.com/2020/10/30/column-voter-suppression/

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