As a country, we've passed constitutional amendments expanding the franchise and a Voting Rights Act to protect it. /1
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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
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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