You assert (and the author of the article you cite) assert it. I deny it. You claimed its uncontested, I point out that it is. Your assertions that it is true don't make it true, and your assertion that it was uncontested was a false assertion.
That being said I am thinking one of the best solutions to the selective voter purges is to make day-of-election voter registration legal in all states, with a clear criteria of what documentation will be required to establish eligibility.
Day of election registration may be a defense against voter purges, but it could make voter fraudulent voting harder to reduce or eliminate, and it could be logistically difficult. Documentation to establish eligibility might help, but serious requirements tend to be opposed by Democrats, and sometimes struck down by courts. Similarly rules requiring IDs to vote have been opposed and sometimes struck down.
And to throw some of the crooked bastards in jail that are responsible for selective voter purges.
First you have to establish that such selective voter purges took place. And not just a purge of the roles that purged more people on one side than the other, but a purge that purged a lot of properly eligible voters from one side, and none, or at least much fewer on the other. Purging ineligible voters isn't a crime, and its likely that a larger percentage of ineligible voters who are on the roles lean to the Democratic side. Because of that fact Republicans will try to be stricter and Democrats looser when controlling the voter roles. Neither action is necessarily committing a crime, or even doing anything wrong. Any system is going to disallow some legitimate voters and allow some illegitimate ones. The Democrats are willing to allow more illegitimate voters to avoid purging legitimate voters, the Republicans are willing to purge more legitimate voters in order to reduce the number of illegitimate votes. To an extent both sides might even be acting according to their principles but its obvious that each does support the action that favors them the most.
When either party deliberately purges voters known to be legitimate voters, or when either party allows voters known to be illegitimate they are committing a crime, and harming the system, but most of the disputes aren't about such crimes but about how strict and tough the purges should be. |
