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So What is This?

This site will discuss voting because Americans do not vote that much, and that is a problem. In the 2016 election, about 100,000,000 Americans who were eligible to vote did not cast a ballot. A participatory democracy like America's requires participation to be truly democratic. 

There are more Americans living in these seven red states then there are Americans who voted in the 2016 presidential election.  

But what if I told you some of those 100,000,000 Americans who stayed home on election day wanted to vote but were not allowed because of our system of voter ID laws.

As it turns out, the laws that are supposed to protect our elections are actually making them less democratic.

Dive into this project and see how the implementation of voter ID laws have led to voter suppression. First, we will examine the recent history of voting in America to see when it got difficult to vote. We will look to see if these laws are justified in any sense by preventing voter fraud. Next, we will see if even small-scale voter suppression can have a big impact in deciding an election. And finally, we will look at who benefits from a system designed to keep some voters at home on election day. 

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Voter ID laws are the biggest problem in America you didn't think was that big of a problem. Click the button below and get ready to be upset at the sad state of our process of electing our leaders. 

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