[macintux]

> how is voter suppression operating

Well, one egregious example would be sending a SWAT team to arrest someone in the early morning because they were erroneously allowed to register but not to vote.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/08/florida-voter-fr...

Or aggressively purging voter rolls in minority districts.

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lawsuit-alleges-ohio-illegally-p...

Or closing voting sites in minority areas.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/poll-closures-rural-...

Or outlawing handing out water to people waiting in line to vote.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/29/josh-holme...

And early/absentee voting has been on the firing line.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/vot...

[hunglee2]

thanks. This is outrageous. How is it possible for these actions to occur, especially closing voting sites? Surely there should be federal mandate that there should be X number of voting sites per Y number of residents

[macintux]

Like much else in the U.S. system of government, responsibility for managing elections is distributed between the federal and local governments, and most of the laws are local, not federal.

For decades much of the south was under federal oversight because the suppression of black voting rights was so flagrant that Congress passed a law to impose some sanity, but the law was significantly hamstrung by the Supreme Court in 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965