As Trump refuses to say he’ll accept election results, Republicans press to make voting harder
These actions are not the work of a confident, expanding party; they are not signs of a party that sees its coalition growing and its appeal widening. Instead, they are an acknowledgment that, unless something changes, they could face a bleak future, one in which winning elections will depend more on holding down the size of an increasingly diverse electorate than on encouraging the widest possible enfranchisement.
Before 2006, no state required voters to produce identification. The first was enacted in Indiana and later upheld by the Supreme Court. Today, 36 states have voter ID laws, some more strict than others. In 2012, civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against a voter ID law in Pennsylvania.
Here’s a recent example, seemingly small but perhaps not. In Texas, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Oct. 1 ordered that there can be no more than one drop box for mail ballots in each of the state’s 254 counties., though the state has filed an appeal. The state argued that it had expanded options for early voting and therefore Abbott’s order was justified. The judge rejected those arguments, saying the limits on drop boxes hurt older voters and those with disabilities especially hard.
Recently, the city of Madison, Wis., another Democratic stronghold that could tip the balance in one of the country’s most competitive battleground states, decided to hold what was called Democracy in the Parks. The city clerk announced that, on designated Saturdays, people could go to city parks, where they would find poll workers who could answer questions about the process of voting and also would be able to accept absentee ballots.
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