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SETH HALPERN's avatar

There isn't much evidence that "voter suppression" as currently practiced actually affects turnout. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2019/2/21/18230009/voter-id-laws-fraud-turnout-study-research. Maybe Elias hasn't Googled the issue.

Personally I have mixed feelings about that question, since I suspect that the enormous rural margins Glenn Youngkin rolled up in Virginia correlated with that state having just made it easier to vote. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/us/politics/virginia-voting-rights-northam.amp.html

https://www.npr.org/local/305/2021/10/28/1049983171/after-historic-voting-reforms-virginians-have-unprecedented-access-to-the-polls

Which may be a reminder to be careful what you wish for.

As for Cheney and Kinzinger, they are of course fair game for criticism like any other politicians. If Elias is on a one man crusade to purge them from The Resistance, that's obviously his prerogative. However, it's also worth quoting De Gaulle in this context: "No policy is worth anything outside of reality."

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