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	'''Voter suppression''' in the 21st century occurs mainly through defective voting machines, polling stations running out of paper, and other means of turning registered voters away from polling stations without voting.		'''Voter suppression''' in the 21st century occurs mainly through defective voting machines, polling stations running out of paper, and other means of turning registered voters away from polling stations without voting.

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 ===2008 Presidential election===
-When [[ACORN]] was questioned regarding their tactics, they replied with a classic [[Alinsky]] attack of their own, flipping the narrative. Teresa James, an attorney for ACORN affiliate Project Vote says, "they don't have the resources," to catch all fraud. However, ACORN has the money to air commercials nationwide. In it, blaming racism and voter suppression, not ACORN.<ref>[http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/122345478771640.xml&coll=2 Voter-registration can't be totally fraud-free, group says], [[The Plain Dealer]], October 08, 2008</ref>
+When [[ACORN]] was questioned regarding their tactics, they replied with a classic [[Alinsky]] attack of their own, flipping the [[narrative]]. Teresa James, an attorney for ACORN affiliate Project Vote says, "they don't have the resources," to catch all fraud. However, ACORN has the money to air commercials nationwide. In it, blaming racism and voter suppression, not ACORN.<ref>[http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/122345478771640.xml&coll=2 Voter-registration can't be totally fraud-free, group says], [[The Plain Dealer]], October 08, 2008</ref>
 ====Obamagate====

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 ==References==
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 [[Category:United States History]]
 [[Category:United States Election Law]]
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 ====Obamagate====
 [[File:Obama-brennan-white-house-540.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Obama meeting with [[John Brennan]] in the early days of the [[Obamagate timeline|Obamagate scandal]] to spy on, harass, and suppress the opposition.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120925054433/http://wikileaks.org:80/gifiles/docs/1210665_obama-leak-investigations-internal-use-only-pls-do-not.html</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2013/05/22/wikileaks-stratfor-e-mail-brennan-behind-witch-hunt-of-journalists-reporting-leaks/</ref>]]
 During [[President Obama]]'s [[IRS scandal]], Rep. [[Elijah Cummings]] attacked the [[Texas]] [[True the Vote]] organization in a letter. He wrote that "some have suggested that your true goal is not voter integrity, but voter suppression against thousands of legitimate voters who traditionally vote for Democratic candidates." He added that: "If these efforts are intentional, politically motivated, and widespread across multiple states, they could amount to a criminal conspiracy to deny legitimate voters their constitutional rights." He also decried True the Vote on [[MSNBC]] and [[CNN]].

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 In 1988 the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] ruled Clinton wrongfully tried to overturn the election of a black state representative, Mr. Ben McGee, and replace him with a white Democrat Clinton handpicked. The case grew out of the suit against Clinton to win voting rights for the people of Crittenden County.
 [[File:Clinton Gore.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Clinton/Gore 1992 convention button.]]
 According to Wikipedia, Bill Clinton engaged in voter suppression by appearing at several Massachusetts polling locations, which caused voters hours of delay and inhibited traffic.<ref>http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2016/03/01/did-bill-clinton-violate-election-rules-venturing-into-polling-location/PH4FIH9jCKYKf6Fzyvfz2N/story.html</ref> Clinton was allegedly electioneering within 150 feet of the polling locations, which is also illegal according to Massachusetts state law.<ref>http://www.medfordma.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ELECTIONSummary.pdf</ref>
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 Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting says of the ambush and firestorm that surrounded Guinier's nomination:
-{{Quotebox|there was also an ideological agenda at work: promoting Clinton’s media-celebrated shift “back to the center.” ... To make her a proper sacrificial offering, however, the establishment media had to reinvent Guinier — transforming a sophisticated advocate of racial reconciliation and participatory democracy into a sinister, [[race baiting|race-baiting]] enemy of the American Way.<ref>http://fair.org/extra/lani-guinier/</ref>}}
+{{Quotebox-float|"there was also an ideological agenda at work: promoting Clinton’s media-celebrated shift “back to the center.” ... To make her a proper sacrificial offering, however, the establishment media had to reinvent Guinier — transforming a sophisticated advocate of racial reconciliation and participatory democracy into a sinister, [[race baiting|race-baiting]] enemy of the American Way."<ref>http://fair.org/extra/lani-guinier/</ref>}}
 The Democrats held both Houses of Congress and the presidency. Guinier's nomination, if the Clintons were serious about it should have been easy. She had been Hillary and Bill's classmate at Yale. It was classic ''Clintonism'': destroying the life of a friend who was an advocate of racial reconciliation, painting the American people as racist, and promoting themselves. [[George Will]], it has been said, was too stupid and too lazy to actually read her writings. As [[Mike Klonsky]] noted, when the liberal lions of the Democratically controlled Senate, such as [[Ted Kennedy]] and even [[Carole Moseley Braun]] stepped away, now the Clintons could turn a message of reconciliation into repudiation in front of the whole nation.

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 The 1957 Civil Rights Act was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875. Johnson told Sen. [[Richard Russell]],
 [[File:John Kennedy texas.png|left|300px|thumb|John Kennedy as Senator voted against the Civil Rights Act.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/23535517?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents John F. Kennedy's Southern Strategy, 1956-1960], Guy Paul Land, ''The North Carolina Historical Review'', Vol. 56, No. 1 (January, 1979), pp. 41-63.</ref>]]
-{{quotebox|"These Negroes, they're getting pretty [[uppity]] these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."<ref>Said to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=HS9aAAAAYAAJ ''Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream''] (1977), by Doris Kearns Goodwin, New York: New American Library, p. 155.</ref>}}
+{{quotebox-float|"These Negroes, they're getting pretty [[uppity]] these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."<ref>Said to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=HS9aAAAAYAAJ ''Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream''] (1977), by Doris Kearns Goodwin, New York: New American Library, p. 155.</ref>}}
 The National Voting Rights Act of 1965<ref>42 U.S.C. § 1973-1973aa-6</ref> authorized, and in some areas required, federal oversight of elections and election laws. Many (but not all) of these areas were in the South, which was at that time controlled by the [[Democratic Party]]. The Act gave the [[Department of Justice]] the power to approve or reject any change in a voting law in certain districts where less than 50% of the population were registered to vote in 1964.  The Act also outlawed literacy tests.
 The Act was passed by the U.S. Congress over strong opposition within the Democratic Party. Republican Leader [[Everett Dirksen]] was instrumental in its passage.<ref>[http://www.congresslink.org/print_basics_histmats_civilrights64_cloturespeech.htm Everett McKinley Dirksen's Finest Hour: June 10, 1964], ''The Peoria Journal Star'', June 10, 2004, retrieved from The Dirksen Congressional center 05/20/07.</ref> in breaking the Democratic [[filibuster]]. Dirksen spoke on the Senate floor,
-{{quotebox|The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing of government, in education, and in employment. It must not be stayed or denied. It is here!}}
+{{quotebox-float|The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing of government, in education, and in employment. It must not be stayed or denied. It is here!}}
 Under Johnson, the Senate had not been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a Civil Rights Bill. With Republican support, the final count showed 44 Democrats and 27 Republicans voting to end the filibuster, with 23 Democrats and only 6 Republicans opposed. The formal Senate vote on the bill took place on June 19, 1964. It passed  73-27.

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 ===Clinton era===
 [[File:Flag of Arkansas.png|275px|thumb|The Arkansas State Flag. The top star above Arkansas represents the slave holding Confederacy, an Act signed into law by Clinton.]]
-:{{See also|Bill and Hillary Clinton and racism}}
+{{Quotebox-float|"violations of the [[Fourteenth amendment|fourteenth]] or [[fifteenth amendment]] justifying equitable relief have occurred in Arkansas.
 In May 1990, the district court turned to those claims, holding that "the State of Arkansas has committed a number of constitutional violations of the voting rights of black citizens." In particular, the court determined that the "State has systematically and deliberately enacted new majority-vote requirements for municipal offices, in an effort to frustrate black political success in elections traditionally requiring only a plurality to win."  In 1990...Devotion to majority rule for local offices lay dormant as long as the [[plurality]] system produced white office-holders. But whenever black candidates used this system successfully—and victory by a plurality has been virtually their only chance of success in at-large elections in majority-white cities—the response was swift and certain. Laws were passed in an attempt to close off this avenue of black political victory...
-This series of laws represents a systematic and deliberate attempt to reduce black political opportunity. Such an attempt is plainly unconstitutional. It replaces a system in which blacks could and did succeed, with one in which they almost certainly cannot. The inference of [[bigotry|racial motivation]] is inescapable.<ref>Findings of the Supreme Court of the United States in [http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/1990/sg900402.txt ''Clinton v. Jeffers''] No. 90-394 (1990) on appeal 730 F. Supp. 196, 198-201 (ED Ark. 1989) (three-judge court), aff'd, No. 89-2008 (Jan. 7, 1991).</ref><ref>http://commonsensewonder.blogspot.com/2016/09/bill-clintons-comment-about-trumps-make.html</ref>}}
+This series of laws represents a systematic and deliberate attempt to reduce black political opportunity. Such an attempt is plainly unconstitutional. It replaces a system in which blacks could and did succeed, with one in which they almost certainly cannot. The inference of [[bigotry|racial motivation]] is inescapable."<ref>Findings of the Supreme Court of the United States in [http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/1990/sg900402.txt ''Clinton v. Jeffers''] No. 90-394 (1990) on appeal 730 F. Supp. 196, 198-201 (ED Ark. 1989) (three-judge court), aff'd, No. 89-2008 (Jan. 7, 1991).</ref><ref>http://commonsensewonder.blogspot.com/2016/09/bill-clintons-comment-about-trumps-make.html</ref>}}
 In more than one thousand legislative elections, the Arkansas delta region sent not one black to the legislature. In 1988 the federal district court forced a change to the system in Crittenden County that watered down the presence of a large number of black voters.

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 :{{See also|2020 Democrat primaries|2020 Democratic party issues}}
 ====Iowa Democrat caucus====
-:{{Main article|2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses}}
+{{Main article|2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses}}
-Shadow, Inc. is the company that developed the Iowa and Nevada Democratic caucus app. FEC records show Buttigieg for America paid Shadow Inc. $42,000.  Former Clinton campaign chairman [[Robby Mook]] vetted the app for the Democratic party.<ref>https://pjmedia.com/election/hoo-boy-hillarys-campaign-manager-was-involved-with-that-disastrous-iowa-caucus-app/</ref>  Shadow, Inc. was launched by a dark money SuperPAC called Acronym,<ref>https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/02/05/acronym-group-behind-shadow/</ref> headed by CEO Tara McGowan, a former journalist and [[Obama for America]] operative who is married to a senior advisor of Buttieg's presidential campaign.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/06/group-that-sabotaged-iowa-caucus-begun-by-billionaire-backer-of-alabama-false-flag-campaign/</ref>  Acronym was founded by billionaire Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn.  Hoffman funded Project Birmingham, a covert voter suppression and [[fake news]] campaign based on the Russian model during dirty the 2017 [[Doug Jones]]/[[Roy Moore]] [[Alabama]] Senate race.  Obama crony [[David Plouffe]] sits on the board of Acronym.<ref>https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/02/04/hoo-boy-reading-this-damning-thread-from-lee-fang-about-pete-buttigieg-and-shadow-inc-its-no-wonder-mayorcheat-is-trending/</ref>
+Shadow, Inc. is the company that developed the Iowa and Nevada Democratic caucus app. FEC records show Buttigieg for America paid Shadow Inc. $42,000.  Former Clinton campaign chairman [[Robby Mook]] vetted the app for the Democratic party.<ref>https://pjmedia.com/election/hoo-boy-hillarys-campaign-manager-was-involved-with-that-disastrous-iowa-caucus-app/</ref>  Shadow, Inc. was launched by a dark money SuperPAC called Acronym,<ref>https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/02/05/acronym-group-behind-shadow/</ref> headed by CEO Tara McGowan, a former journalist and [[Obama for America]] operative who is married to a senior advisor of Buttieg's presidential campaign.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/06/group-that-sabotaged-iowa-caucus-begun-by-billionaire-backer-of-alabama-false-flag-campaign/</ref>  Acronym was founded by billionaire oligarch [[Reid Hoffman]], founder of LinkedIn.  Hoffman funded Project Birmingham, a covert voter suppression and [[fake news]] campaign based on the Russian model during dirty the 2017 [[Doug Jones]]/[[Roy Moore]] [[Alabama]] Senate race.  Obama crony [[David Plouffe]] sits on the board of Acronym.<ref>https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/02/04/hoo-boy-reading-this-damning-thread-from-lee-fang-about-pete-buttigieg-and-shadow-inc-its-no-wonder-mayorcheat-is-trending/</ref>
 On election night the Iowa Democratic party stopped counting when 98% of precincts were counted and Bernie Sanders was ahead by 2,500 votes. Only the precincts that would likely help Buttigieg were recounted, and the remainder of precincts were weighted to Sanders.  Under the apportionment system Buttigieg was awarded two more delegates and claimed victory, but Sanders won the statewide popular vote.<ref>http://www.dickmorris.com/democratic-race-whats-next-lunch-alert/</ref>  Seven of the last nine winners of the Iowa Caucus went on to win the Democratic nomination, and the DNC rigged the election to prevent Sanders from gaining momentum from a victory.  Of Buttigieg's 2 delegate margin of victory, 3 were awarded by coin toss.<ref>https://twitter.com/awzurcher/status/1224533900946485250</ref>  Due to Democrat corruption and election rigging, the ''[[Associated Press]]'' refused to recognize Buttigieg's claim of victory.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/caucuses-in-iowa-run-so-poorly-associated-press-refuses-to-declare-winner/</ref>

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 '''Voter suppression''' in the 21st century occurs mainly through defective voting machines, polling stations running out of paper, and other means of turning registered voters away from polling stations without voting.
-In the [[2020 presidential election]] and [[Biden Putsch]], the Democratic party suppressed the vote of 71 million Americans.  In the [[2022 Midterm elections]] voters who showed up at the polls as 7AM on their way to work to avoid long lines in the late afternoon were told the voting machines were not working and turned away.
+In the [[2020 presidential election]] and [[Biden Putsch]], the Democratic party suppressed the vote of 71 million Americans.  In the [[2022 Midterm elections]] voters who showed up at the polls at 7AM on their way to work to avoid long lines in the late afternoon were told the voting machines were not working and turned away.
 ==History==