6 pointsby petethomas4 hours ago2 comments

k3104 hours ago
The law is asymmetrical. The ruling power decides whom it applies to and whom it doesn't.
Wilhoit's law: [0]
> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
> There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
[0] https://systemicunlearning.substack.com/p/wilhoits-law-there...
ggm4 hours ago
> The Brennan Center for Justice and other groups estimated in a 2023 report that 9% of U.S. citizens of voting age, or 21.3 million people, do not have proof of their citizenship readily available. Almost half of Americans do not have a U.S. passport.
I would expect this not to have alignment solely to D voters but there does seem to be implicit belief these are mostly D voters. I don't get it, because I would think rust belt R working poor lack a passport or modern photo ID since they are costly intrusions into the state.
If you argued excluded (prison) voters tend D I wouldn't disagree. But lacking ID seems more neutral.
- fakedang2 hours ago
  I have a strong suspicion the majority of those folks are Republican. Matthew Yglesias did a write-up on this some months back, where the data showed that in counties where Democrats aggressively helped people obtain ID documents, those initiatives backfired apparently as seen by lower D-skews in those counties.
  So it actually works in favour of Democrats that for lower level elections, more people aren't registered to vote. While for federal elections, it goes the other way around, what with all the gerrymandering and hindering.