Voter suppression targets the political power of liberal and nonwhite majorities.

Evidence

The larger implication is clear enough: a majority made up of liberals and nonwhites isn’t a real majority. And the solution is clear, too: to write those people out of the polity, to use every available tool to weaken their influence on American politics—whether that means raising barriers to voting and registration or slashing access to the ballot box itself or anything in between. The Trump administration’s failed attempt to place a citizenship question on the census was an important part of this effort. By requiring this information, the administration hoped to suppress the number of immigrant respondents, worsening their representation in the House and the Electoral College, reweighting power to the white rural areas that backed Trump and the Republican Party. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 660

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the anti-democratic governance and privilege-vs-equality theme; also echoes the earlier framing that democratic compromise was built on excluding Black Americans. — connects to: Politicians suppress minority turnout and invent threats to mask authoritarianism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1373; Voter suppression becomes delegitimation when fused to fraud conspiracy claims — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 209