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Understanding the Barriers to Voting
Mounting Obstacles Leaving Voters Out
“If voting didn’t matter much, foreign governments wouldn’t try to influence it. And if voting didn’t matter much, we wouldn’t see efforts in America to make it harder for certain people to vote. Your vote does matter.”
~ Kim Wehle, What You Need to Know About Voting — and Why
The United States has a long history of voter suppression and several states have renewed attempts to suppress the vote in the wake of the 2020 election. Many of these laws are increasing barriers and erecting new barriers to voting. Although many of these governors and election officials are pretending this is merely a way to make elections safer, there is no evidence that this is the case or that we have a problem to begin with.
Some seem to think people voting against them is somehow illegitimate or nefarious, rather than admitting people just don’t want them in office. Those supporters of the last president only seem to take issue with states where he lost and haven’t challenged anything in the states he won. Even in the states where they challenged the presidential election results, they are fine with the congressional elections, even though the votes were cast on the exact same ballots.
