Democrats Rhode Island racist voting law

[CivilDiscourse]

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/democrats-voting-rights-contradiction/618599/

Unlike Delaware’s restrictions, Rhode Island’s voter-ID law can’t be described as antiquated: The statute is just 10 years old and won adoption under a Democratic majority with support from powerful Black elected leaders. Voting-rights advocates trace the law’s passage to the conservative bent of the state’s Democratic Party and tension that pitted Black and white Democrats against the state’s rising Latino population. Backers of the bill included the first Black speaker of the General Assembly. They shared stories of voter fraud they had witnessed, but opponents of the law saw it as an effort to suppress Latino turnout in Providence. “It was bizarro,” said John Marion, the executive director of Common Cause Rhode Island, the state affiliate of the national government-watchdog group. “Ten years later, I still don’t know how it happened.”

Rhode Island Democrats have proposed legislation to expand voting by mail and early voting, including a repeal of the requirement that absentee ballots have two witness signatures. But they’re not likely to touch the voter-ID system. “Repealing voter ID was a nonstarter,” Steven Brown, the executive director of the ACLU of Rhode Island, told me. “So there was no point in putting it in the reform bill.” Rhode Island’s critics of the ID requirement now find themselves in the same unenviable position as their progressive allies in red states: hoping the federal government will override a restrictive law that their own leaders—in this case, fellow Democrats—refuse to change.

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[rogue06]

FWIU, some of the states with the most restrictive voting laws are up in solidly blue New England. Connecticut has some of the nation's toughest restrictions on absentee voting that are routinely called racist or disenfranchising in other parts of the country. New Hampshire is only marginally better. Further, Connecticut forbids all early voting and New Hampshire strictly limits it. Even uber-liberal Massachusetts greatly limits early and absentee voting.

But those are only considered bad if the state is blue or purple.

[CivilDiscourse]

FWIU, some of the states with the most restrictive voting laws are up in solidly blue New England. Connecticut has some of the nation's toughest restrictions on absentee voting that are routinely called racist or disenfranchising in other parts of the country. New Hampshire is only marginally better. Further, Connecticut forbids all early voting and New Hampshire strictly limits it. Even uber-liberal Massachusetts greatly limits early and absentee voting.

But those are only considered bad if the state is blue or purple.

Those New England Democrats must be fascist.

[rogue06]

Those New England Democrats must be fascist.

But for some reason the MSM is largely ignoring it. There are no calls for boycotts or pulling events (and taking them to states with laws that are similar if not even more restrictive).

[CivilDiscourse]

But for some reason the MSM is largely ignoring it. There are no calls for boycotts or pulling events (and taking them to states with laws that are similar if not even more restrictive).

They are ignored because these racist laws are already in place. They are not new racist laws.