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The Latest Voter Purges Might be an Ominous Sign of What’s to Come.
Republicans are beginning to panic, and what’s happening in Wisconsin and Georgia should come as no surprise.
Over the course of recent decades here in the United States, there’s no question that voter suppression has been a commonly used tactic among our conservator legislators. Perhaps the most disturbing and consequential example happened in 2000, when vote counters in the state of Florida were intimidated by lobbyists posing as protestors in to ceasing the counting of the ballots.
As we all know the conservative leanings Supreme Court then stopped the counting all together and declared George Bush the President. In doing so, the court effectively throwing out thousands of votes and handing the election to the Republicans. When media organizations later finished counting the ballots, it turned out that in fact Al Gore had won the state of Florida, thus winning not just the popular vote but the electoral college as well.
It goes without saying that in that instance of voter suppression in particular, the entire world felt the consequences of American voter suppression.
One of the favorite tactics of voter suppression among not only Republicans but more corporate friendly democrats…
