by jmyeet | 2026-02-17 21:15:30+00:00
No. There is a long history of Republican voter disenfranchisement:

- In the 1980s The RNC created the Ballot Security Task Force [1], which was a scheme to strike people off the voter rolls by sending them a mailer if they didn't respond. This led to a consent decree requiring "preclearance" for any voter roll enforcement that lasted 25+ years [2];

- Republicans lead the charge in restricting access to mail-in voting because it's used more by Democratic Party voters [3] despite there being no evidence of fraud;

- In response to Arizona turning blue in 2020, Republicans went on a massive voter suppression spree [4], which disproportionately impacts Native Americans [5];

- Nationally, the push to have a street address unfairly impacts Native Americans who often don't have an official sstreet address if they live on a reservation. That's not an accident. It's the point;

- Even the push to force people to have birth certificates is aimed at Native Americans and poor people. There are quite literally millions of Americans who don't have them [6];

- Even if you have the necessary documentation to get an ID, you may have problems getting access. Again, this is by design. For example, Louisiana closed a bunch of DMV offices in minority areas such that the only DMV in certain black-majority areas was only open one day a month [7];

- The so-called SAVE Act recently passed by the house required your birth certificate to match your ID. Well, that's a problem for married women [8].

- States such as Florida have used private firms to strike people off the voter rolls if their name sounds like a convicted felon anywhere else in the country [9].

And why are we doing all this? There is zero evidence of voter fraud on a large scale [10]. And those convicted of voter fraud are most commonly Republican anyway [11].

But let's just say that we want an ID to vote. Why don't we fund the Federal government to issue it and make sure it is readily available and cheap or free? No, we can't have that because it's never been the point.

At some point you have to realize that they don't care about "integrity". Voter suppression is the point because it's the only way they can win elections.

Lastly, I feel compelled to remind people of Lee Atwater's famous 1981 remarks [12]. Republicans went from overt racism to being ever more abstract but the goals remained the same: to disproportionately impact black and brown people.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballot_Security_Task_Force

[2]: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/09/rnc-ballot-securit...

[3]: https://elections-blog.mit.edu/articles/how-policy-influence...

[4]: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/ariz...

[5]: https://azmirror.com/2024/06/06/100-years-after-citizenship-...

[6]: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/mill...

[7]: https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/one-day-a-month-is-no...

[8]: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/13/g-s1-59684/save-act-married-w...

[9]: https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2000/06/23/hundreds-of-vote...

[10]: https://www.hoover.org/research/no-evidence-voter-fraud-guid...

[11]: https://archive.amarkfoundation.org/the2020election/voter-fr...

[12]: https://www.bunkhistory.org/resources/lee-atwaters-infamous-...