So You Say You Support BLM

Black Lives Matter is a popular cause, but support for BLM means little if support for suppressing Black votes continues unexamined. Specifically, these practices, which are very popular with Republicans these days: 

• Limiting who counts as a person for census purposes; 
• Gerrymandering targeting “African Americans with almost surgical precision“; 
• Photo/voter ID laws; 
• Restrictions on acceptable IDs; 
• Onerous document requirements for voter registration; 
• Street address requirements for registering in communities lacking street addresses; 
• Limiting days/times/locations for voter registration services; 
• Restrictions on ex-felon registration; 
• Restrictions on voter registration drives; 
• Violating the “Motor Voter” law by state DMVs; 
• Restrictions on early voting times; 
• Siting early voting locations remote to minority neighborhoods; 
• Restrictions on absentee voting; 
• Restrictions on absentee ballot drop boxes; 
• Voter roll purges; 
• Limiting voting machines in minority precincts; 
• Voter intimidation tactics at the polls; 
• “Disenfranchisement by typo“; 
• Decades-long effort to undermine confidence in the election process itself.