Bring Back the Poll Tax!-The GOP War on Voting Rights

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Pub Date 6 Aug 2021 | Archive Date 20 Jul 2021

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In Bring Back the Poll Tax! —The GOP War on Voting Rights, Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson presents a grim and gloomy assessment of how, why, and by what means the GOP has waged a ruthless, no-holds-barred war to massively restrict voting in America.

Hutchinson surveys the history of the ploys, laws, and barriers the GOP has thrown up.

He assesses the history of voting rights suppression and disenfranchisement of Blacks and minorities from the days of the Jim Crow poll taxes and literacy tests to the non-stop GOP assault on the 1965 Voting Rights Act. 

 Bring Back the Poll Tax! —The GOP War on Voting Rights presents a comprehensive analysis of the fact and fiction of vote fraud in America. Hutchinson details the steps that are, have, and can be taken to combat the GOP’s bogus voter suppression scare campaign.

Hutchinson sounds a clarion call that nothing less than the right of every citizen to fully enjoy the fruit of America’s democratic political process is on the line in this high-stakes war. Bring Back the Poll Tax! —The GOP War on Voting Rights

 is a primer on what and how citizens can fight to preserve their most fundamental American right. That’s their right to vote 

In Bring Back the Poll Tax! —The GOP War on Voting Rights, Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson presents a grim and gloomy assessment of how, why, and by what means the GOP has waged a ruthless...


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With the ever-expanding attacks on voting rights that have come out of red state legislatures following the 2020 election, Earl Ofari Hutchinson’s book is a timely and compelling read.

Hutchinson, who has a PhD in sociology as well as a B.S. in psychology and an M.A. in humanities, began his career by publishing a newsletter while hosting a radio show on social and political issues. He went on to write for several well-known newspapers and magazines including the Huffington Post before publishing several books on the issues surrounding race in America.

In his latest book, he explores the history of voting rights and oppression in the U.S. and shows how the past is still informing the present with legislative plays on election laws from the GOP.

While congressional Republicans have propagated the narrative of election security based on an immediate risk of election fraud, Hutchinson makes it clear that this is only a cover for their real ploy, which is to control who is allowed to vote to sway elections in their favor.

Time and time again, voter fraud commissions appointed by GOP Secretaries of State and Department of Justice officials have found virtually no evidence of widespread election fraud.

Hutchinson points out that these investigations have culminated in “14 vote fraud cases in 22 states out of 84 million votes cast,” or a 0.00000017% fraud rate. In regards to federal election fraud cases, the Department of Justice found that just 0.00000013% of the ballots cast in the 2002 and 2004 elections were fraudulent.

Bring Back the Poll Tax offers a plethora of information on voting rights and the legislation that both affirms and violates this essential part of our democracy. Earl Ofari Hutchinson did a great job of providing factual evidence that backs up his view that the GOP is less concerned with maintaining our constitutional rights than it is with its own power.

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