Die USA, immer für neue Überraschungen “gut”. Es ist wenig bekannt, dass die US-Verfassung das Recht zu wählen nicht garantiert. Eine Entscheidung des ultra-konservativen US-Höchstgerichtes eröffnet Möglichkeiten für einzelne Staaten, das Wahlrecht für alle durch restriktive Regelungen einzuschränken, wird aus den USA berichtet. Besonders betroffen davon sollen Farbige, jüngere Wähler_innen, Frauen, und behinderte Menschen sein. 31 US-Staaten sollen derartige restriktive Regelungen in Erwägung ziehen, wird berichtet.
It’s a little known fact that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee the right to vote for everyone.
“The Supreme Court just aided and abetted those who seek to suppress our right to vote. … The Supreme Court’s decision is extreme, and simply unconscionable. At least 31 states are considering laws to make it harder to vote by restricting early voting periods, enacting harsh voter ID laws, and instituting the modern day equivalent of poll taxes.
The target for these discriminatory laws is clear: communities of color, and young, women, elderly, and disabled voters.
“In a 5-4 decision today, an ultra-conservative U.S. Supreme Court struck down key enforcement provisions of the Voting Rights Act, including those which required states with a history of racial disenfranchisement to get pre-approval from the US Department of Justice before those states could change voting laws. This opens the floodgates for states to pass restrictive voting laws across the country, such as voter identification laws and gerrymandered redistricting, that have the intended goal of preventing people of color from accessing the ballot box.
Millions of Americans are now threatened by attacks on our ability to vote, if we don’t act”, African Americans write.
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