Our Voting Rights Are Under Assault

By Bryan Jenkins     I’m having nightmares about the ongoing assault on voting rights, primarily affecting us voters of color. It’s a not-so-quiet movement taking place in the legislatures of 47 of these United States! In my 66 years, I’ve voted by mail many times. But now several elected officials are on record claiming – with NO evidence from any state or locality – that voting by mail opens our election to massive fraud! They make this claim despite the fact that, during the Covid scare in particular, voting by mail proved to be the safest, most convenient way to exercise our constitutional right and responsibility to vote.   Now get this… by-and-large, people most likely to vote by mail are working-class folks – generally people who can’t afford to take time off work to wait for hours in polling place lines. Some states have already insured we’ll face those lines – which serve to suppress the vote – by closing down polling places and limiting the days polls are open. And guess where it’s happening?… in Red States, among mostly working class communities of color!   Former President Donald Trump installed Louis Dejoy, a loyal donor, as Postmaster General. The man had...