Voter stimulation v. voter suppression

[testsubjectalpha]

Both are bad practices, which practice is worse?

[DGUtley]

Suppression.

[IMPress Polly]

What's voter stimulation, offering people sex if they agree to vote?

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

[IMPress Polly]

(The answer is suppression of course, but I want my question answered!)

[stjames1_53]

What's voter stimulation, offering people sex if they agree to vote?

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Now ya see, that was pure funny stuff there

[MisterVeritis]

What's voter stimulation, offering people sex if they agree to vote?

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Or, perhaps, rubbing them the right way.

[DGUtley]

(The answer is suppression of course, but I want my question answered!)

I want your question answered also....

[testsubjectalpha]

I would argue that a passionate person who knows the issues and wants their vote counted will keep track of where they need to show up to vote and get themselves to the ballot box.

I would argue that unaware persons who don't know any of the issues and frankly don't care, and are identified, used, and have their ignorance manipulated by others, have been used.

Suppression.

[testsubjectalpha]

this thread should get a lot more attention. it's not right political action groups go into communities and fill out ballots for people. it's also not right that polling places are moved at the last minutes so as to confuse people who intend to vote without political action groups in their face.

As for proving you are a citizen and providing a photo id, in the year of 2019...stick that argument up your behind if you think anyone believes that crap.

[IMPress Polly]

this thread should get a lot more attention. it's not right political action groups go into communities and fill out ballots for people. it's also not right that polling places are moved at the last minutes so as to confuse people who intend to vote without political action groups in their face.

As for proving you are a citizen and providing a photo id, in the year of 2019...stick that argument up your behind if you think anyone believes that crap.

This is a one-sidedly conservative message board. Do you really think that significant numbers of people here want to talk about the not-so-subtle (though satisfyingly ironic) Republican voter fraud that appears to have decided the outcome of a House race in North Carolina and has now thrown the outcome of that race into intense legal dispute? You think that people here want to talk about issues like that or the nakedly baseless power grab that was Trump's recent "emergency" declaration or the teacher strike in West Virginia? How about the fact that we're about to abandon the Syrian Kurds to ISIS? No, they want to talk about Jussie Smollett and the MAGA hat kids. And hawk the prospective Howard Schultz presidential run (yes seriously). This is their mental world. It's very different from the one the rest of us are living in.