A federal judge has agreed with voting rights groups and Democrats that the Constitution gives the power to regulate federal elections to states and Congress — not the president.
Can we just stop pretending that this is even remotely an issue. The Right wants us all to debate this topic and keep it constantly in the news not because they actually think it’s an issue either, but because it’s yet another law they can in bad faith exploit to divide, confuse, and disenfranchise people.
We already have laws for this, and they work. End of story.
The only reason people debate whether or not this is an issue is because bad faith actors get conservative media to tell people that this fake problem is real.
The data has never supported their argument, and when you point that out, they fall back to their old counter arguments of a) a couple random cases out of millions, and b) “there must be corruption, because I live in an echo chamber, I only know people who vote like me, and I can’t imagine that my views are not shared by the broader population.”
Can we just stop pretending that this is even remotely an issue. The Right wants us all to debate this topic and keep it constantly in the news not because they actually think it’s an issue either, but because it’s yet another law they can in bad faith exploit to divide, confuse, and disenfranchise people.
We already have laws for this, and they work. End of story.
The only reason people debate whether or not this is an issue is because bad faith actors get conservative media to tell people that this fake problem is real.
The data has never supported their argument, and when you point that out, they fall back to their old counter arguments of a) a couple random cases out of millions, and b) “there must be corruption, because I live in an echo chamber, I only know people who vote like me, and I can’t imagine that my views are not shared by the broader population.”