With Texas’ paper-based system, many voters’ applications get lost in the shuffle. Says a volunteer deputy registrar: “It just doesn't seem to really work the way that it’s supposed to.”
A July report from George Washington University found that Medicaid expansion would provide insurance to 360,000 people and add 18,000 jobs in the health care sector in South Carolina.
“Racism is the reason we don’t have Medicaid expansion. Full stop,” said Janice Probst, a former director of the Rural and Minority Health Research Center in South Carolina. “These are not accidents. There is an idea that you can stay in power by using racism.”
Counterpoint: it might be working exactly as it is ‘supposed to’.
Registrar: Hmm, this name sounds ‘brown’. I’ll put it in the ‘maybe’ pile.
Hmm these are coming from the University… these go into that same pile.
But since it’s both things, it goes into the “ooops, we seemed to have misplaced that” bin. It’s the bite one the custodians empty out daily.
“The purpose of a system is what it does”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does
Thank you for this! Here’s a real life example (https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/racist-policies-black-health-south-carolina/):
Unfortunately, this is exactly right. Republican vote suppression at it’s finest (i.e. it’s lowest moment).