Quote (fender @ Nov 8 2018 12:34am)
but only a fool would assume that's not because both bases had been mobilised, but because there was no voter suppression - because there is PLENTY of evidence for the latter, it was blatant and widespread and specifically targeted against potential democrats. you'd have to be a complete hack to deny that...
What you call suppression, the rest of the world calls maintenance. Maintenance is something Democrats refuse to do because it gets dead people and people who've moved away (a.k.a. Democrat voters) off the voter rolls.
Advertising to your opponent's base to encourage them to stay home and/or demoralize them on election day is not only legal, it's widespread with both parties participating.
Then there's that pesky fact that voter ID does not in fact harm voters.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/15/14909764/study-voter-id-racism