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I propose a new title to this post:
What would happen if every barrier to voting was removed vs what would happen if Republicans were allowed to implement all of the voter suppression tactics they can imagine.
Big ol’ asterisk on the 2020 election, though:
- Covid
- Wide action to change voting to get around Covid
- Wide belief among Republicans that Covid wasn’t real
- Ergo, wide movement against changing elections around Covid
For these reasons alone, using any election map like this from 2020 is outside any norm. What about the 2016 or 2012 map? It may look similar, but won’t be nearly as drastic.
For the record, covid was a real disease, but completely overblown. The measures were mostly not helpful, and targeted small businesses.
My father died due to somebody else believing the same, ignoring the guidelines, and spreading Covid to him.
So kindly shut the fuck up, yeah?
My grandpa also died. Stage four lung cancer, but he spent the last year of his life locked up in a nursing home. Funnily enough, he had his first shot, but not the second.
At least 7 million people died as a very conservative estimate. Some estimates go as high as 30 million deaths. It’s the 4th most deadly epidemic/pandemic in the last millennia after the Black Death, Spanish flu, and HIV/AIDS. And that’s with all the lockdowns, social distancing measures and a truly groundbreaking rollout of vaccinations. There’s nothing overblown about that.
How are states with mail in voting counted? We don’t vote at a polling station (and it’s glorious) on Election Day. We typically vote well before hand. They just get counted on Election Day.
As someone who voted blue, part of my motivation to not do it on election day was to avoid being harassed by Trump’s poll
watchersintimidators.I can’t say whether the conclusion you’ve drawn from the maps is right or wrong. But I can say that the analysis is probably incomplete. Because does that pattern hold out in other elections too?
