Voter Suppression
Around October 4, I got an email saying that if I didn’t reply in two days, I would be taken off of the voter registration rolls. For some reason I did not reply fast enough. When I looked at the email again it was, October 7, 2021. I felt bad because my mother had a heart attack trying to go vote for Barack Obama in 2008. I figure she was trying to teach me about the importance of voting. It was one of the last lessons she taught me, before she died.
I talked to a friend. She told me not to give up. She said to call the registrar in Richmond, Va and ask if my name has been removed from the rolls. I know that I had voted last year in a presidential election, so l figured I should be still registered. I called the Richmond, Va Registrar to see if my name was still on the rolls, and it was. I asked the woman I talked to about receiving an email that my name would be taken off the rolls by October 6, 2021. She said the letter was probably sent by a “third party.”
I thought to myself “This is a type of voter suppression: Give a few days to reply to the email. Make a fake deadline, and so many people will end up not voting on November 2, 2021 because they think they are no longer registered. That is the trick.”
If you get an email , or a letter saying you have been taken off the voting rolls, call your state’s voter registration, to see if the information is real or fake. Don’t fall into the trap of not voting because you think you have been taken off the voting rolls.
Quote of the month:
“The Voter Expansion Project’s mission is clear. Ensure that every eligible citizen can register,every registered voter can vote, and every vote is accurately counted.”—Donna Brazile.
Quote found at Brainy Quotes/Voter Quotes.com. , on p. 2.
