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One of the major political parties in the US has been repeatedly engaging in voter suppression. Is it partisan to observe repeated behavior on one side of the
by MereInterest 7y ago
One of the major political parties in the US has been repeatedly engaging in voter suppression. Is it partisan to observe repeated behavior on one side of the political spectrum, and to extrapolate accordingly?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Unite...
- judge2020 7y agoSpecifying "democrat" in this particular example of how an adversary having a .gov domain could be bad adds nothing to the example.
- soperj 7y agoFrom an outsiders perspective, there's very little difference between both your political parties.
- bsder 7y agoThen you haven't been paying attention very much. One party appears to be on the Russian payroll, the other isn't. And while you may not wish to pay attention to US or UK party politics, you might want to check which parties from your government might be on the Russian payroll.
- bcrosby95 7y agoOne party asked for voter data by race, then got rid of voting methods disproportionately used by black people. The same party also passed voter ID laws, and allowed NRA membership cards but not college ID cards. Your comment amounts to "I'm ignorant, but to me both parties are the same".
- soperj 7y agoAnd the other party is guilty of nothing?
- dependenttypes 7y agoI don't know about NRA membership cards but I know for a fact that college ID cards tend to be quite easily to forge. Regardless, it seems very weird to me that they would accept non-government issued IDs for elections.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 7y agoFor the rest of the world, voting without proper documents screams voting fraud. It's not that black and white.