Prometheus 6 has an NAACP report about voter suppression. It falls much in line with my own comments.
But questions arise. At what point is voter suppression and intimidation important. If 7 voters out of every 100 are faced with intimidation tactics (which does not measure how many are actually turned back) what are we to make of that? To be sure from what I know about Florida, that's an easy one. As far as I'm concerned it is enough to call in international forces. And anytime you've got an entire campus told not to vote, there is a problem.
But I wonder how big a problem it'd be if similar attempts were conducted to suppress their vote? What would such attempts even look like anyway?
Among industrial democracies the United States is at the bottom of the rung as far as voter turnout I think.
Posted by: Lester Spence at August 3, 2004 07:13 AMGoggle Gropups might be usefull for it.
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Chadwick Hinkle
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The paradox for me here is that, in the 50's and 60's especially, black people refused to be intimidated. They called out the racists and said "You're gonna have to sick the dogs on us to stop us."
Today, all it takes is a couple press releases for people to say "Oh well, it's too much trouble to vote and besides, who cares." I am always struck by Zimbabwe -- those people KNEW Mugabe would steal the election no matter what and still walked 20 miles to stand in line 12 hours to vote. *SIGH* If only...
Posted by: Golasso at August 2, 2004 09:48 AM