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   mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 23:47:43 JST mekka okereke :verified:

   Quiz is over!

   The quiz question was, since the Supreme Court made it easier for the GOP to be extra racist to Black voters in swing states, the number of voters purged from voting rolls increased significantly. "How many voters were de-registered between 2014 and 2016? Was it 17K? 170K? 1.7 million or 17 million?

   https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112924592284252554

   The hint: it's more than in 2006 to 2008 but the same as 2016 to 2018. The answer is... 17 million! AKA approximately the population of the Netherlands!🤡

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 23:47:41 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     If you are white, you are 100% safe from being illegally de-registered, in the same way that a dolphin is 100% safe from ever being caught in a fishing trawler's tuna fishing net🐟🐬. In that you are not safe.🙃

     If a dolphin looks around and can see tuna? Then it is at risk of becoming "by catch" or "collateral damage."

     If you live where Black people live (AKA cities, where most of everyone lives), then you're at risk of getting caught up in this deregistration.

     So check.
     https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112924094411662837

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 23:47:42 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     The number of voters purged between 2014 and 2016, and 2016 and 2018 being about the same is important. Because this is the new "normal amount of election racism." 🤷🏿♂️

     https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/voter-purge-rates-remain-high-analysis-finds

     I say "about the same" but you already know that the number of deregistrations is moving up...

     The fact that voter purges occur disproportionately in places that Black people vote, and ramped up after laws designed to protect Black voters were intentionally weakened, is important too.

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 23:47:42 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     The next questions on the quiz would be:

     2) How many eligible voters were erroneously (illegally) de-registered in these purges, so that they couldn't vote on election day?

     3) Did they disproportionately target eligible Black voters for illegal de-registering?

     4) Was the number of Black voters illegally de-registered between 2014 and 2016 larger than Trump's margin of victory?

     5) Did Black voters ask for help with this in those 2 years prior to Trump winning the election?

     But why bother? 🤷🏿♂️

     Thomas 🔭🕹️, Paul Cantrell and GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     Bodhipaksa (bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 09:31:51 JST Bodhipaksa

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     • Brian Grinter

     @bgrinter @mekkaokereke

     GOP state governments will send out postcards (targeted to Black/Democratic areas) and if you don't reply to the postcard they remove you from the voting register.

     If you miss voting in a couple of elections they'll take you off the register.

     Have you heard of placebo votes? They'll let you vote and then just not count it.

     https://hartmannreport.com/p/democracy-undone-the-texas-placebo-f52

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     Brian Grinter (bgrinter@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 09:31:52 JST Brian Grinter

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     @mekkaokereke everything about your election system is bat shit crazy I’m afraid

     The idea a party can de-register someone is bonkers. Every time I tell people here about it they say isn’t that illegal?

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.