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@TehBamski@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months ago

Been thinking this for over a decade

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Been thinking this for over a decade

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@TehBamski@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months ago
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    and it only takes five minutes.

    Not here it doesn’t. There are constant intentional efforts to shut down polling locations in communities with a disproportionate amount of minorities. The intent is to force minority voters to travel further to get to a polling place (which may not be an option due to our joke of a public transit network), and to force them to wait in line for hours at a time to vote.

    https://www.npr.org/2020/10/17/924527679/why-do-nonwhite-georgia-voters-have-to-wait-in-line-for-hours-too-few-polling-pl

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/04/upshot/voting-wait-times.html

    In some jurisdictions, they’ve gone so far with their voter suppression tactics that they make it a punishable offense to provide food and water for those waiting in the hours long lines to vote.

    https://www.americanbar.org/groups/senior_lawyers/resources/experience/2024-january-february/is-line-warming-legal/

    And that’s all before accounting for the fact that many people need to have two jobs to be stable, which makes it hard to get to the polls even if the lines are short.

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/8-7-million-americans-now-193011733.html

    The U.S. election system is a joke, and a sham democracy.

    • @BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world
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      The U.S. election system is a joke, and a sham democracy.

      FTFY

      • @Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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        That’s fair

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