If not for the misogynists and racists...

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36. And the Brennan Center reports research on it

from Dec. 23, 2024:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/racial-turnout-gap-grew-georgia-again

"Over the past 15 years, the racial turnout gap in the United States has grown dramatically. A good deal of the widening gap — but by no means all of it — can be attributed to restrictive state voting policies, such as Georgia’s Senate Bill 202, following the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which hollowed out key protections against racially discriminatory voting rules. Perhaps just as important as formal laws and policies making voting more difficult are features in our democratic systems that leave many Americans of color underrepresented, which leads to disengagement from political participation. Campaign finance laws make it more difficult for low-income Americans to raise the money they need to run for office, the Electoral College reduces the value of most Americans’ presidential votes, and gerrymandered maps keep one party in power. To be sure, there were other reasons voters stayed home this year, like anger over inflation, that can’t be directly tied back to features of our democracy..."