After some discussion in a different thread, I was keeping an eye out about possible "voter suppression" in USA in lieu of the coming elections.
And I found this:
https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/v...analysis-finds
Apparently, after some SCOTUS ruling in 2013, "voter purge", removing people from the rolls (for any reason including death, moving away etc), has jumped up significantly, reaching 17M voters. While this is alarming by itself, what is
downright suspicious is that after the SCOTUS stripped some protection from districts with a history of discriminations, those districts are purging voters 40% faster and that this 40% alone counts for 1.1
million votes. Again, those 1.1 million "extra" purged votes are in districts with a history of discrimination.
According to the study, the counties under federal supervision before the 2013 ruling were purging at the same rate as the rest of the country more or less. Once out of federal supervision, those counties jumped up and according to the numbers in the study this trend has not diminished. As the study explains it was not a "one time jump", they purge in higher numbers since they are out of supervision.
The link provided has a map that shows the counties that are affected most.
Do you think this voter purge spike is suspicious? Or it's just better "cleaning of house" now that the states have the "tools they need" to be able to do a better job? The study mentions that minority voters are more likely to be affected but doesn't present numbers about this. If someone has numbers it would help.