Republican Voter Suppression!

[LaterBloomer]

Usually, I yawn at conspiracy theories. Or eyeroll. I can't help but think that there may be aunited effort by the Republican party to suppress the vote. This year, Virginia was a swing state. Fairfax, VA is the most heavilty-populated jurisdiction in VA. Fairfax has, over the years, become more liberal leaning. There is only one county-wide elected official, the Clerk of Court, who is a Repbulican. Since the Governor is a Republican, his party affiliation determines the electoral board for each jursidction. (Three to the board, two members of a governor's party, the third from the other party.) Recently, one of the members chosen for the electoral board was a gentleman with a long history of trying to tighten the rules regarding voting. The Clerk of Court sent a list of people who should be removed from the voter rolls as they had not appeared for jury duty. It turns out that at least one of the voters had not missed jury duty, and should not have been removed. It would be interesting to know if the Clerks in the more conservative jurisdictions were sending names to be removed from the rolls. It would be interesting to know if the Clerk has been doing this for his whole tenure, or just since VA came in to play for the Democrats. Kinda makes me wonder.