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[–] Seraph@fedia.io 217 points 1 month ago (18 children)

Why not have more severe consequences for voter suppression?

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 180 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Because that would lead to fair elections. And if elections were fair republicans would never win any. So they block any attempt to fix elections.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

Because that would lead to fair elections. And if elections were fair republicans would never win any.

Why would Democrats not simply extend and expand the Voting Rights Act when they have a Congressional majority? Dems had this in 2021 when Biden took office - both branches, plus the White House. They had it back in 2009 as well, when the House had two dozen votes to spare and the Senate enjoyed a 60 vote supermajority.

Why not send down more financial and legal aid, as Howard Dean championed back in 2008 when he was head of the DNC and delivered one of the largest landslide majorities in the party's history? Why not use federal money and manpower to amp up Mississippi state election offices?

Don't Democrats want to win in Mississippi?

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That would require Dems actually doing something for a change.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

That would require Dems actually doing something

You mean trying to do something without the entire republican party stopping them at every single turn including threatening govt shutdowns over it?

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