After all, the vote is fundamental to freedom. America has a long and horrid history of denying votes to legions of its citizens. Indeed, women have had the vote for only the past 80 years. We can't return to such practices in any guise. New forms of denial are just as horrendous and threatening to democracy as those ugly customs that routinely existed generations ago.
Voting is a fundamental right of citizenship.
That right must be protected at all costs. Claude Lewis is a retired columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer.