Why did Democrats do nothing about CROSSCHECK and other voter suppression efforts?

[yurbud]

This was well documented well ahead of the election, and not only that, a similar effort with the felon voter purge in Florida in 2000 cut 100 times more voters from the rolls than Bush's margin of victory there.

Likewise, they seem to have completely ignored how easily electronic voting machines can be manipulated (more likely by GOP plumbers and ratfuckers than Russkies).

Does any have the inside scoop on how this can happen for at least two decades?

[elleng]

1. Ask the Democratic 'leadership?'

[LisaM]

2. Because it's a moving target.

There has been a lot of work on addressing voter suppression after the Voting Rights Act was shredded by the SCOTUS, but many of the cases have to work their way through court. Unfortunately.

Me? I hope the Clinton Foundation sinks a ton of resources into this.

[yurbud]

4. In addition to court action, there should be some other creative action

[LisaM]

5. Like what?

I'm sure your suggestions would be very welcomed by the people who are being disenfranchised.

[yurbud]

8. We have this massive surveillance apparatus that could be legitimately used with a couple of

subpoenas.

And there are probably ways to watch the traffic to and from the tabulators.

[Wilms]

3. Republicans control a lot of states.

I thought Holder did a pretty good job with Voter Suppression issues.

From there, I got nothin'.

[LisaM]

6. Holder worked really hard on it.

AFAIK, he's now devoting a lot of time to it.

[Wilms]

7. That...

...and Wall Street. Same as it ever was.

[MineralMan]

9. Elections are a state issue.

What did you do in your state about this? In my state of Minnesota, democrats have worked for years to create fair elections.