I think it's semi-legitimate. It's legitimate to have accurate voter lists of course, but aggressively pushing people off is not really legit. Let me explain:

I think it's semi-legitimate. It's legitimate to have accurate voter lists of course, but aggressively pushing people off is not really legit. Let me explain: It so happens that active voter suppression is actively practiced by republicans, because we have their emails from people in state legislatures to researchers asking questions in two key areas: what forms of ID are minority voters not likely to have that 'our' voters do, so that we could block them for registering [0]. And the second thing is picking your voters, which used to be in both parties but today is pretty much also used by one party. Also doing things like cutting early voting and other extended voting which predominantly let people with low-wage jobs have time to vote on weekends. Another cool one, preventing kids from pre-registering, cause those kids are of course not so conservative [1]. Also we have conservative conferences including ALEC talking about how to suppress voters [2]. Today there is no question that republicans use these tactics to actively suppress votes and voter registration for people that are likely to vote against them. It's not in question, it's not just a few bad apples. [0] https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-north-carolina-voter-id-law-20160902-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-north-carolin... [1] https://www.thenation.com/article/north-carolina-wont-stop-suppressing-the-vote/ https://www.thenation.com/article/north-carolina-wont-stop-s... [2] https://www.mediamatters.org/american-legislative-exchange-council/five-times-local-media-exposed-alecs-secretive-agenda https://www.mediamatters.org/american-legislative-exchange-c...