{"id":301065,"date":"2021-07-16T01:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T22:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-fight-for-voter-rights-is-nothing-like-the-civil-war\/"},"modified":"2021-07-16T01:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T22:22:41","slug":"the-fight-for-voter-rights-is-nothing-like-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-fight-for-voter-rights-is-nothing-like-the-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"#The \u2018fight\u2019 for voter rights is nothing like the Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The \u2018fight\u2019 for voter rights is nothing like the Civil War<\/strong>”
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If this is Joe Biden when he\u2019s forceful and passionate, the country is better off with the passive and detached version.<\/p>\n

The president gave a thunderous address in Philadelphia on Tuesday denouncing alleged Republican voter suppression. Playing on the darkest fears of Democrats and layering on the adjectival overkill, Biden blatantly distorted Republican state-level election laws in a frankly demagogic speech.<\/p>\n

Biden rightly excoriated former President Donald Trump, if not by name, for his conduct since the election. But he also lashed the Republican election bills. The app<\/a>roach seems designed to mirror Trump\u2019s effort to undermine his side\u2019s faith in the electoral process with a countervailing effort to undermine Biden\u2019s own side\u2019s faith in the electoral process.<\/p>\n

Indeed, if Democrats lose in 2022 or 2024, Biden\u2019s speech may be seen by Democrats as providing an equally corrosive excuse: It was Republican voter suppression<\/em>.<\/p>\n

According to Biden, the GOP election rules are one of the most grievous affronts to our democratic rights ever. \u201cThe 21st-century Jim Crow assault is real,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s unrelenting, and we\u2019re going to challenge it vigorously.\u201d<\/p>\n

He called this push \u201cthe most serious test of our democracy since the Civil War,\u201d making sure to note that the statement wasn\u2019t hyperbole, even though it\u2019s hard to imagine a more hyperbolic assertion. <\/p>\n

Half the country left the union during the Civil War, threatened Washington with periodic armed raids and fought for its independence in a war that killed more than 600,000 people, which obviously doesn\u2019t bear comparison to, say, passing voter-ID laws.<\/p>\n

At one point, Biden referred to \u201cGeorgia\u2019s vicious anti-voting law.\u201d Yet the law was fully debated and refined in the legislative process. The result is well-crafted legislation that is not anywhere close to hearkening back to Lester Maddox.<\/p>\n

The law increases the hours available for early voting and preserves ballot-drop boxes, an emergency measure adopted during the pandemic, although it tightens the rules around them. It dispenses with signature match, which voter-rights advocate Stacey Abrams has criticized as unreliable, to verify absentee ballots; instead, it asks that voters provide a driver\u2019s-license or state-ID number.<\/p>\n

Long lines at polling places have been a perennial complaint in Georgia and, it must be said, largely the responsibility of Democratic-run local jurisdictions. Where lines are an endemic problem, the new law mandates that counties either reduce the size of the relevant precincts or add new equipment or workers.<\/p>\n

Provisional ballots are tricky for election administrators to handle, and Abrams has long complained that they aren\u2019t reliably counted. The law seeks to reduce the number of provisional ballots by diminishing a leading reason people vote provisionally, i.e., that they show up at the wrong precinct. Going forward, election workers will direct such voters to the correct precinct.<\/p>\n

In the same spirit, the law says voters can\u2019t request absentee ballots later than 11 days prior to the election \u2014 because many absentee ballots are rejected for arriving too late.<\/p>\n

Even if you oppose every single one of these measures, Georgia will still have a notably open election system, with online registration, extensive early voting and no-excuse absentee voting.<\/p>\n

Biden either doesn\u2019t realize this or doesn\u2019t care \u2014 in other words, he\u2019s either being recklessly irresponsible or deeply cynical (and probably both).<\/p>\n

The presumption that marginal changes in election laws measurably affect turnout, a key assumption of the Democratic case against GOP election bills, is simply erroneous.\u00a0Voter-ID laws haven\u2019t suppressed turnout.<\/p>\n

Biden is unlikely to get the Democratic election bill, HR1, over the finish line. But the charge of voter suppression is a powerful partisan motivator. He made an implicit nod in this direction when he said, \u201cWe\u2019ll engage in an all-out effort to educate voters about the changing laws, register them to vote and then get the vote out.\u201d Never mind that this wouldn\u2019t be possible under a new Jim Crow.<\/p>\n

When it comes to juicing up his own supporters, the Biden speech may have been effective, but it wasn\u2019t statesmanship \u2014 or remotely truthful.<\/p>\n

Twitter<\/a>: @RichLowry<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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