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Voter Suppression and Why The Republicans Love It So Much?

gandalfe said:
I'm in Oregon. We all get our ballots mailed to us. And we consistently have some of the highest voter turnout in the nation.
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That’s a major problem if you’re a political party whose ideas and candidates aren’t popular.
 
fishonjazz said:
My ballot gets automatically mailed to me. I also vote early. Republicans want to eliminate those things? Well thats lame.
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Mine too and it’s awesome. Why make voting hard? Shouldn’t it be easy? Why make voting as hard as getting Comcast to fix the cable?

Let’s let the best candidates and ideas win. If your side can’t win, then it’s time to re-adjust the ideas and candidates. Instead, one party wants to throw out election results that don’t go their way and then prevent voters from voting.
 
Participating in democracy is “too woke” now.

www.theguardian.com

Texas guts ‘woke civics’. Now kids can't engage in a key democratic process

Many states have restricted how schools can teach race and gender, but only Texas has banned student interaction with elected officials
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Texas is the only one nationwide to suppress students’ interactions with elected officials in class projects, according to researchers at the free expression advocacy group Pen America.

Practically overnight, a growing movement to engage Texas students in real-world civics lessons evaporated. Teachers canceled time-honored assignments, districts reversed expansion plans with a celebrated civics education provider and a bill promoting student civics projects that received bipartisan support in 2019 was suddenly dead in the water.
Texas does require high schoolers to take a semester of government and a semester of economics, and is one of 38 statesnationwide that mandates at least a semester of civics. But students told the 74 the courses typically rely on book learning and memorization, without hands-on lessons in civic participation.

“Students are now banned from advocating for something like a stop sign in front of their school,” Talarico said.
The central philosophy is that “students learn civics best by doing civics”, Generation Citizen policy director Andrew Wilkes said.

Generation Citizen’s method has been studied by several academic researchers who found participants experienced boosted civic knowledge and improvements in related academic areas like history and English.

Kurtz, however, contends the projects “tilt overwhelmingly to the left”.
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