Tuesday, May 04, 2021

What Was That About Voter Suppression? - WSJ

What Was That About Voter Suppression? - WSJ
‘We have classic voter suppression,” declared Kamala Harris last fall, and Democrats keep making the charge. 
Yet new Census voting data show these claims are as meritless as Donald Trump’s that the election was stolen.
Census figures released Thursday show that turnout in 2020 reached a near-historic high for a presidential election, with 66.8% of voting-age citizens casting ballots—0.9 percentage-points shy of the 1992 record.
  • ...Notably, GOP states with stricter voting rules didn’t experience significantly lower minority turnout. Black turnout was highest in Maryland (75.3%) followed by Mississippi (72.8%) and lowest in Massachusetts (36.4%). 
  • Liberals have lambasted Georgia for “purging” voters and restricting ballot access. But Georgia had a smaller black-white voting gap than Illinois, New Jersey, Virginia and California—all states controlled by Democrats.
  • The states with the biggest black-white voting gaps? Massachusetts, Oregon, Wisconsin, Iowa and Colorado. Three allow same-day voter registration (Wisconsin, Iowa, and Colorado), according to the National Conference of State Legislatures...Read all.

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