Poll shows people aren't buying Democrats' voter-suppression narrative
By: Zachary Faria (MSN)
You bet they aren't. Too bad
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Democrats have spent years now fearmongering about voter suppression. People aren't buying it.
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According to a Morning Consult poll, 44% of adults believe that current voting laws "are not strict enough to prevent votes from being case illegally." Only 33% think that current voting laws "make it too difficult for eligible citizens to vote." Independent voters believe, 35%-29%, that it is too easy to vote rather than too difficult. Hispanics are evenly split on the question, and 30% of black voters believe that voting laws are too permissive.
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Obviously, that leaves 23% of respondents undecided. But Democrats are failing to nudge them in their direction in spite of a full-throated embrace of the narrative about voter suppression and a huge assist from the media. That indicates that their hysteria is accomplishing little.
The hysteria has been especially prominent going back to when Stacey Abrams lost the 2018 race for governor in Georgia. Abrams and other Democrats insisted up and down that the election was stolen from her, based in large part on their narrative of voter suppression. They claim that benign, commonsense policies as requiring photo ID to vote and purging voter rolls of inactive voters and dead people are examples of voter suppression.
That has carried into this year, as Texas Democrats made a grand show of fleeing the state to try and block Republicans from passing a "voter suppression" bill. The dastardly tactics Republicans wanted to implement? Eliminating drive-thru voting and 24-hour early voting, two measures that were only put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic. Democrats pressured Major League Baseball into moving All-Star Weekend out of Atlanta over a similar law in Georgia.
Democrats have spent years frantically warning about voter suppression whenever they lose elections or legislative fights over voting bills. In fact, scaring people about voter suppression is part of their strategy for getting out the vote.
But for all their trouble, more people still think that it is too easy to vote rather than too difficult. It's a promising sign that should encourage Republicans looking to pass more election security bills, such as those of Texas and Georgia, to block out the hysteria.
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But, But, But................ID!!!!!
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The excuses they use to justify these laws being racist are hilarious.
We know that gop state governors are doing their damndest to make sure only the 'right' people are able to vote easily. They are racist 'laws'
And yet you can't explain how they are 'racist'.
Once again you are willfully ignorant.
It's never been easier to vote....or cheat
You are 100% correct, they ONLY want the legal, registered voters to vote. That should be the goal of every American!
Not true other than those red states passing more and more voter suppression bills so people of a certain color and certain income levels aren't able to vote easily.
Republican politicians , who have absolutely no evidence that too much access to voting has caused voter fraud , have cut back on that access in key swing states.
Illinois hasnt taken steps to restrict voting. Georgia has, Florida has, Texas has, why? Because the Republican politicians there know that if more people vote they will lose.
I'm still waiting for someone to tell me the reason for restricting voting hours and access. Although I know the real reason - they want to have less minorities vote.
When all you poll are anti vax/anti mask magats, of course you get this result. Voter suppression is a fact and it is all on the republicons.