"What we are witnessing in real time across the country is a widening divide," the Voting Rights Lab said, "whereby some states are working to strengthen and expand participation in our democracy just as a significant number of states work to curtail it." https://t.co/OdkwIwYrFC
— NPR (@NPR) August 13, 2021
Some Very Smart People have argued that voter suppression can rile up voters so much that they turn out at higher rates than before—the so-called “backlash effect”—so it’s really not a big deal.
— Charlotte Hill (@hill_charlotte) July 29, 2021
But my new research shows this isn’t always the case. https://t.co/2BnIl9M2Jd
"Not all bad laws come in big packages labeled voter suppression. Not all disenfranchisement tactics make the nightly news…Yet, regardless of the size of the law, the tragic result for citizens and democracy is the same." https://t.co/54sQofJO3I
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) August 12, 2021
Sad! 