Opinion: Opposing efforts to boost voting turnout is anti-democratic
Voters make their way to voting booths at the Brentwood Library in Tennessee. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 12 at 9:00 AM By definition, you get a more robust democracy and leaders more reflective of the population as a whole when more people vote. Democracy has little meaning if it doesn’t rest on the broadest possible franchise.
Democrats such as Stacey Abrams, whom Kemp defeated, have begun to litigate and try to legislate against voter-suppression measures. However, the fundamental, disturbing point is too infrequently asserted: Republicans want more white people to vote and will undermine democracy to get a smaller, whiter electorate. Republicans, to be blunt, have not only become wedded to racism but also hostile to democracy itself.
The vast majority of states that have automatic registration are blue states or leaning blue . In addition to Georgia, Alaska is the only solidly red state to utilize it.
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