The Madison County Democratic Party said hundreds of people were disenfranchised in 2016, and Alabama’s political media dutifully reported the story without evidence. They lied.
Election Day came and went and there were zero legitimate cases of voter suppression in the state of Alabama. In fact, four students who claimed suppression had their court cases dismissed in court by a Barack Obama-appointed judge.
Keep in mind, this happened after an election of a Democratic United States Senator in Alabama that was solely, incorrectly, on the turnout of black female voters.
The same story could be told about the media feeding frenzy on voter suppression in Georgia that never panned out. It was so non-existent Georgia Democrats are running ads and have set up a hotline seeking it out a week later.
But Alabama Democrats wanted to get in on that fake nonsense, too.
It wasn’t just the South, though. The national media pretended that North Dakota was attempting to keep Native Americans from the polls. If they were, they failed.
Galvanized by a voter ID law, Native Americans turned out in record numbers in North Dakota — and a Native American woman unseated the law's architect https://t.co/O6gZq5Jbm0
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) November 14, 2018
That’s right, suppression was so rampant that more Native Americans than ever turned out at the polls.
It’s time we move past this idea that getting an I.D. is an insurmountable task or a threat to our way of life.
@TheDaleJackson is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts a conservative talk show from 7-11 am weekdays on WVNN
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