They wish to further relax requirements for voter identification, same-day registration and voting, and undocumented immigrants voting in local elections.
Voting requirements have also reflected disdain for radical democracy.
Progressives have deliberately confused residency with citizenship, as if a person living in America, paying some sales or income taxes, should have the same voting rights as those who are legal citizens.
All these proposed modifications are aimed at changing the nature of the electorate and the method of voting in order to change results.
In reductionist terms, new rules and new voters reduce the relative voting clout of law-abiding adult citizens.
A cynic might suggest that had Hillary Clinton actually won the 2016 Electoral College vote but lost the popular vote to Trump, progressives would now be praising our long-established system of voting.
If same-day registration and voting meant that millions of new conservatives without voter IDs were suddenly showing their Trump support at the polls, progressives would insist on bringing back old laws that required voters to have previously registered and to show valid identification at voting precincts.
https://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/proposed-voting-changes-are-about-power-not-principles/
Voting requirements have also reflected disdain for radical democracy.
Progressives have deliberately confused residency with citizenship, as if a person living in America, paying some sales or income taxes, should have the same voting rights as those who are legal citizens.
All these proposed modifications are aimed at changing the nature of the electorate and the method of voting in order to change results.
In reductionist terms, new rules and new voters reduce the relative voting clout of law-abiding adult citizens.
A cynic might suggest that had Hillary Clinton actually won the 2016 Electoral College vote but lost the popular vote to Trump, progressives would now be praising our long-established system of voting.
If same-day registration and voting meant that millions of new conservatives without voter IDs were suddenly showing their Trump support at the polls, progressives would insist on bringing back old laws that required voters to have previously registered and to show valid identification at voting precincts.
https://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/proposed-voting-changes-are-about-power-not-principles/
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