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More Perfect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

No matter what your political view or ideology \u2013 every American should believe in the right to vote.  It\u2019s fundamental to the nature of our country. The citizens of the United States select their leaders by majority agreement.  It\u2019s the American Way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a part of the United States becoming a \u201cMore Perfect Union\u201d we have included more and more citizens in the voting process.  That\u2019s been a major narrative in our nation\u2019s story:  the fight for the right to vote.  I outlined that struggle recently in an earlier essay, The Arc of the Vote<\/a>.  <\/em>Any political movement that establishes itself as anti-voting is swimming against the current of American history.  And sadly, that is the story of the modern Republican Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REDMAP<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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As with many things in the GOP, it didn\u2019t start with Donald Trump.  It actually begins in 2010 with the REDMAP project.  As a political party, the Republicans made a national strategy out of drawing district lines to gain the maximum power.  The idea wasn\u2019t new. The term for it, Gerrymander, came from the actions of the Governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, in 1810. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the REDMAP project took re-districting to an extreme, using modern technology and voting patterns to divide states in favor of Republicans by the city block.  An outgrowth of the project was to \u201cpile\u201d Democrats into a few districts where they would have an overwhelming majority. Other districts would slice Democratic communities into multiple districts so that their vote was diluted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ultimate results of successful \u201cREMAPPING\u201d was districts so partisan, that voters of the minority party were in fact, disenfranchised.  Their vote simply didn\u2019t matter, and the elections became about which candidate in the Republican Party could be more partisan.  Districts like Ohio\u2019s Fourth, represented by Republican Jim Jordan, snaked across the state.  Its boundaries extend from the Dayton suburbs to the Columbus suburbs, the Toledo suburbs, the Mansfield suburbs to the Cleveland suburbs.  It carefully avoids urban areas, making it the tenth most Republican District in the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VOTER ID<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The second part of the plan was to suppress Democratic voters, and therefore, suppress minority voters.  They did this by creating whole new barriers to being able to vote.  For centuries voting was a two-step process:  registration, and casting the ballot.  Registration required a proof of citizenship (birth certificate) and used a signature to identify the voter.  Voting was a process of matching the signatures, a quick and easy check, to cast the ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Jim Crow South, Black Americans were harassed at both steps in the process.  To register they had to prove that their \u201cgrandfather\u201d was eligible to vote,. That was something that the former slaves could not do.  Once that was stricken, they were required to pass \u201cliteracy tests\u201d, or accurately guess the number of jellybeans in a jar.  And when those \u201ctricks\u201d failed to stop registration, then intimidation in the form of the Ku Klux Klan kept them from voting at the polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But modern voter suppression is more sophisticated.  Instead of creating barriers at registration, the Republican Party determined to make the actual act of voting more difficult.  Instead of matching signatures, they required state identification cards to be allowed to gain a ballot.  For most suburban white voters, a State ID was commonplace, a Driver\u2019s License. But for minority and urban voters that \u201cthird step\u201d in the process is more onerous.  In essence, a \u201cpoll tax\u201d was added, a fee for the right to vote: the cost of a State ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fake News<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Before they could add in the VOTER ID requirements, the Republican Party had to generate a reason.  So they created an ongoing drumbeat of stories about voter fraud at the polls, even though the actual number of cases of fraudulent voting in the United States was miniscule.  By convincing voters that there was fraud at the polls, then VOTER ID laws could be justified.  So the Republican Party created a problem, and then they mandated a solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this occurred in spite of the Republicans Party\u2019s own studies which called for them to expand their membership.  The 2013 \u201cautopsy<\/a>\u201d of the losing 2012 Romney Presidential bid carefully outlined the steps that the \u201cParty of Lincoln\u201d could take to gain Black and Latino voters.  In over one hundred pages, it called for Party diversification. It depended on the strength of Republican ideas to draw voters to their cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the \u201cautopsy\u201d was ignored.  The Party turned away from diversification both spiritually and literally. They fired Michael Steele, the first Black Chairman, and turned to Wisconsin’s Reince Preibus.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The third \u201cleg\u201d of the Republican voter suppression campaign was in purging the voting rolls.  While the typical \u201csuburban Republican\u201d voted in every election, many Democrats voted only in the Presidential years.  If they missed one, then it would be eight years between votes.  So Republican Secretaries of State pushed through laws to purge the voting lists of those who failed to vote in six years.  It was simple statistics.  They would remove a lot more Democrats then Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REDMAPPING, VOTER ID, and LIST PURGING aren\u2019t just strategies:  they are now our history.  The America we live in today is shaped by the results of these suppression techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consolidation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And now we are confronted with the final, more blatant, fourth leg of the campaign. The President making it harder for Americans to cast a ballot.  Even before the COVID pandemic, boards of elections were reducing the number of polling places in urban areas.  In locations where folks are less likely to have private transportation, polling places have been consolidated to make them farther away.   While the NBA\u2019s offer to use their Coliseums as \u201cmass\u201d polling places is helpful, it also requires folks to travel farther from their own homes to vote.  What seems like a great idea to suburban voters used to getting in their cars and going, is just another barrier to urban voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the 1950\u2019s era of Norman Rockwell paintings, folks in small towns walked to their local school and voted together.  It is classic Americana, citizens deciding their government.   It is the way Americans voted for the history of our nation.  But the line of voters Rockwell painted was of all white people.  Now that more American\u2019s of all races have the right to vote, that method isn\u2019t \u201cgood enough\u201d.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last, Best Chance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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REMAP, VOTER ID, LIST PURGING, POLL CLOSINGS:  all of this isn\u2019t coincidental.  As discovered in the notes of Thomas Hofeller<\/a>, mastermind of the REDMAPPING strategy, it was done specifically to disenfranchise minority voters.  And now, in the midst of the pandemic, Donald Trump is placing the final obstruction to voting.  In a crisis when the MOST at risk from COVID are elderly minority voters, the President\u2019s appointee has undercut the Postal Service.  At a time when commonsense would dictate voting by mail, the government is taking affirmative steps to make that more difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of this is by accident.  The Republican Party turned it\u2019s back on diversification after 2013, now they have little left but to try to restrict the vote to their own supporters.  So what can Democrats do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vote:  Democrats must overcome every obstacle and vote.  Democrats must check their registration to make sure they aren’t purged.  They must vote early by mail if that\u2019s what\u2019s required.  Or they must risk infection and possible death (really) to line up and vote in person on Election Day.  There can be no stopping, no hesitation, no questioning of purpose.  If we don\u2019t, Republicans will be rewarded with four more years in office. Who knows what barriers may be in place by 2024.  This is our best chance to follow the American Way, fulfill the American Dream, and move the arc of history towards justice.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More Perfect No matter what your political view or ideology \u2013 every American should believe in the right to vote.  It\u2019s fundamental to the nature of our country. The citizens of the United States select their leaders by majority agreement.  It\u2019s the American Way. As a part of the United States becoming a \u201cMore Perfect Union\u201d we … Continue reading “Suppression”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nSuppression : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Republican Party is engaging in a campaign of voter suppression. 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