Voter Suppression and Voter Fraud.
Are they real?
This is a joke! Don’t take it seriously.
People on the left are convinced that the right is trying to suppress the votes of the poor and less educated. People on the right are convinced that the left is organizing voter fraud on a massive scale by encouraging multiple voting and non-citizen voting. I’m pretty sure both sides are wrong and this is just electioneering to motivate the various parties bases.
It has never been easier to vote in America. It is easier than getting a drivers license, a smart phone or a debit card. It shows an extreme lack of faith in your core voters if you think that they can’t get organized to get registered and then to vote.
On the other hand there is very little evidence that there is much voter fraud. It is just too difficult to organize for so few votes.
What we can predict is that if the elections are close the left will blame their loss on voter suppression and if the right loses a close one they will blame their loss on voter fraud. It is the way of our people.
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Hi Simon
I definitely agree with your 3rd and 4th paragraphs
And when it comes to paragraph 2 I agree with most of that too– but certainly not all of it. I understand why your experience seems to point out how easy it is to vote since you have done most (maybe all) of your voting in AZ and CA. There probably is no voter suppression here. My experience in Minnesota and AZ is similar.
Yesterday I led a tour at MIM of 10 Native Americans who live on the Pima reservation. I asked them how easy it is for them to vote and they told me about how polls are set up on the reservation and how its not only easy but they tribal members are encouraged to vote. I was so glad to hear that.
Then I asked them why the narrative about the tribes of ND were so different.
It was clear that the situation in ND was much different and the government there was making it much more difficult to get registered and to vote. It was also clear to me that the requirements (must have a street address and a P.O. Box was not acceptable) made it very difficult (if not impossible) to register. So that being the case how can homeless men and women vote?
Then there is the issue about the polling place of Dodge City KS being moved out of town.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-nixes-effort-open-new-polling-site-dodge-city-kansas-n930171
It may be difficult to organize voter fraud (I agree with you there) but when someone who holds the power of elected office, its not that difficult to make it a real challenge for 13,000 people in Dodge City to vote and that is a lot of votes.
I will leave it to you to research the evidence about Georgia yourself– I think you will be surprised what you learn
Legal and unfair Geremandering is done regularly, on both sides, depending on who is in power to exert the greatest control.. Unfortunately voter suppression becomes possible if you are in power to change the registration rules of your state