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Athlete activism reached incredible heights this year, and it may have helped Joe Biden win

Voting is supposed to be a right of pretty much all Americans over the age of 18.

Not everyone who has the right uses it. For some it’s just apathy or believing their vote doesn’t matter.

For others, particularly non-white citizens, it is not wanting to deal with the challenge of voting: more and more in recent years, since the Supreme Court effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act, we’ve seen jurisdictions make it harder to do — a 2017 study showed the non-white voters are seven times more likely to wait an hour or more to vote than white voters.