Quote (fender @ Apr 7 2021 08:45am)
how many voters living in a district with waiting lines (predominantly low income, minority, urban), that actually are dedicated enough to wait in a line for hours to vote, do you think have been "bribed" to change their vote for a glass of water, in the history of american elections? could you make a rough estimate? a single one? dozens? hundreds? even more?
do you genuinely not see how that is NOT legislation addressing a real and concerning issue, but a blatant attempt to just further inconvenience and dissuade voters, like closing polling stations to create those lines in the first place, like limiting voting times and ballot boxes? it's such an obvious and egregious voter disenfranchisement operation that you'd have to be positively mentally challenged not to realise what's going on there.
it will never cease to amaze me how some people will happily insult their own intelligence like that trying to 'justify' republican voter suppression, lol...
There was a time when people died for democracy. People are still sacrificing their lives, getting attacked, and so on today in places like Myanmar because they want fairness.
We've become extremely lazy about our freedoms and regularly take them for granted.
A person can't be bothered to bring a bottle of water that costs pennies? Instead, Team (insert whatever party) walks around with their political pins handing out these gifts which in a very obvious way sways the person's perception.
A person can't be bothered to get a picture ID when literally most countries in the world require some sort of picture ID? Germany requires proof of identity. Some of the poorest countries in Africa and South America require a picture ID.
Why is the argument here that these laws are racist while in those countries it's totally acceptable when they are magnitudes poorer than us.
It's almost as if this is a manufactured problem and the whole point of it is to sway votes to a political party and you simps peddle it because it's your choice pony.