Conservatives in Indiana are stealthily suppressing Democrat/Minority voters

The Indiana chapter of the NAACP is suing state election officials to block a new law that would shutter hundreds of polling locations in a county with a large number of African American and Hispanic voters. The lawsuit, filed in federal court Wednesday, alleges that the law specifically targets a particular region of the state with a large minority, poor, and elderly population, impeding the ability of those voters to cast a ballot.

The law was signed by Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb in May, as Indiana was already increasing voting opportunities in whiter Republican strongholds while decreasing them in areas with more minority and Democratic voters. An investigation by the Indianapolis Star found that since 2008, when Barack Obama won the state, Republican officials have driven up turnout significantly in conservative, suburban areas by increasing the number of early voting locations. At the same time, they have driven down turnout in Democratic, urban areas by cutting the number of early polling stations. In May, the NAACP, its Indiana chapter, and Common Cause Indiana, a progressive watchdog group, filed a lawsuit over the disparity in early voting locations.

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Zalatix said:

Indiana Is Making It Harder for Minorities to Vote, Lawsuit Alleges – Mother Jones

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JasperL said:

Good "Christian" Paul Weyrich told us all we need to know about how the GOP looks at voting years ago.



Everything the party does with regard to voting these days, nationwide, is an attempt to drive down the voting population. This is the actual "voter fraud" going on, by guys in suits, not poor people who have no power casting ineligible votes.

Thankfully I left the GOP years ago. If not, I'd have to over this bull****. No way to cast a vote for the GOP with a clean conscience when they're doing this to win elections.

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Puigb said:

The fact that the GOP has to do this to win elections speaks volumes to how awful their "message" is. Then again, what message does the GOP (led by Donald Trump) even have these days?

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