Appreciate your comments. That said, a few points.
It's hard to square some of the provisions with your claim "It just didn't make voting more difficult". For example, the food and water bit. It may incidentally turn out that this provision doesn't happen to suppress votes, but it sure seems to be the intention. (And, no, claims about lim…
Appreciate your comments. That said, a few points.
It's hard to square some of the provisions with your claim "It just didn't make voting more difficult". For example, the food and water bit. It may incidentally turn out that this provision doesn't happen to suppress votes, but it sure seems to be the intention. (And, no, claims about limiting special interest groups, etc., don't fly. If that was the intent, then write it that way.)
My guess is that folks consider the phrase "voter suppression" an umbrella term. Thus, provisions to interfere in local election boards (as you note) or even to completely override (as some legislatures are considering) probably count as voter suppression to many people.
But, anyhow, yes, who counts the votes and what they are permitted to do about them should concern everyone.
I think the Democrats are far too fond of ‘umbrella terms’ (to say nothing of their ‘umbrella approaches’), which is why their messaging consistently fails and they aren’t getting much accomplished. When everything is a crisis, nothing is.
Appreciate your comments. That said, a few points.
It's hard to square some of the provisions with your claim "It just didn't make voting more difficult". For example, the food and water bit. It may incidentally turn out that this provision doesn't happen to suppress votes, but it sure seems to be the intention. (And, no, claims about limiting special interest groups, etc., don't fly. If that was the intent, then write it that way.)
My guess is that folks consider the phrase "voter suppression" an umbrella term. Thus, provisions to interfere in local election boards (as you note) or even to completely override (as some legislatures are considering) probably count as voter suppression to many people.
But, anyhow, yes, who counts the votes and what they are permitted to do about them should concern everyone.
I think the Democrats are far too fond of ‘umbrella terms’ (to say nothing of their ‘umbrella approaches’), which is why their messaging consistently fails and they aren’t getting much accomplished. When everything is a crisis, nothing is.