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NEW: At least 18 voting centers in Alaska Native communities have not opened despite early voting having already started in the state last week. “There is no legal excuse for the failure to open these sites,” one state senator wrote to the Alaska elections chief.

democracydocket.comAlaska Natives’ early voting hampered by unlawful closuresAt least 18 early voting sites in Alaska Native communities have yet to open, which is hampering turnout among a historically disenfranchised population.

Nobody had to pass a law or win a lawsuit for this one. Just leave the doors locked in Native communities while early voting runs somewhere else. Suppression by shrug is still suppression, it just comes with plausible deniability built in.

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