As I have made clear I don't support voter suppression, period. No matter who is doing it.
I am not sure if I missed your post but here are some recent articles that point to the Democratic party engaging in voter suppression.
Democrats need to fix their own voter suppression problem
Bernie Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver writes that the New York Democratic Party needs to open its primary to independents to drive turnout.
www.cnn.com
How Democrats Suppress The Vote
In the ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans over election procedures like voter ID and early voting, the Democrats are supposedly the champions of hi…
fivethirtyeight.com
I used fivethirtyeight and CNN since you often cite them as sources.
Make no mistake, Dems engaging in these practices do not justify the vile practice being done by the GOP. And vice versa.
One of your examples is horrible, the other struggle.
-First, the CNN article is written by Bernie's campaign manager. It is not an editorial; it is an opinion piece. He is pissed because different states have different rules for primaries. He is pissed that states like New York have more restrictive voter registration rules than other states (most of the states in the Dem primary are open btw). And specifically, he is pissed New York doesn't have an open primary to allow independents to vote. He is complaining that why won't Dems in places like New York be more like......checks notes.....Dems in other parts of the country. You realize that, right?
The is a massive difference from saying a Democratic primary should be for registered Democrats and trying to make sure eligible voters ballots are rejected in a general election. Different states have different rules on how they run their primary. Making your stat
New York's registration rules are not a targeted effort to suppress votes. No political scientists or voter's right groups classify it as such. It should be changed, but you are making apples to oranges comparison here.
Furthermore, since that primary, when NY Dems got rid of those independents that were blocking their agenda, they have passed policy to expand voter participation, like automatic registration.
In fact, the DNC pushed for many reforms to increase turnout in primaries. Most notably, getting rid of caucuses, which Weaver was against because it hurt Bernie. The entire CNN article is a bad-faith attack against the Dems.
-Second, I must give you kudos for this effort. I am shocked because this comes close to be a cogent argument. However, your only bit of evidence is that Dems from the back of union allow off-year elections that inconvenience voters. This is their only crime of voter suppression? While I agree elections should be consolidated, this is not a coordinated effort to turn a specific number of voters. But I would give you more credit for this if the article was not from 2015. And it analyzed votes from the 2010s. Because in a post Selby v. Holder world, the Dems push for voter rights has included supported consolidation. Including Cali...
So Dems: Want automatic registration, more polling places, info packets sent to voters, more access to mail-in voting, and drop-offs (which increase turnout across the board). Support voting rights activist for access to the ballot. Is against gerrymandering, wants to make election day a federal holiday. And tons of other pro-voter legislation. But in the 2010s, they supported a policy that leads to around 3-5% lower turnout for already low turnout elections. But there is no consensus in the party on this consolidation issue now.
But the GOP wants to suppress the voter, rig the system in their favor for them to get minority rule, the make everyone vote in these more crooked elections, and there is consensus on these efforts.
But again, nice try on this one.
C'mon Delk, besides being a sellout, this both sides nonsense is not gonna fly.
dwalk31
doesn't respond to the GOP's voter suppression with outrage. He instead tries to dismiss it. Clearly it's not that big of an issue to him.
