>I'd love to see some data.
>I live minutes away from Trenton, which has one on the largest minority populations in NJ
>Newark, another predominantly minority city, is just up the road.
>Both cities have predominantly minority city councils.
>I just haven't heard a peep about voter suppression there.>
>Some minority districts in Phila voted 100% for Barack Obama.
>Hard to imagine that if there was voter suppression.
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There was some, what I would call, voter suppression in that election. Do you remember the guys with the billy clubs and baseball bats outside the polling place in Phila? They were minorities so maybe that doesn't count.
>I've read about long lines in some places due to voting machine foul-ups, etc but I haven't seen credible accusations of suppression that were substantiated.
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>There's no dispute that before the voting rights legislation passed by Lyndon Johnson, there was systematic disenfranchisement- not suppression.
>But that was decades ago.
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