Yes, and that's bad, but I don't see how this is necessarily part of that. Are POC disproportionately likely to move without updating voter registration, or to not check their mail? Is there an indication people who don't move and do check their mail have been suspended?
Agreeing with everything Buddhabound said. This also specifically targets every four year voters (presidential cycle). In Texas the 2021 snowpocalypse pushed a lot of folks into multiple moves due to building damage.
Thanks for pointing out how this hits voters who typically only vote in presidential elections, generally made up of people who voter suppression groups don't want to vote (low income voters with all of the systemic issues identified earlier), who generally skew Democratic and BIPOC.
You have intersectionality that happens here. Low-income people are more likely to move (they're not homebuyers, & are more affected by landlords raising rents where they're unaffordable, more frequent job changes as minimum wage jobs are less stable, etc.), & POC are disproportionately low income.
Changes in housing and employment are impacted by all of systemic failure issues: no childcare, no/poor public transportation, little/no health/dental care, and on and on... All of these are well-documented to disproportionately impact POC, leading to housing and employment insecurity.
So, policies that have the appearance of being race-neutral have disproportionate impacts on POC. This is systemic across states that do this kind of voter suppression & is usually driven by ALEC, an arm of the Heritage Foundation who also funds these large scale efforts to remove voters from rolls.
They also make it hard for people who work low-wage jobs to vote, either bc they don't have childcare or can't get off work. They cause lines to be long in low income communities by removing voting locations. That means low wage workers get knocked off the rolls for not voting in an election.
Again, the policy may appear race-neutral, but the people pushing these policies have openly stated that they don't want poor people and POC voting. They want as few people to vote as possible and have said so (link to Paul Weyrich, founder of Heritage Foundation:
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