Ray From Cleveland
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It doesn't need to.
If new rule is made, that targets the voting habits of a particular group which doesn't tend to vote for the party of the rule makers, in such a way that it inhibits their ability to vote then yes, it has the potential to disenfranchise them. You are aiming to make it more difficult for a particular group. With Sunday voting, for example - there is absolutely no fraud-related explanation to it. It is one of many small changes that cumulatively impact specific voting groups and have no relationship to fraud.
Spin it any way your masters tell you to, but it ain't going to change what it is.
It's not targeting any group of voters. But our election system should not be catering to those people either. Hey, I would like it if they held elections at bars, and so would a lot of people including the bar owners, but that doesn't mean we need to cater to the drunks, does it?
Ok..so, you are advocating that only a select elite group of people should be able to vote - one, presumably that meets your standard of political groupthink? The Republicans are well on their way to attempt to make this a one-party system by putting up barriers to voting. It's the only way they can win.
I never said that. What I did say is that we need to keep the election system the way it is, or better yet, the way it was years ago. One day voting, everybody shows up that day. Everybody who is very interested in elections gets to vote no matter which party they support, and we would end up with a much better mix of representatives instead of electing a show clown with dementia. The people who don't understand what they are even voting on will not take the effort or time to vote which would be fantastic. If those people are Democrats, fine. If they are Republicans, that's fine too. But how can you tell me that it's better to have a lower form of electorate than a higher knowledgeable electorate? Please explain that one.
Now if you are at least partly honest, you'd admit that this is the reason Democrats want to make it so easy to vote; to get a lower quality electorate voting so they vote for them.
You've only confirmed that the goal is to make it harder for people who tend to vote Democrat, to vote. You call them idiots.
Are they any more idiotic then the "white trash, bible thumping, rednecks" (to use the common slurs directed at them) who voted for Trump? Should their vote be limited because they are idiots? Or is the vote only for those idiots willing to run an electoral obstacle course in order to vote? (not always easy for people who have multiple jobs and a family to care for).
How would it be an obstacle course to vote? We've been doing it that way since the founding of our country. Never a problem until Democrats realized who the stupid and uninformed mostly vote for. If those bible thumping rednecks don't know or care much about politics, they won't show up either, now will they?
It's like if somebody stopped over my house and had a DVD movie with them. I don't care much for movies, but as long as it's there, I'll watch it. Now if somebody asked me if I want to get dressed up, get my coat on, and freeze halfway to the theater, forget about it. I don't care all that much for movies or plays so it's simply not worth the time or effort on my part. I'd sooner stay home.