POS2041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cumberland County, North Carolina, Rein, Felony Disenfranchisement
16 Aug 2020
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The film"s key jumping-off point is barack obama"s victory in 2008, when 25 percent of his vote came from african americans, latinos, and asian americans. It sent a clarion call to republicans that unless they took drastic action, facing exile in the political wilderness and possible extinction as a party, demographics were not on their side. Develop new policies to appeal to the rising majority of minority voters. Figure out how you turn out more of your people and less of the other guys. Republicans opted for the latter, deciding to find new ways to suppress. During the 2016 election, the filmmakers went on the road to see how this voter- suppression playbook would be put to use. In cumberland county, north carolina, the filmmakers capture a voter purge where the names of over 6,000 registered voters were removed by the clandestine efforts of a group called voter integrity project.
