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Gerald K. McOscar ..."Ms. Berger spent Election Day as a poll-observer in minority-majority West Philadelphia. She writes that after many conversations with confused and frustrated voters, she understands that our voting system makes it incredibly hard to exercise our right to vote. She understands too that while black people have long known about systemic obstacles to voting, as a white woman (undoubtedly privileged), she has been largely sheltered from those obstacles. This is why she joined the Pennsylvania Democrats' Voter Protection Team as a poll-observer in a majority black precinct.
"Not surprisingly, she observed voter suppression Nov. 3 on a grand scale.
"An "alarming" number of the nearly all black 500 voters she encountered experienced "obstacles.' "...
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