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SOURCE: Dissent
1/10/2021
Disenfranchisement: An American Tradition
by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
Invoking the specter of voter fraud to undermine democratic participation is a tactic as old as the United States itself.
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SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
10/21/2020
Disenfranchisement in Jails Weakens our Democracy
by Charlotte Rosen
Because the pretrial population is disproportionately non-White, this kind of “de facto disenfranchisement” constitutes an abhorrent form of racist voter suppression, despite rarely gaining the headlines and outrage that long voting lines do.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/18/2020
‘Pitchfork Ben’ and the Jim Crow South Got Away with the Disenfranchisement of Voters. Will Trump?
In order to win, Trump "must find a way to reduce the number of anti-Trump voters who can actually cast a ballot," writes columnist Colbert I. King.
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