'Stop right now': Ex-prosecutor warns about one of the oldest 'voter suppression' tricks
Donald Trump's right wing is ready to alienate voters who oppose him, and the former president's critics shouldn't fall for it, a former federal prosecutor said Sunday.
Ex-prosecutor Joyce Vance said over the weekend that she has been hearing "a lot of people expressing concern that voting won’t matter this November, people saying on social media and in conversations in person that Trump will steal the election or that the courts will."
"If you’re starting to think this way, I want you to stop right now. This is one of the oldest strategies in the voter suppression handbook: telling you not to bother voting because your vote won’t count, that it doesn’t matter," she then added. "And that just isn’t true. We don’t have to look any further than the 2020 election to understand how powerful our right to vote is in the face of a would-be despot."
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Vance added in her Substack post Sunday that, "Thinking Trump will just steal the election is a form of suppression. Don’t do that to yourself or the republic. If ever there was a time to prepare to vote, it’s the week ahead."
"Recent polls aren’t as good for Joe Biden as he might have wanted them to be and there are a lot of people on social media suggesting a Trump victory is inevitable. Of course, we know that’s not the case," she said. "Polls are mixed, and people pushing a certain narrative don’t always have pure motives and often aren’t who they pretend to be online. November is a long way out. Polls ahead of the snap election in France showing a quick, easy victory for Le Pen and the far right got it completely wrong. And as the Angry Staffer account tweeted this morning, 'Polls don’t vote.'"