Originally posted by snapper
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Historically, poll taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses were used to prevent black people from voting, mainly in the South.
Other kinds of voter suppression are closing voting stations in specific neighborhoods where opponents' supporters might live, offering preliminary ballots to people waiting to vote (in an effort to minimize the chances of such votes being counted), refusing to count absentee ballots or to hold recounts due to costs involved, denying college students the right to register dormitory addresses, shutting down voter registration websites during the Democratic National Convention, sites that are ludicrously run by the Department of Defense for Americans abroad, due to alleged hacking attempts (as if attempted hacking into DoD websites wasn't a daily occurence) and requiring voter ID that poorer people might have trouble obtaining.
At the more direct level, it may include sending messages that the election date (or voting location) has changed or physically intimidating people seeking to vote
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