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We Should Never Have to Vote in Person Again
- tehjoker 6y agoSigh, though I think this article is correct, this is one of those fantasies that assumes the reason we don't have mail-in-ballots is because our legislators have never realized that making voting easier and more accessible and simply needs a little informational push, preferably with graphs. Of course mail-in raises participation in a country without election-day holidays. It's blindingly obvious. The reason we don't have mail-in is because both parties wish to depress turnout. US elections are nearly unique in the democratic world for how bad they are, while at the same time, the power of the US state both domestically and abroad is nearly unmatched. They aren't going to let the little people fuck with the great game, so they just give us a pretend democracy and manipulate voter access and eligibility in such a way that reliable tribunes of American business get in there and people, particularly people of color, are deprived of the war-economy destabilizing right to vote.
- holler 6y ago> particularly people of color, are deprived of the war-economy destabilizing right to vote. how is anyone deprived the right to vote in 2020?
- aiscapehumanity 6y agohttps://www.aclu.org/facts-about-voter-suppression https://www.aclu.org/facts-about-voter-suppression Best source I could find off the top. Looks like it's a combo of small changes that result in bureaucratic obfuscation of the process which is not so abruptly suppression, but likely to negatively influence some voter turnout.
- tehjoker 6y agoDon't forget incarcerated persons.