Examples of voter suppression in the following topics:
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- Many causes have been proposed for the decline in voting, including demographics, voter fatigue and voter suppression, among other things.
- Voter suppression instead attempts to reduce the number of voters who might vote against the candidate or proposition advocated by the suppressors.
- Similarly, voter suppression is a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising their right to vote .
- Voter suppression instead attempts to reduce the number of voters who might vote against the candidate or proposition advocated by the suppressors.
- This suppression can be in the form of unfair tests or requirements to vote.
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- For a large part of US history Black voters were blocked from voting, either directly or through political practices that targeted Black voters indirectly.
- Today, the average participation of African American voters is still somewhat lower than white voters, but there is great variety within these voting patterns.
- While the fifteenth amendment provided legal protection for voting rights based on race, during the Jim Crow era, politicians created new institutions to suppress the vote of Black residents.
- States then began to pass official voter suppression legislation.
- During the early parts of the 1900s, the NAACP brought forward several successful cases to challenge state voter suppression laws.
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- In the early years the NAACP campaigned vigorously against lynching, voter suppression laws, for education rights, and blocked the nomination of a segregationist Supreme Court Judge.
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- Considerable violence and fraud had accompanied elections during Reconstruction, as the white Democrats used paramilitary groups from the 1870s to suppress black Republican voting and turn Republicans out of office.
- They succeeded in disenfranchising most of the black citizens, as well as many poor whites in the South, and voter rolls dropped dramatically in each state.
- Following continuing violence around elections as insurgents worked to suppress black voting, the Democratic-dominated Southern states passed legislation to create barriers to voter registrations by blacks and poor whites, starting with the Georgia poll tax in 1877.
- In 1890 Mississippi adopted a new constitution, which contained provisions for voter registration which required voters pay poll taxes and pass a literacy test.
- Voter registration and turnout dropped sharply across the South, as most blacks and many poor whites were excluded from the political system.
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- Justice Department and the U.S. military to suppress white insurgency and support Republican reconstructed states.
- The deployment of the U.S. military was central to the establishment of Southern Reconstructed state governments and the suppression of violence against black and white voters.
- States would still determine voter registration and electoral laws.
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- Institutional factors have a significant impact on voter turnout.
- Conversely, adding barriers, such as a separate registration process, can suppress turnout.
- Compulsory voting ensures a large voter turnout.
- Any compulsion affects the freedom of an individual, and the fining of recalcitrant non-voters is an additional impact on a potential recalcitrant voter.
- In the United States and most Latin American nations, voters must go through separate voter registration procedures before they are allowed to vote.
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- White rural voters: With the New Deal's focus on rural reforms, farm subsidies, and control of the agricultural market, white rural voters only strengthened their earlier support of the Democratic Party.
- White Southerners: This group of voters traditionally supported Democratic candidates so the New Deal coalition did not change their loyalties.
- African Americans: Black voters did not support Roosevelt in 1932.
- Historians note, however, that in 1932 black voters supported Hoover not because he had done much for black communities but rather not to support the candidate of the party that had a long history of suppressing African Americans.
- By the early 1940s, most black voters supported Democrats although at the time many African Americans continued to be disenfranchised.
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- Although the Jackson presidency witnessed an expansion of liberty for some, it also saw the continued suppression of freedom for others.
- American politics became increasingly democratic beginning in the 1820's, as many state and local offices went from being appointed to being elective, and the original requirements for voters to own property were abolished.
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- Generally, elections consist of voters casting ballots at polling places on a scheduled election day .
- Strictly majoritarian systems are rare in modern democracies due to their tendency for suppressing minority views.
- Most national elections require that voters are citizens, and many local elections require proof of local residency to vote.
- Many electoral systems require voters to cast ballots at official, regulated polling places.
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- These paramilitary groups turned out Republican officeholders and terrorized and assassinated other freedmen and their allies to suppress voting.
- More importantly, in a second wave of violence following the suppression of the Ku Klux Klan, violence began to increase in the Deep South.
- They disrupted Republican meetings, killed leaders and officeholders, intimidated voters at the polls, or kept voters away altogether.
- As Democrats took over state legislatures, they worked to change voter registration rules to strip most blacks and many poor whites of their ability to vote.