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Voter suppression acts as a means of denying those policies reality, and it is baked into the DNA of America.

It has been perfected in recent years in the last two decades in a way that lets us forget that it's real because it has so many pieces, and that's the architecture.

Voter suppression isn't simply saying you can't vote. Voter suppression is both a physical

activity, but it's also a psychic effect. Telling people their votes won't count, telling people

that the system is rigged has the act of actually stopping people from trying to use it.

The way that people are experiencing suppression right now is in things like Texas limiting drop boxes in really densely populated

places where mostly black and brown communities live.

It's the long lines outside of polling places that can become dispiriting or for folks who've got

a lot of family and work obligations, low income folks, folks of color, and others that can

be dissuading from voting.

These efforts to make voting more difficult, it was almost a direct response, a backlash

to the election of our nation's first African-American

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