Shawn mentioned voting rights: Pretty much every voter on the right wants fair elections. Many think this means stopping nonexistent mass fraud, but not all.
Among those who think mass fraud exists, some doubtless find the belief convenient for identitarian reasons (their gut feeling really is that too many of…
Shawn mentioned voting rights: Pretty much every voter on the right wants fair elections. Many think this means stopping nonexistent mass fraud, but not all.
Among those who think mass fraud exists, some doubtless find the belief convenient for identitarian reasons (their gut feeling really is that too many of the "wrong kind" of citizens voting couldn't possibly be fair, even if it's legal). Others may just trust the wrong sources. Beliefs can range from something even many Democratic voters could agree to, if it were done right, like making voter ID easily accessible and using it (Democratic activists worry this will disenfranchise the marginalized more than Democratic voters do), to full-on whackadoo.
Those on the right who don't believe mass voter fraud exist may believe this as strongly as Democrats do, but because it's not a characteristically "right wing" belief these days, they don't seem like "sincere right-wingers" on this.
Regarding LGBTQ matters, authoritarian moralizing makes non-reactionary libertarians, whether they are personally religious or not, nervous. Cathy Young is an example.
If you're asking me a rhetorical question, you're asking the wrong person: I don't object to mail-in voting.
But, since you're asking someone who's also been a pollworker, and seen how my state and county run things, there is a *lot* of hysteresis (lag and path-dependence) in our voting systems: a fair amount of "foot dragging" may be due to the malice of Republican state legislators, but by no means all of it.
As Shawn says, it depends.
Shawn mentioned voting rights: Pretty much every voter on the right wants fair elections. Many think this means stopping nonexistent mass fraud, but not all.
Among those who think mass fraud exists, some doubtless find the belief convenient for identitarian reasons (their gut feeling really is that too many of the "wrong kind" of citizens voting couldn't possibly be fair, even if it's legal). Others may just trust the wrong sources. Beliefs can range from something even many Democratic voters could agree to, if it were done right, like making voter ID easily accessible and using it (Democratic activists worry this will disenfranchise the marginalized more than Democratic voters do), to full-on whackadoo.
Those on the right who don't believe mass voter fraud exist may believe this as strongly as Democrats do, but because it's not a characteristically "right wing" belief these days, they don't seem like "sincere right-wingers" on this.
Regarding LGBTQ matters, authoritarian moralizing makes non-reactionary libertarians, whether they are personally religious or not, nervous. Cathy Young is an example.
Both UT and WA have universal mail-in and no fraud. Why isn't that the new standard for states?
If you're asking me a rhetorical question, you're asking the wrong person: I don't object to mail-in voting.
But, since you're asking someone who's also been a pollworker, and seen how my state and county run things, there is a *lot* of hysteresis (lag and path-dependence) in our voting systems: a fair amount of "foot dragging" may be due to the malice of Republican state legislators, but by no means all of it.