The Brookings Institute has published a report on modern voter suppression in the United States, the results are horrifying though not unexpected.

The Republican Party has successfully brought back systemic, country-wide voter suppression, the likes of which the country has not seen since legal segregation. The report calls voter-Id laws the new “poll-tax” of the modern era.

From the article:

1.”Wisconsin’s efforts mirrored those in North Carolina where advocates purported that nearly 300,000 people lacked the proper ID to participate in the 2016 presidential election, even after parts of the state’s law were deemed unconstitutional upon appeal.”

2.”In Florida, 1.5 million people were disenfranchised by a law that disqualifies ex-felons from voting, resulting in one in every four African American residents unable to vote in 2016.”

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has only made things worse. He has worked to undo any reform on voter rights that the Obama-administration worked on.

Disenfranchisement, stringent voter id laws, voter purges and intentional disinformation is being used to keep Americans from going to the polls.