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5. Stopping blacks, students, and democrats from voting is in the G.O.P. playbook.
Tue May 5, 2026, 01:47 PM
16 hrs ago

William Rehnquist did it in Arizona in the 1960s, 90,000 blacks were removed from voting in Florida
in 2000, in Ohio something like 250,00 voters were forced to vote provisional ballots in 2004, millions
of African Americans were removed from voting by interstate cross check in 2016, and in 2024 millions
of voters were removed from voting by all kinds of crap.

Paul Weyrick:

Weyrich was a supporter of voter suppression, saying in 1980: "I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."



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