No, no, no. The right to vote is a *right*; thus a normative question, not one to be analyzed on its presumed partisan effects (besides, social scientists cannot really predict these effects). Please, let's focus on if the law makes it harder to vote, and who the impact falls on.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1378336504423051270 …
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Subjecting voting rights into analysis more suitable for, dunno, sports betting is not okay. Even if "the evidence" suggests little partisan impact, it should have no bearing on analysis—besides, this is necessarily weak evidence because social science isn't an oracle.
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I'm open to articles arguing, say, the law is misunderstood & does not restrict voting rights and here's why, but not "it does restrict but meh, won't effect outcome because pissed off people will wait in even longer lines etc." That's not non-partisan analysis, it's just wrong.
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Does comparing it to New York’s current laws help?pic.twitter.com/paqcVOx44E
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New York sucks at this, you might have noticed in the last election. The only reason we don't notice it is because it's not as contested. Though the bigger consideration I've seen with Georgia seems to over the right to take over local offices, but haven't read fully.
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Fair enough, just the Georgia is “Jim Crow 2.0” narrative when many states currently have more restrictive voting rules on the books is something I can’t quite wrap my head around.
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US has so many jurisdictions with terrible voting laws/systems that it becomes hard to figure things out, but should definitely distinguish explicit intent and incompetence, too. (There is a mix of both in multiple places),
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