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Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by cyphar on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @05:04AM (#22245470)
Courts found that the North Carolina voter ID laws were designed to be discriminatory[1]. Same in Texas[2]. So it's definitely true in at least two cases that voter ID laws were provably designed for voter suppression.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/north-c... [2]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/20/texas-voter-...

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Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by LargeWu on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @10:52AM (#22247833)
Not only provably, but explicitly. Voter suppression was the primary intent.
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Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by cyphar on Sunday February 09, 2020 @08:47PM (#22285746)
Something being provably true is a higher bar than it being explicitly stated (because an explicit statement isn't enough to prove something to be true). I agree that voter suppression was the primary intent, but the legislation wasn't called "The Illegal Voter Suppression Act 2013".
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