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"The whole point of "both sides the same" rhetoric is to discourage people from doing anything political, that's why it never has any actionable suggestions. "

I also believe this is the goal of many of the "both sides" people. Since not voting benefits Republicans[1] I believe those people have an ulterior motive to help them win

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/supreme-court-gop...



Your link is completely different argument to the one being made here about "non-voters"

Non-voters are people disgruntled with the current 2 party system, the largest voting block in that group are libertarian leaning people who do not break democrat.

Your link it talking about various voting laws, which largely impact densely populated cities, things like ballot harvesting, out-of-precinct ballot disqualification, and other such rules that have an outside impact on voters in urban cities which are largely democrat.

Very very different things / topics


"things like ballot harvesting, out-of-precinct ballot disqualification, and other such rules that have an outside impact on voters in urban cities which are largely democrat."

What about local elections, most elections are isolated to a particular area? The reason the Republican lawyer made that statement was to show standing. Meaning , why would the Republican party be effected by the various voter restriction laws. They said because it benefits them if voting rights are restricted.

If you are saying that the laws in question reduce the ability of democrats to vote vs republican (as in reduces the numbers more in cities vs rural?) What's the difference? I'm connecting turnout to their success.

Here's a more clear analysis though it is an opinion piece showing that young voter turnout is important for the democrats.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/22/politics/young-voters-democra...

The reason I used the Republican party's lawyer is because he was under oath and they wouldn't fight this case if it didn't benefit them


> Non-voters are people disgruntled with the current 2 party system, the largest voting block in that group

There are no “voting blocks” in the group of non-voters.


Lol. Poor terminology. I should have said "largest group of eligible/ potential voters"

But still clear what I was getting at




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