“If the purges [of potential voters], challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldn’t matter. It’s anything but random. For example, an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected. Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast.”

"[…] Democracy can win* despite the 2.3% suppression headwind.

And that’s our job as Americans: to end the purges, the vigilante challenges, the ballot rejections and the attitude that this is all somehow OK."

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    We all know. Nothing was or will be done. Now they can rig it from the inside. Was a fun run!

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      Democrats had the opportunity to fix this when they were in office. They chose to protect the filibuster instead.

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        Did they or did Manchin and Sinema, who go figure are no longer Democrats, stop them?