Alarm over voter purges as 17m Americans removed from rolls in two years

[Demovictory9]

Alarm over voter purges as 17m Americans removed from rolls in two years
Areas with discriminatory history purging at higher rates
Brennan Center report finds millions ‘wrongfully purged’

US election jurisdictions with histories of egregious voter discrimination have been purging voter rolls at a rate 40% beyond the national average, according to a watchdog report released Thursday.

At least 17 million voters were purged nationwide between 2016 and 2018, according to a study by the Brennan Center for Justice. The number was basically unchanged from the previous two-year period.

While the rate of voter purges elsewhere has declined slowly, jurisdictions released from federal oversight by a watershed 2013 supreme court ruling had purge rates “significantly higher” than jurisdictions not previously subjected to oversight, the Brennan Center found in a previous report.

That trend has continued, the watchdog said, with the disproportionate purging of voters resulting in an estimated 1.1 million fewer voters between 2016 and 2018.

Voter purges accelerated in the United States with the 2013 Shelby County v Holder ruling, which released counties with histories of voter discrimination from federal oversight imposed by the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/01/voter-purges-us-elections-brennan-center-report

[debsy]

1. Are any Dems going to call for UN election monitoring?

History teaches us that the GOP have been stealing elections for many years now and they become more brazen each cycle. This is their long game now. We need to mobilize and start making these assholes in the Republican Party uncomfortable.

[kentuck]

2. Do voters know if they have been "purged"?

Can they not be re-enrolled?

That seems like something that could be done.

[uponit7771]

3. This is why we need provisional ballet auditing and polling

[TheBlackAdder]

4. Sounds like SCOTUS needs to revisit their flawed decision.