You aren't wrong, but elections are run by local officials in local polling places. If red counties block democrat women, and blue counties block republican women, the results probably cancel out. Either way, this sort of shenanigans is why myself and lady t are both registered as republicans. Despite our loathing and disgust at everything they currently stand for.
You're not wrong, and I appreciate the clear-eyed view from outside the fishbowl.
The asymmetry you're describing is real—it's the same pattern we see everywhere. Red states close polling places, blue states don't. Red officials weaponize rules, blue officials apply them fairly even when it hurts "their" voters. One side honors the treaty while the other uses it as a cudgel.
But I still think the piece does useful work:
Even with selective enforcement, some Republican women will get caught—the ones the poll workers don't personally know, the ones who just moved, the ones in the "wrong" part of the county. The leopard isn't perfectly selective.
The information asymmetry point stands regardless of enforcement. Conservative women aren't being warned by their own media ecosystem. That's true even if red poll workers let some of them slide.
And practically: the advice is universal. Check your documents. Get your passport. Build your paper trail. That's useful whether you're being targeted or just caught in bureaucratic crossfire.
You're right that the results won't perfectly balance out. But the alternative is giving up and waiting for the billionaires to finish building the camps. I'd rather light small candles and hope a few of them catch.
Good information. We are a go for voting!
They can try, but they won’t stop us. Not without breaking the whole system from top to bottom. And we see them coming.
That scenario assumes that the polling places will apply those laws equally
Which in the USA is a very unlikely assumption
Just as the literacy requirements were used to prevent black people from voting while NOT stopping much less literate whites from voting
That law will be used to prevent “liberals” from voting while being ignored when the subject is a conservative woman
You aren't wrong, but elections are run by local officials in local polling places. If red counties block democrat women, and blue counties block republican women, the results probably cancel out. Either way, this sort of shenanigans is why myself and lady t are both registered as republicans. Despite our loathing and disgust at everything they currently stand for.
Looking from the outside (NZ) it looks to me that
while red counties WILL block democrat women if given half a chance,
blue counties WILL NOT block republican women even when given the option
Just as Red States have closed offices and polling stations to prevent democrats from voting while Blue states have NOT
So the results will not balance out
You're not wrong, and I appreciate the clear-eyed view from outside the fishbowl.
The asymmetry you're describing is real—it's the same pattern we see everywhere. Red states close polling places, blue states don't. Red officials weaponize rules, blue officials apply them fairly even when it hurts "their" voters. One side honors the treaty while the other uses it as a cudgel.
But I still think the piece does useful work:
Even with selective enforcement, some Republican women will get caught—the ones the poll workers don't personally know, the ones who just moved, the ones in the "wrong" part of the county. The leopard isn't perfectly selective.
The information asymmetry point stands regardless of enforcement. Conservative women aren't being warned by their own media ecosystem. That's true even if red poll workers let some of them slide.
And practically: the advice is universal. Check your documents. Get your passport. Build your paper trail. That's useful whether you're being targeted or just caught in bureaucratic crossfire.
You're right that the results won't perfectly balance out. But the alternative is giving up and waiting for the billionaires to finish building the camps. I'd rather light small candles and hope a few of them catch.
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