stubborn-string-bones:

ofhouseadama:

you can throw all the blame on thirty party voters, or you can also factor in that this is the first election in FIFTY YEARS without the voting rights act protections making sure people of color and other marginalized groups can get to the polls 

ok i didn’t know anything about this so

Left to their own devices by the Supreme Court, some states and counties
appear to be testing how far they can go with voter suppression. North
Carolina is a case in point. Following the court’s decision in Shelby
County, the Republican-led Legislature passed a law stuffed with voting
restrictions, including voter ID requirements and reductions in early
voting. Last summer, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit struck down
most of the law, finding that it targeted Democratic African-American
voters “with almost surgical precision.” Justifying a plan to end Sunday
voting, the state said that counties allowing it in 2014 were
“disproportionately black” and “disproportionately Democratic.” The
appeals court judges correctly called this “as close to a smoking gun
as we are likely to see in modern times.” The Republicans running the
state wanted to change a voting practice out of concern that
“African-Americans, who had overwhelmingly voted for Democrats, had too
much access to the franchise.”

and

Overall, [the Supreme Court] decision [gutting
the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder] means more than 860 fewer polling stations in places with a history of disenfranchisement. State governments in Wisconsin, Texas, Ohio, and North Carolina are ignoring federal court orders to provide proper voting facilities.