Okay, you had your chance GB’s-tiny-optimism-manifesting-as-an-upbeat character. Now it’s my turn!
There’re a lot of people in previous generations with a lot of money and power that don’t want you, the most educated, ethnically diverse and youngest participants of our country’s democracy to vote. So let’s talk about how...
they’re TRYING TOsuppress
your vote.
For example, it took almost 100 years later for black americans to get the right to vote:
black so
you can’t vote!
You
can vote now.
Why so long? Because people with a lot of power and money didn’t want that to happen. And then it took 50 more years for women to get the right to vote:
woman so you can’t vote!
kidding. You can vote now.
Why so long? Because people with a lot of power and money didn’t want that to happen. And then it took almost 50 more years after that for it to be illegal for state and local governments to racially discriminate against its own voting citizens:
can vote
like us
now.
Why so long? Because people with a lot of power and money didn’t want that to happen.
“When they try to make it hard for you to vote, it’s because they know you are powerful and you matter.”
Cristela Alonzo
Comedian / Writer / Producer / Actor
So want to know some ways they
suppress your vote?
Well, it’s not too late to avoid going down this path if the reader has been persuaded to vote for the first time in next month’s elections.