How Misinformation Fuels the Myth of Widespread Voter Suppression

Tom Egelhoff
3 min readMar 24, 2024

Is someone or something keeping you from voting?

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Every election, “voter suppression” buzzwords start making the rounds. I think it’s high time someone, that would be me, sets the record straight on this ongoing myth.

Voter suppression only seems to be a concern to the left side of the political aisle. I’ve tried to decipher what voter suppression is, and so far, I’ve come up empty.

My left-leaning friends would be quick to tell me that I don’t have a handle on the societal makeup of our nation.

Apparently, there’s a vast right-wing clandestine conspiracy to keep people of color from getting anywhere near a voting booth.

Why is that?

Who Is Being Suppressed?

The left seems to feel that things like identification and voter registration should be set aside for minorities.

For some reason, the left seems to feel that they have a lock on these minorities, and if they are unable to vote, then all is…

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Tom Egelhoff
Tom Egelhoff

Written by Tom Egelhoff

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