Author
Center for American Progress (CAP)
Release Date
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
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MNI Media features the new Center for American Progress CAP Action Fund issue brief profiling three of 2018's most notorious voter suppressors.
The piece takes a look at three elected officials (Outgoing Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Outgoing FL Governor Rick Scott and former GA Secretary of State Brian Kemp) who used their offices to suppress the votes in races where they were also candidates.
The brief starts by saying: "Voter suppression has a long and storied history in the United States. It has become a shameful tradition that persists every election year and comes in many forms—such as strict, discriminatory voter identification requirements; mass voter purges; poll closures in racially diverse neighborhoods; and reduced voting hours, including the elimination of Sunday early voting."
Read more and the full brief by clicking here.
The piece takes a look at three elected officials (Outgoing Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Outgoing FL Governor Rick Scott and former GA Secretary of State Brian Kemp) who used their offices to suppress the votes in races where they were also candidates.
The brief starts by saying: "Voter suppression has a long and storied history in the United States. It has become a shameful tradition that persists every election year and comes in many forms—such as strict, discriminatory voter identification requirements; mass voter purges; poll closures in racially diverse neighborhoods; and reduced voting hours, including the elimination of Sunday early voting."
Read more and the full brief by clicking here.
