Emperor Palpatine doesn't want you to vote.
Charlie Pierce takes on one of the most pernicious tactics of the modern GOP: Voter suppression. Voter suppression is done under the guise of preventing voting fraud, which - as far as anyone has been able to determine despite massive amount of study - DOES NOT OCCUR on anything like scale. Someone somewhere probably voted twice, but no one has pointed to a trend or a movement.
So to solve a problem that doesn't exist, the GOP has reinstituted poll taxes. Just read the thing.
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