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How voter suppression came to England

How voter suppression came to England

The state-induced panic about a crime as rare as poaching the King’s unicorns

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Apr 13, 2023
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Challenging Voter Suppression - Free Speech For People

ENGLAND’S local elections on 4 May will be the first since the arrival of universal suffrage in 1929 that a government will seek to rig by denying the right to vote. If the ruling Conservative party gets its way, the local contests will be the prelude for full-scale voter suppression at the 2024 general election.

Until now, this country wanted to ensure …

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