Prometheus 6

I hate it when people point out old problems as new. But I'm getting used to it. Many of our societal conversations have been frozen in time since at least the 1970s. I didn't think this was one of them, but apparently I was wrong.

The CBS article also refers to "troubling new insight" as if no one has ever brought this up before. Admittedly, I paid no attention to this before 2000, but at that point the cases were so obvious and well documented... and at the national level, back-burnered soon after Gore conceded. And resurrected in every election cycle since? Only to recede again because after all, it must be your own fault for being an ex-con in the first place, or for having the same name as anyone else in the "justice system."

Check the archives of the majors such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, and you'll realize that voter roll purges have been documented as an issue at least back to the '80s.

I know there are eligible people, more specifically eligible Black people, who just won't vote in a US election, in a fit of Marxian pique. (Groucho, that is... they won't join a club that would have them as a member.) But they are missing the point when so many others are purged or turned away, with no consequences to the purgers.

One would think Republicans fighting so hard to take away their vote would be evidence of its value, but that's just the way I think.