Carol Anderson: "How Republicans turned voter suppression into a high art"
Carol Anderson has been interviewed for this feature at Vox:
❝ Q: Black voter turnout fell by 7 percent in the 2016 presidential election. How do you account for that decline?
Carol Anderson: I attribute it to the fact that this was the first presidential election in 50 years without the protections of the Voting Rights Act. We saw in a number of states — including Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Kansas, Florida, and others — that Republican state legislatures implemented voter suppression laws that very deliberately targeted minority groups, especially black voters. And it’s pretty clear that those suppression efforts were successful … [Vox.com]
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