Under the current law, any attempt to deny people reasonable access to voting is against the law.
You argue that Republicans are selectively enforcing laws (kind of like Biden on immigration, but that is off topic). But in general, it is the Republicans that have led the charge in filing lawsuits against the failure of states to enforce existing election laws.
Recently Democrats did file a lawsuit against the state of Texas not over enforcing election laws, but over new election laws.
This kind of "noise" is common and I suspect much of the "noise" is Democrats preparing their supporters for the massive losses they are expected to suffer this November. The fact that Biden's approval numbers are down to 33% will not have anything to do with what happens this November.
Some facts...
Now let's try to move to a more realistic measure of where voter suppression might be occurring. Let's try facts...
The percentage of African American voters that vote especially in southern states is very high. North Carolina, Mississippi, and Kentucky were among five states with the highest Black voter turnout in 2016 (I used 2016 and 2018 since this study was easy to find). In 2018, Georgia made the top 5.
Among the worse five were no southern states, but Washington, Vermont and Hawaii made the list. Pretty clear, the problem is liberal states, yet the progressives keep pointing to southern states. I guess they don't want their dirty laundry being aired.
Regarding African American turnout, South Carolina, Missouri, Georgia, Texas, Virginia, and Maryland all had higher African American turnout than New York. Are New York progressives racist?
Moving beyond race, among the states with the highest voter turnout in 2020 were North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Montana, Washington, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Not making the list, was a single progressive New England state, Illinois, or California. Minority voting turnout is the big driver in overall voter turnout, and again progressive states come out looking bad. Go figure.
Perhaps a better way to look at voter access is to look at elections where African Americans were interested in the outcome. Many experts use the elections of 2008 and 2012 to do this due to Obama's being on the ticket.
In both 2008 and 2012 African American women had much higher turnout rates than white women or men of both races. Second were white women, who turned out in greater numbers than men of both races.
Instead of racially based voter suppression, the laws do suggest some gender based voter suppression. The voter turnout rates suggests the people who are in the workforce have less time to make to the polls. And so the difference in turnout reflects that. Perhaps we need to make Election day a national holiday. If we really want our government to reflect the people, we need to increase voter turnout among men of all races.
While women outnumber men by less than 2%, they outvote men by 11.4 million votes. Somehow the system is failing men.
So, if you are really a crusader for equal voting access figure out how to make access to the polls easier for men everywhere including in rich and suburban communities as well as poor ones. Or does your indignation only extend to perceived racial voting inequity and not obvious gender voting inequity against men.
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