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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (1379836)11/14/2022 3:38:44 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1579962
 
Inode,
If it were up to me, I'd enact a law that says "It shall be illegal if, in the course of an election, any existing statute is interpreted in a way that provides an unfair advantage or disadvantage to any political party."
This is exactly my point. You can't define what "fair" is.

Voter ID is "unfair" because supposedly Democrats, especially poor minorities, are bad at obtaining them.

Voting by mail is "unfair" because Asian-Americans prefer it, and of course, Asians vote Democrat 70% of the time.

Time after time, "fairness" has been defined as whether one group benefits over another. But that's wrong, because there will ALWAYS be winners and losers when it comes to laws and statutes.

A better standard is to get as many people voting as possible, and to lower the barriers to vote such as long waiting lines or overly inconvenient polling places.

But you could then argue that this would favor people who don't take their civic duty to vote seriously. Why should the state have to bend over backwards just because people choose other priorities other than voting?

I mean, that's essentially what you believe in because you disagreed with my argument that voting is a civic duty of every citizen, no?

Tenchusatsu
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