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Before this piece because in texas that voter suppression effort that we re seeing all over the country has been enabled by ed bloom s sponsorship of the shelby county holder case in 2013 which effectively eviscerated the voting rights act of 1965 and opened up the door of the voter suppression laws at this level and the students for fair admissions versus harvard university. it s very important to see there s been a long-standing effort by bloom and his associates to move us back to the period before the civil rights movement and the fact that asian-americans are now coming in with the sponsor of this case and fighting against affirmative action on other fronts dovetails with that larger effort. asian americans comprised of 26% of the incoming class which ....
Found their names stripped from the roles by the secretary of state. tens of thousands hung in limbo, rejected due to human error and a system of suppression that had already proven its bias. laura: that sounded really ominous, like there was an effort to willy-nilly just take people off the voter rolls, to deny them their sacred right to vote. yeah, this has become a democratic talking points at regular voter list maintenance in state is somehow part of some voter suppression effort. the reality is, her opponent, brian kemp, secretary of state at the time, pulled 1.4 million people off of the voter rolls in georgia. he did tell mike to this over eight years, registrations increased in the state, and fure know that about 17 17 countiest according to the latest stats in georgia have more registrations than voters. if anything, it appears that brian kemp didn t pull enough people off of it. laura: he wasn t aggressive enough in cleaning up the roles. 11% of americans move every ....
Effort to target african americans specifically. they deployed memes like this, post to a page called black matters in an effort to suppress african-american support for hillary clinton. part of the reason that tactic jumped out at me, it is a very strange tactic. it is not normally part of the campaign tool kit to take some demographic group and try to suppress them in your messaging. and it also happens to be the same tactic used by none other than the trump campaign. shortly before the election, a senior official told bloomberg, quote, we have three major voter suppression operations underway targeting idealistic white liberals, young women and african americans. after he won the presidency, trump took a victory lap where he celebrated the suppression of black votes. we did great with the african-american community. they didn t come out to vote for hillary. they didn t come out. and that was the big so, thank you to the african-american community. joining me now to discuss the ....
And that was the big so, thank you to the african-american community. joining me now to discuss the voter suppression effort, chair and counsel of the naacp education fund. it is a time honored tool going back to the reconstruction era, but the tactic of selecting groups with a message to tell them not to turnout struck me as weird when the trump campaign copped to it. it s weird to show up in the russian report. what do you think of it? well, last week, chris, we filed a complaint in federal district court in alabama challenging the way members of the city council are elected in pleasant grove, alabama, where the black population is 46%, but no african-american has ever been elected to serve on the city council. that s the kind of voting scheme that we are familiar with, that is designed to keep african americans from being able to elect representatives of their ....
Into 2017 and even up until today. we saw a little of this activity around the midterms. russian trolls are almost dormant, waiting for whatever next campaign or election that comes along. one report. by oxford. by oxford. new york times just scooped the other report that comes from an outfit called new knowledge. where it differs a little bit focuses on voter suppression. a lot of the efforts were designed to keep democratic based type voters at home. the voter suppression effort was focused particularly on bernie sanders supporters and african-americans, urging them to shun mrs. clinton in the general election and either vote miss stein, the green party candidate, or stay home. you thiching about pushing different buttons in different ways, one way to support president trump is by encouraging his voters. ....