Louisville Courier-Journal: Mitch McConnell, let's end efforts to suppress the vote of black and poor people
League of Women Voters of Kentucky
Today citizens are demanding an end to systemic oppression of blacks by the justice system. That call must be extended to include bringing an end to voter suppression.
In recent years 25 states have enacted voter restrictions in the name of preventing voter fraud. They include requiring photo IDs, limiting voter registration drives, illegal purging of voter records, limits on early voting, restrictive absentee voting regulations, reduced polling locations in poor/minority neighborhoods, strict residential address requirements and “exact match” provisions.
These restrictions have been a solution in search of a problem that doesn’t exist in any measurable way. What they have done, intentionally or not, is suppress voting by black and poor people by putting unnecessary burdens on them to register and vote.