The Southern Strategy is at least forty years old and still going strong.
Voters in many states now must stand in line at DMV's that are intentionally closed capriciously to get their ID to vote.
The Koch machine knows this voter ID fad is an excellent way to keep minorities in their place. And to cement their power.
And the people are making some efforts to point out the problems inherent to limiting the vote to male white christian land owners.
Transgender persons have an especially difficult time dealing with even getting an ID that matches their gender presentation. It took me over $300.00 and three months to get just one of several required documents. This makes these voter ID laws specifically callous to Transgender persons. This is on top of poll workers that will try and insist my ID is my siblings and other such nonsense.
Harris-Perry has personal insight into the challenges transgender Americans face in attempts to vote. Her gender non-conforming relative confronts obstacles when presenting as male, but a student ID purports femaleness. When the sex on an individual’s birth certificate or photo ID doesn’t match someone’s gender identity, Harris-Perry argues that the resulting complications are both unfair and un-American.
“All of those things impact the ability of people to have the kind of state-issued ID that is allowable in a lot of these states around voting,” she said. “And so the idea that a person would be a perfectly eligible American citizen who has an opinion about voting and is kept out of it because of those sorts of issues — it goes to the heart of helping us understand that these efforts are really voter suppression efforts, not efforts to keep the election process above board.”
Harris-Perry argues the conversation around suppressing voters has been too narrow and has failed to include the wide range of impacted identities: “I think we haven’t had a clear enough understanding of just how broad suppression is, how many different groups it impacts.”
If you are not a male white christian land owner please
register someone to vote today.