Georgia voter suppression history. Americas shameful history of voter suppression a man at the selma to montgomery marches held in support of voter rights alabama late march 1965. Georgia has earned itself a reputation as the epicenter of voting nightmares especially for voters of color. They also now have a playbook to disrupt the 2020 election and scream voter suppression.
This is a voter suppression issue. Voter suppression takes many forms. Constitution does not explicitly include a right to vote source.
Georgias recent history with voter disenfranchisement has been a messy one. Notorious as one of the first states to require photo voter id it continues to make news with its voter purges polling location closures and numerous other affronts. To begin its important and surprising to note that the us.
Voter suppression in the united states concerns allegations about various efforts legal and illegal used to prevent eligible voters from exercising their right to vote. Georgia is now ground zero for voter suppression. Too well documented history of managing elections in ways that benefit their candidacies while diminishing opportunities for african american.
Right here in this great state of georgia it was the voter suppression particularly of african american communities that prevented us from having a gov. Is really the history of voting rights in the us. In georgia in 2018 among the 53000 voters in the pending voter file was the daughter of the.
Deadlines for people to register to vote have long been an accepted part of american elections and arent typically mentioned alongside voter id laws and purges which democrats contend are voter suppression tacticsbut an apm reports investigation has found that 87000 georgians were barred from voting in 2018 because theyd registered after the deadline. Robert abbott sengstackegetty images. The history of voter suppression in the us.