Vote suppression efforts can be turned on the perpetrators if they are exposed to sunlight
A righteously angry marginal voters can quickly become a likely and then an actual voter. Photo: Mindy Schauer/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images Evidence continues to mount that the Republican Party is planning to hold onto its power in Washington this November despite, not because, of popular support. Some of its assets will include structural factors like the Election College, gerrymandering, and the anti-democratic character of the United States Senate.
But in commenting on this sadly partisan landscape of conflict over voting rights, Paul Waldman makes a very important point about how best to fight back: [Democrats] have their own legal teams mounting challenges to voter suppression laws, and groups organizing voters, and with the pandemic going on they’re pushing for more vote-by-mail. On Election Day, they’ll also be sending their own teams out to polling locations, to help push back on Republican challenges and help people assert their right to vote.
As Waldman points out, the recent primary in Wisconsin was a case in point: Republican legislators and conservative judges in both Madison and Washington insisted on curtailing voting by mail and going ahead with voting in person in the middle of a pandemic. The not-so-veiled idea is that a smaller and whiter electorate would protect a precious conservative position at stake on the very Wisconsin Supreme Court that helped hold down turnout.
Totally aside from the fact that young and minority voters will resent efforts to keep them from participating in elections for which they are eligible, there’s a dirty little secret about voter suppression. A lot of Americans who aren’t young or black or brown or progressive fundamentally believe everyone should have the right to vote.
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