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SpokenTruth said:

Mr_Destiny said:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/supreme-court-voting-rights-alabama-texas-wisconsin-florida.html

Alabama was going to have drive-through voting, but the courts say it can't. Florida's poll tax was struck down by a lower court, but on appeal it was upheld--even though the state literally cannot determine how much people owe. In Texas, seniors (the most conservative voting bloc) can vote absentee without an excuse, but not younger people--the courts say nobody is treated unequally, so it can stand. And in Wisconsin, the state court ruled that a statewide law restricting early voting (even in localities that had tried expanding it) for the express purpose of suppressing Democratic votes, is permissable. Because political question doctrine, or something.

I'll never understand how the nation that sings the praises of democracy so loudly shits on voting so hard.

I think it's because most people don't understand at all what democracy really entails.