Voter suppression has been going on in the US since the Civil War. In the good old days, black voters had to take literacy tests to vote or pay a poll tax.
Then the Republicans tried to cage votes at the pools by intimidating targeted voters when they showed up at the polls.
Republicans secretly purged voters form the voter rolls prior to the 2001 presidential election which allowed GW Bush to win in Florida. There are also stories about state troopers blocking roads to the polls in minority neighborhoods,
Now the Florida legislature changed the voting law so that early voting has been cut from two weeks to one. Also, anyone enrolling voters can face severe financial penalties for not registering the new voters within 48 hours.
In addition, felons would not be able to vote for seven years after they are released. That is only after an extensive application is completed to have voting rights restored. That law will disenfranchise 100,000 voters, most of whom are minorities.
That seven year provision of Florida law is brazenly unconstitutional. It is really a form of double jeopardy.
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