"Emboldened by the most precise partisan and racial gerrymanders [as a result of Project RedMap launched in time for Election 2010; add to this the gutting of the VRA in 2013] this nation has ever seen, Republican vote suppressors moved on to new quarry, enacting punishing voter ID laws, overseeing mass purges of voting rolls that disenfranchised minority and other Democratic-leaning voting blocs, closing precincts and polling station ...

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"Emboldened by the most precise partisan and racial gerrymanders [as a result of Project RedMap launched in time for Election 2010; add to this the gutting of the VRA in 2013] this nation has ever seen, Republican vote suppressors moved on to new quarry, enacting punishing voter ID laws, overseeing mass purges of voting rolls that disenfranchised minority and other Democratic-leaning voting blocs, closing precincts and polling stations, approving restrictions on registration, and even modern-day poll taxes."

This long, highly educational article summarizes an epidemic of voter suppression that threatens to seat a far-right government for years to come. If the people's vote can't count, democracy will end.

David Daley is author of the blockbusters Raif**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count and Unrigged: How Americans Fought Back, Slayed the Gerrymander and Reinvented Democracy.

Authors Website: http://www.wordsunltd.com

Authors Bio:

Marta Steele is an author/editor/blogger who has been writing for Opednews.com since 2006. She is also author of the 2012 book "Grassroots, Geeks, Pros, and Pols: The Election Integrity Movement's Nonstop Battle to Win Back the People's Vote, 2000-2008" (Columbus, Free Press) and a member of the Election Integrity movement since 2001. Her original website, WordsUnLtd.com, first entered the blogosphere in 2003. She recently became a senior editor for Opednews.com. She has in the past taught college and worked as a full-time as well as freelance reporter. She has been a peace and election integrity activist since 1999. Her undergraduate and graduate educational background are in Spanish, classical philology, and historical and comparative linguistics. Her biography is most recently listed in "Who's Who in America" 2019 and in 2018 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Who's Who.