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Most democratic countries don't seem to have a right wing that's been doing its best to undermine the integrity of elections in a way that works in their favor.
by antonvs 5y ago
Most democratic countries don't seem to have a right wing that's been doing its best to undermine the integrity of elections in a way that works in their favor.
The countries where you see that kind of behavior tend to be the ones that have ended up with dictators or quasi-dictators. There's been plenty of serious discussion recently about the risk the US faces of ending up on that road.
Whatever the arguments might have been for this 5 or 10 years ago, now seems like a really bad time to make a change like this. And again, what is the positive case for making the change? What problem is being solved? There already is a voter identification requirement at registration time, and a mechanism for detecting fraudulent votes.
- KennyBlanken 5y agoThat party has, in internal presentations leaked to the public, stated to their own leadership (paraphrasing) "we are not popular, our platform is not popular. We cannot win elections unless we stop as many people from voting as possible, because our people ALWAYS vote."