{"id":21512,"date":"2021-05-03T16:08:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T16:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=21512"},"modified":"2021-05-03T17:43:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T17:43:57","slug":"amber-ruffin-voter-suppression","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/amber-ruffin-voter-suppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Ruffin Explains The History Of Voter Suppression Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If Republican politics were a prom, the mean girls of the GOP have definitely settled on their 2021 theme: Voter Suppression Under the Stars! As of late March, legislators in 47 states have introduced a whopping 361 bills that would restrict access to the polls, according to the Brennan Center for Justice<\/a>. Early voting, absentee voting and mail-in voting are all under fire, while Georgia\u2019s new voting law<\/a> goes so far as to prohibit anyone from providing food or water<\/a> to voters waiting in long lines at their polling places.<\/p>\n

On the latest episode of The Amber Ruffin Show<\/em><\/a>, the late night host made it clear, for anyone still wondering, exactly what\u2019s going on: \u201cThese voter suppression bills are designed specifically to curb the ways that Black people and other likely democrats, like city dwellers and working class people, vote.\u201d<\/p>\n