Voter Surpression
There have been several legislative initiatives to make it harder to vote for students, minority groups, and the elderly by using id requirements more stringent, making it harder to register on election day, and shortening the period for early voting. This is being done in the name of stopping fraud related voting.
A more candid explanation might be to game the voting process to lessen the impact of poorer, vulnerable, and liberal voters.
One of the answers to increasing voter turn out is to make the process more voter friendly. I don't believe voter fraud is that big an issue and to the extent that it is an issue you can find anecdotal stories that involve both democrats and republicans.
Voting rights are fundamental to a functioning democracy and the insiders are messing with the process when it favors one group over another as some of the proposed and newly passed legislation seems to.
This may just be another little piece of the incumbent forever mentality that exists as it is related to gerrymandering and the already skewed relation between money and power in this country.
A more candid explanation might be to game the voting process to lessen the impact of poorer, vulnerable, and liberal voters.
One of the answers to increasing voter turn out is to make the process more voter friendly. I don't believe voter fraud is that big an issue and to the extent that it is an issue you can find anecdotal stories that involve both democrats and republicans.
Voting rights are fundamental to a functioning democracy and the insiders are messing with the process when it favors one group over another as some of the proposed and newly passed legislation seems to.
This may just be another little piece of the incumbent forever mentality that exists as it is related to gerrymandering and the already skewed relation between money and power in this country.
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