“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."

  • Drusas
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    11 day ago

    Again, it’s okay to be wrong. It was two years ago that I needed to go vote in person, in Seattle.

    • @mrcleanup
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      11 day ago

      Oh that makes sense, they do have a separate process there to handle all the people that are convinced that there’s an in person process, but it’s still just a mail in ballot and a county drop box, they just don’t have time to try and convince you that you aren’t special.

      • @jordanlundM
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        114 hours ago

        Both Oregon and Washington allow for in person voting, you just do it at the elections precinct.

      • Drusas
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        115 hours ago

        You are so clueless but strongly opinionated.

        Whatever. Believe what you believe.

        • @mrcleanup
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          111 hours ago

          One of us is an elections official in Washington, it isn’t you. King county is having a special election right now, if you are in a participating district, ask them what the difference is between the “in person” ballot and the mail in when you go in. It’s the same ballot.