Comment on Goddammit Texas!
eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 week agothe sound bites you hear about voting are intentionally misleading: you have to show up with an id to vote here too and that’s not where to controversy lies.
the controversy is registering to vote and the conservative states intentionally make registering as heavily bureaucratic as possible in the hopes of minimizing the number of people who cant register to vote.
they’ve also dedicated hundreds of millions on dollars to understand an enact policies to keep the poor and minority groups from voting.
democrats sit back and let republicans openly do it.
Devdogg@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Hold on, I’m in MN and we don’t have to show our ID to vote.
eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
the reason why we have this mess is because the states get to make up whatever rules they want around voting so long as they never officially block you from voting. doing so would force the federal government to step in, so the red & purple states are careful not to poke that bear and instead focus their voter suppression efforts on the aspects of voting that previous court cases had decided that federal government has no say: like registration.
biden won because several purple states managed to make registration & voting easier (eg most of the battleground states) and they’ve all since then repealed that easier access.