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I think the issue is that Democrats did not want to push it farther because they didn't want Republicans to turn around and use it against them.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/590947-house-has-the-p...

They're likely plenty of republican hobby horse issues where they would start subpoenaing other members of Congress once they had power.

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This line of thinking is what lets Republicans do whatever they please and get away with it.

Happens when one side is following the rules, and the other side isn't.

Democrats have to be squeaky clean. Republican can stage coup's.

Republicans are insane, Democrats are cowards, neither lead.

This is what you get when you try to get everyone to vote. Your vote counts! But when too many people who have no idea what's going on vote, the game of who gets elected becomes "who can take advantage of the ignorant masses best?". Which is why we got a reality TV personality as a president and zero pressure by the electorate to get the Democrats to get anything done.

Of course they are cowards. Republicans have far more guns, have anger issues, and are willing to use them. I'm guessing what you are advocating is for Democrats to do more? To become more radical? But look at the rest of the posts in this thread, at how many people are calling liberals fascist. What would happen if they actually tried to do something?

Maybe we could have some kind of tax you must pay before going to the polls, only allowing land owners to vote, limit the number of polling places in the wrong neighborhoods, make it a crime to vote without state issued ID but make sure the state issued ID is inconvenient to get in the wrong neighborhoods.

That will really make sure only the right people vote and they only elect the right people.

Nearly every country in the world that has elections requires some kind of identification to vote, I don’t see any reason to object to this besides it being somebody else’s desire.

Don’t be absurd, I’m not advocating for a poll tax or keeping any specific kind of person from voting… except those who know nothing about or would otherwise be uninterested in politics.

Votes are being sought through the same spammy clickbait fear methods that grabs so much attention these days. Such methods to win elections corrupt the political process so the only way to win is to grab the most attention through fear, fake conflict that becomes real, and other sorts of degrading manipulation.

The kind of shit I’m getting constantly from both parties in my inbox is disgusting and directly responsible for the awful state of national politics. Either I’m supposed to step up to battle the evil opponents or I’m supposed to be afraid of what they’ll do if they win (so give now! 5x matching only going on for a limited time.

Everybody who wants to should be able to vote.

I would not object to voting IDs if they were free and easy to acquire. They are not. The fraud they allege to prevent is low double digit numbers when summed up over decades of voting. If you don't see that ID laws are being intentionally used to prevent votes from people who want to vote, you are willfully blind.

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