What the Left Calls Voting Rights Cheapens Your Vote

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NPR ran a story just the other day comparing Trump and Harris on “voting rights.” It is a fascinating look at the perverse way in which the left uses this term.

To believe this article, and indeed from much else from the left or from the Harris campaign itself, is to imagine that Trump’s position is one designed entirely to keep some significant number of people from voting, while Harris advocates merely for preventing evil conservatives from robbing some portion of the electorate (non-white, of course) of the sacred right to the franchise.

Of course this is not the story at all.

What the left wants is total federal control over the voting requirements and processes of each state. There is no evidence at all that any state currently discriminates against potential voters on the basis of race. The left nevertheless insists that granting any amount of local autonomy over the voting process means that a given state might be engaged in such discrimination. What they really mean, however, is that some localities may not follow the left’s dictates on voting, which involve eliminating serious efforts to prevent ineligible people from voting and making the voting as simple as mailing a postcard.

The fundamental question that is never addressed is this: Why should voting be as easy as possible?

We consider voting important, do we not? It may even be the most important responsibility of a citizen in a free society. It is certainly a far more important part of citizenship than passing an exam in school, or getting a driver’s license, or obtaining a hunting permit, no?

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What the Left Calls Voting Rights Cheapens Your Vote - Chronicles

The left’s incessant call to make voting easier is really about making it trivial and unimportant.

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NPR ran a story just the other day comparing Trump and Harris on “voting rights.” It is a fascinating look at the perverse way in which the left uses this term.

To believe this article, and indeed from much else from the left or from the Harris campaign itself, is to imagine that Trump’s position is one designed entirely to keep some significant number of people from voting, while Harris advocates merely for preventing evil conservatives from robbing some portion of the electorate (non-white, of course) of the sacred right to the franchise.

Of course this is not the story at all.

What the left wants is total federal control over the voting requirements and processes of each state. There is no evidence at all that any state currently discriminates against potential voters on the basis of race. The left nevertheless insists that granting any amount of local autonomy over the voting process means that a given state might be engaged in such discrimination. What they really mean, however, is that some localities may not follow the left’s dictates on voting, which involve eliminating serious efforts to prevent ineligible people from voting and making the voting as simple as mailing a postcard.

The fundamental question that is never addressed is this: Why should voting be as easy as possible?

We consider voting important, do we not? It may even be the most important responsibility of a citizen in a free society. It is certainly a far more important part of citizenship than passing an exam in school, or getting a driver’s license, or obtaining a hunting permit, no?

Continued below.

What the Left Calls Voting Rights Cheapens Your Vote - Chronicles

The left’s incessant call to make voting easier is really about making it trivial and unimportant.

chroniclesmagazine.org

Stacy Abrams was in an interview recently where she was confronted with her rhetoric about Georgia bill SB202 and how it would suppress votes and how under the provisions of SB202 Georgia has had record early voting totals. She stated, as only an ideologue can, that one can have voter suppression and yet still have record voting. The logic of the left wing ideologue is truly baffling. At times I think it is only sustained by putting ones fingers in your ears and shouting platitudes over any reasonable counterargument.