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There is a certain political party that is harmed by high voter turnout in the USA and is actively engaged in disenfranchising demographics that don't share the

There is a certain political party that is harmed by high voter turnout in the USA and is actively engaged in disenfranchising demographics that don't share their worldviews. They certainly will oppose efforts to make it easier to vote.

djrogers 10y ago
And there is a certain party who has certain captured voting blocks that tend to work shifts and hourly jobs for places that stay open on 'mandatory' holidays. Those people would not be helped by this, or do you think joy those who work 9-5 salaried office jobs deserve special accommodations to vote?
- travmatt 10y ago
  Is this a trick question? I believe that every eligible American citizen should be able to exercise their constitutional right to vote, this is an idea known as franchisement. I don't believe there is such thing as special accommodations when the goal is to make sure every citizen has the ability to exercise such rights.
  - dnautics 10y ago
    no what djrogers says is that the Democrats will never move it to sunday, or make it a holiday, because (rightly) that's terrible for a lot of people who work shift jobs and work in the service industry. You should be careful - your presumptions of fairness betray your own privilege in a way that make hypocrisy of your own political predilection.
    - travmatt 10y ago
      I never endorsed any given plan, I pointed out that any given plan will be resisted by people who find it politically expedient to do so. I'm no political scientist, but Im almost willing to guarantee that if you took a bunch of them and asked them to devise a strategy to help most Americans vote they'd be able to do so. And this strategy would be resisted. Of course any given idea will have its own drawbacks, but that doesn't mean it should just be tossed out wholesale. Can you tell me more about my privilege and why exactly I should be careful? Since you've found a way to infer my life experiences from a paragraph of text, I've never found growing up black and poor in a violent neighborhood to grant me 'privilege' (nor does my current life leave me with that impression), but if you're suggesting I have such options available please enlighten me.

djrogers 10y ago

And there is a certain party who has certain captured voting blocks that tend to work shifts and hourly jobs for places that stay open on 'mandatory' holidays. Those people would not be helped by this, or do you think joy those who work 9-5 salaried office jobs deserve special accommodations to vote?

travmatt 10y ago
Is this a trick question? I believe that every eligible American citizen should be able to exercise their constitutional right to vote, this is an idea known as franchisement. I don't believe there is such thing as special accommodations when the goal is to make sure every citizen has the ability to exercise such rights.
- dnautics 10y ago
  no what djrogers says is that the Democrats will never move it to sunday, or make it a holiday, because (rightly) that's terrible for a lot of people who work shift jobs and work in the service industry. You should be careful - your presumptions of fairness betray your own privilege in a way that make hypocrisy of your own political predilection.
  - travmatt 10y ago
    I never endorsed any given plan, I pointed out that any given plan will be resisted by people who find it politically expedient to do so. I'm no political scientist, but Im almost willing to guarantee that if you took a bunch of them and asked them to devise a strategy to help most Americans vote they'd be able to do so. And this strategy would be resisted. Of course any given idea will have its own drawbacks, but that doesn't mean it should just be tossed out wholesale. Can you tell me more about my privilege and why exactly I should be careful? Since you've found a way to infer my life experiences from a paragraph of text, I've never found growing up black and poor in a violent neighborhood to grant me 'privilege' (nor does my current life leave me with that impression), but if you're suggesting I have such options available please enlighten me.