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.

2/N

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 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?

@bgrinter
@mekkaokereke

The entire idea of voter registration is foreign to me. Here all citizens are eligible to vote in national elections; for local elections you can vote if you've lived here for three years, less for people from neighbouring countries. Nobody registers to vote, instead the government sends people "here's your closest voting station" info.

Tons of early voting also means no queues. The scenes from the US just look incompetent if you don't know about the malice.

@tmstreet @syklemil @mekkaokereke Australia has postal voting, but polling places are usually in schools, the P&C committee usually is running a BBQ to raise money and you can support them and get a tasty sausage sandwich at the same time. There’s even a website to find the nearest polling station with the best food for sale

Don’t think I’ve ever waited longer than 15min to vote

https://democracysausage.org/