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The right to vote for millions of US citizens has been targeted by state-sanctioned voter suppression for several decades (and simply prevented for many decades before that). A 201 3 Supreme Court decision (5 to 4) gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by removing oversight of nine states with the most egregious history. Increasingly, states are enacting laws that restrict ballot access for people of color, low-income folks, the elderly and disabled, and students. Voters face a variety of obstacles aimed to discourage or prevent them from voting. With the most fundamental right of democratic citizenship at risk, growing suppression is stimulating effective resistance, localized and specific to the communities being threatened. Now Donald Trump openly talks about eliminating elections, but we're not going to let him! Show more