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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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? 🤷🏿‍♂️

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

@mekkaokereke I'm a white male, and 100% can confirm. We actually found a subtle issue just this morning (Thanks for your reminder! It was the whole reason I checked!)

My family moved about 3 years ago. We are in SC. We moved from one end of our street to the other, have updated addresses with the DMV, have current licenses with correct addresses, etc. My wife and I both voted since moving, and SC has voter ID laws. And as a former poll worker, I am intimately familiar with how rigorous they train us to be.

My registration has the correct address, everything is fine. My wife? Her registration is showing the old address. If we would have showed up in November, we could have been very disappointed to find that she would be denied a right to vote. I'm not sure how this wasn't caught the last time, but maybe I'm just misremembering if we remedied it at the polling place.

There are local procedures that can protect us (showing current license and filling a form, voting in person at the county board of elections, etc.) but they are all hurdles and hardships that could deny many from voting.