{"id":705,"date":"2022-05-01T16:17:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T20:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/?p=705"},"modified":"2022-05-01T16:59:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T20:59:06","slug":"what-is-voter-suppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/voter-suppression-and-get-out-the-vote\/what-is-voter-suppression\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Voter Suppression?"},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.adl.org\/education\/resources\/tools-and-strategies\/what-is-voter-suppression<\/a><\/p>\n

This article explains the different ways that people’s votes have been suppressed, and gives examples of current policy to deter people from voting.\u00a0 Specifically, the article states that “These measures disproportionately impact people of color, students, the elderly, and people with disabilities.”\u00a0 According to this article, as of March 24, 2021, 47 states have collectively passed 361 bills which are discriminatory towards some group of voters.\u00a0 Below are some ways outlined in the article that voters are discouraged from placing a vote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Early voting<\/strong>: Benefits senior citizens, working people, people with disabilities and more.\u00a0 <\/span>Suppression laws make it more difficult to vote early by shortening the period of time for early voting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Absentee<\/strong> voting<\/strong>: Exists for people who can\u2019t vote in person at their polling location.\u00a0 In 2020 COVID played a big role in discouraging people from voting in person.\u00a0 <\/span>Suppression laws include restricting absentee voting options by putting limitations on who can vote by mail, making it more difficult to receive vote by mail ballots, and generally making it more difficult to vote by mail.<\/span><\/p>\n

Voter<\/strong> registration<\/strong>: Requiring proof of citizenship or other particular identification to register to vote, limiting the window to register to vote before the election, not allowing registration past a certain point, and limiting election day registration and automatic voter registration<\/span><\/p>\n

Stricter voter ID<\/strong> laws: Specific identification required on the day of voting that wasn’t previously required, requirement of a photocopy of photo ID.<\/span><\/p>\n

Voter<\/strong> purging<\/strong>: When a voter\u2019s registration is removed by officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

Disenfranchisement<\/strong>: People with felonies aren\u2019t able to vote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Precinct<\/strong> closures<\/strong>: Confusing, longer lines.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gerrymandering<\/strong>: Redrawing voting district lines in the interest of increasing votes for one party.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.adl.org\/education\/resources\/tools-and-strategies\/what-is-voter-suppression This article explains the different ways that people’s votes have been suppressed, and gives examples of current policy to deter people from voting.\u00a0 Specifically, the article states that “These measures disproportionately impact people of color, students, the elderly, and people with disabilities.”\u00a0 According to this article, as of March 24, 2021, 47 states have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voter-suppression-and-get-out-the-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}