You're asking Republicans to clear the booby-trapped voting obstacle course that keeps millions of Hispanics, blacks, students and other minorities from voting.
ironically, polling suggests that clinton's largest voting obstacle isn't related to a gender gap, but an age gap. a recent poll by nbc news/wall street journal/marist has sanders leading among millennials by over 70percentt with sanders receiving more donations from women than clinton.
Solutions to obvious voting obstacles aren't hard to grasp: online registration, early voting, more and better trained poll workers, and modern technology like paper ballots backed by scanners, set to national standards.
A resulting cornerstone of the civil rights movement during that era included the removal of voting obstacles.
Despite this entrenched pattern and past voting obstacles, there are compelling reasons for blacks in Ferguson to rush to barricades this time to vote.
Earlier in her interview with NPR, Abrams pointed to other voting obstacles and examples of systemic disenfranchisement in Georgia, including long voting lines, broken machines and voter roll purges.
"Because those who lack SB 14 photo ID are subjected to separate voting obstacles and procedures, SB 5's methodology remains discriminatory because it imposes burdens disproportionately on Blacks and Latinos".
Ironically, the threat of the "papers please" law, SB 1070, allowing cops to stop and demand proof of citizenship IDs from suspected illegal immigrants, especially any Latinos, is so infuriating to them that it's likely to trump the voting obstacles placed in their way.
As a result of Congressional inaction, look for more long lines, failed machines, questionable voter purges, election-day dirty tricks, GOP challenges to minority voters and ill-trained poll-workers who, following last week's court decision, are even more likely to mistakenly demand photo ID where it's not required, among other voting obstacles.
The following day, Feb. 2, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will hold a day-long public meeting in Raleigh to gather public testimony about voting rights obstacles in for its 2018 report to Congress.
They want obstructions to strike votes and obstacles for the poor, the young and low paid, just as they resisted universal suffrage in the past.
