“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."

  • Queen HawlSera
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    2710 days ago

    This is why Kamala accepting the outcome “No matter what”, to prove she’s better than Trump…

    Was the dumbest thing she could have done because it was just playing into the GOP’s hand.

    The Republican game is “You go high, we go low, because low gets us elected and furthers our agenda.”

    • @JcbAzPx
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      510 days ago

      I thought their game was “Low, no matter what.”

      • Flying Squid
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        010 days ago

        I think the game is “there’s always more barrel to scrape.”

    • @Letsdothis
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      No one actually ever considered kamala might win. As soon as Biden dropped out, anyone that actually knew something knew Democrats had thrown in the towel.

      • @Nalivai
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        410 days ago

        That’s absolutely not true. They had the best campaign since Obama and they did amazing job in that 3 weeks or so, and contrasting disaster of a shitshow that Trump put on made it even clearer.
        In the end Americans turned out to be way worse people than predicted, but that was absolutely not obvious.

        • @Letsdothis
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          Remember when I said “anyone that knew something.”

          Sorry you didn’t fall in that group

      • Victor
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        410 days ago

        Guess I don’t know shit then