The country's never really been the same since we've allowed all eligible citizens to vote. Some want to go back to the bad old days.https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/794912434246909952 …
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But when it gets down to it, they are usually motivated by a desire to depress Democratic/minority turnout and gain political advantage. /7
As to the one-way ratchet argument "why can Democrats expand voting rights but Republicans cannot contract them?", /8
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the answer depends on view of the franchise. If voting is about allocating power among political equals, then courts should not allow /9
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states to make it harder for eligible voters to register and vote unless there's a real, not pretextual, reason for doing so. /10
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But not all buy that we are truly political equals. And say if voters are "lazy" or don't care, voting should be tough to weed out "/11
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"low information voters." Early voting is bad, on this theory, because people can't be trusted to know if they have enough info to vote /12
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I'm firmly in the voting about sharing equal political power camp, so I find unnecessary voting restrictions against current US ideals /13
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and I hope a new Supreme Court, through the Constitution and Voting Rights Act interpretation, sees it that way too. /14
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People risked their lives to gain right to vote,but we need court protection until all agree to the right in practice not just in theory/end
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Remember, there are Republicans who want to get rid of direct election of Senators and return to state legislatures picking them.
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