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Voter Registration Is Inherently Racist
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Voter Registration Is Inherently Racist

And several other reasons that the midterm elections are testing how far some states can go in disenfranchising certain voters. What if we had an election and everyone came? That’s not a hypothetical question, because we’re right now in the middle of the midterm election season where one of the two political parties is trying to make sure fewer people are going to vote. Midterms are said to be a referendum on the incumbent president, but probably nothing is more at stake than elections for state legislatures. Whoever controls the state houses in 2018 will be in charge of redistricting after the 2020 Census—and that happens before the 2020 presidential election, when President Trump actually will be on the ballot. The fact that, according to Cook Political Report, as of Oct. 12, 32...