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Racial Turnout Gap Has Widened With a Weakened Voting Rights Act, Study Finds

www.nytimes.com Racial Turnout Gap Has Widened With a Weakened Voting Rights Act, Study Finds

The Black share of the electorate had been on the rise for decades, but in some counties, a Supreme Court decision in 2013 changed that, according to a new analysis.

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aka "it worked". conservatives successfully fucked over black people, again
Just as the Founding Fathers intended.
- Mind you, we amended the constitution to fix that issue
  
  You mean the 13th? Nah, that still allows for punitive slavery, which is the norm to this day.
Could have passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, but as with all things, Democrats considered the filibuster more important.
- More exactly, a tiny number of Democrats regarded it as more important, and without them, the rest didn't have the ability to pass anything
  
  More exactly, a tiny number of Democrats regarded it as more important
  
  There's always just enough.
Which is exactly what the Republicans wanted.

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