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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Republicans do not suppress votes because it benefits them, they suppress votes because they are a right-wing party and right-wing parties suppress the vote.
At least according to a study that I read sometime ago about why right wing parties change election laws. It found that if you assume that they do it out of self-interest, you get a lot of places where they lost votes because of the changes. If you assume they do it out of ideology, everything fits much better. In the USA (theoretically) voter suppression favours them but that does not change the fact that, when considering many countries rather than just the USA in too many cases it doesn't.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanAP News:
Trump threatens to fire Fauci in rift with disease expert
Texas Tribune
: Texas Supreme Court rejects Republican-led effort to throw out nearly 127,000 Harris County votes
The all-Republican court denied the request by conservative Republican activists (including one state legislator) to throw out drive-thru ballots from Harris County. This would invalidate over 10% of in-person early ballots cast in this largely blue county.
While the Texas Supreme Court rejected the measure, a similar lawsuit is pending in federal court, with a hearing set for Monday morning in a Houston-based district court.
Or they think that some people's votes should matter more than others, but since they can't apply a 3/5ths compromise to non-white-male votes, they have to round down to 0 vote for the "lesser" demographics. The Republican challenger for MA Senator Markey's seat even says in his ads that convicted felons don't deserve the same vote as law-abiding citizens, for a demographic they can openly talk about disenfranchising.
They want the 0, not the 3/5 compromise. Weird as it is, the 3/5 compromise was actually meant to disempower slave owners.
One key function of the Electoral College was that slaves don't get votes but are counted as population for the purpose of determining a state's number of electors. Effectively, slave owners voted on behalf of their victims.
Counting slaves as only 3/5 of a person was a means of reducing a slave owner's ill-begotten electoral power and keeping slave states from entirely overrunning the union.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I figured he was keeping Fauci around just because firing him would make the Trump campaign a bigger flaming dumpster fire than it already is, so to admit it's going to happen the day before election day is... baffling. And scary, too, but mainly baffling.
🏳️⚧️she/her | Vio Rhyse AlberiaAmerica is usually pretty safe during elections. This one is completely unknown territory though. It's the first time to my knowledge that a candidate more or less subtly encourages his partisans to be so violent. Plus with the police blatantly taking their side, who knows what is actually going to happen on election day.

I am more explaining why it is actualy a very bad idea and we need to look elsewhere if we actualy want to encourage people to engage with democracy.