re: When the Dims make claims of voter suppression what specifically are they talking about?

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There is a big segment of the population that I don't think SHOULD be in the voting booth. For the most part, it is the same segment that the Far Right wants to keep from voting.

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This country would be lightyears better if in order to cast a vote that went into the pile that was actually counted you had to correctly answer a single easy question about the country. It could be a very easy one like:

Which coast is Kansas City on:

A) West Coast
B) East Coast
C) Kansas City isn't on a f'n coast

That one question would yield a balanced budget inside of 3 years.

(For liberals that don't live in Missouri, the answer is C)

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Which coast is Kansas City on:

A) West Coast
B) East Coast
C) Kansas City isn't on a f'n coast

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I admit, I laughed.

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"People in foreign countries should be allowed to vote for the US President."
This is not a joke. It was advocated by the NYT years ago. The logic was that people all over the world are effected by American policy so they should have a vote.

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Was it actually ADVOCATED by the Times, or was it just some random Op-Ed?

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This is where the large bloc of posters who support repeal of the 19th Amendment should be chiming-in.

They would like to prevent women from voting, because they see women as being too emotional to vote objectively.

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Jesus fricking Christ, nobody is seriously proposing to do that, they are spitballing when they see the shrill emotional decision making process so many leftist women actually use.

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Jesus fricking Christ, nobody is seriously proposing to do that, they are spitballing when they see the shrill emotional decision making process so many leftist women actually use.

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They're not even spitballing. They're being funny, f'n around. I tell my mother, sisters and daughters all the time that we need to #rethinkthe19th. They get that I'm just flicking shite, but then again every single one of them is a conservative, so . . .

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Far Right wants to keep from voting.

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Almost everyone I know supports some sort of ID requirement, and controls on/elimination of mail-in voting etc.

Not a single one has ever expressed, even in conversation among like- minded people, any desire to actually prevent anyone from voting. It’s always about verifying that the voter/vote is legitimate and who they purport to be, and are voting for the candidate of their own personal choice

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It’s always about verifying that the voter/vote is legitimate and who they purport to be, and are voting for the candidate of their own personal choice

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I’ll quibble with that a little bit, because I also like to see some effort involved. I don’t want someone to be able to vote for the most powerful office in the US if not the world with the same ease they vote for American Idol or whatever pop culture slag is hot right now. “Text BLUE to this number to vote for Kamala Harris.” Make some time, go to a polling location. If they can’t manage that modicum of effort they should stick to voting for reality TV stars.

As usual, everything this guy just said is bullshite.

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reducing days to vote.
reducing number of polling places.

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I would change the General Election to 3 days.....I don’t care which 3 consecutive days. That’s plenty of time for Americans to vote, if your out of the country for whatever reason there could be arrangements to deal with that situation.

Bingo. Just got my weekly email “news” update from The Atlantic. I know - why right? But I’ve had a subscription for 25 years and generally like reading both sides. But here is the “news” from the “newsletter” editor on an article by senior editor Brownstein. What in the hell! Note the use of “assault” and “voter suppression”. I’m sorry but requiring an ID to vote is a little more important than having to show one to get a pack of cigs or a bottle of T bird. If you can use an id to buy booze you can use it to vote. Maybe just let folks show their check stub from Biden Bucks check as proof of ID. Bet the IRS knows who lives where! Sorry for long rant and I’m not linking.

From The Atlantic:
“The future of voting rights in America is on the line. “It’s no exaggeration to say that future Americans could view the resolution of this struggle as a turning point in the history of U.S. democracy,” my colleague Ronald Brownstein explains.

Three things are happening at once: At the state level, Republicans are pushing a fresh batch of voter-suppression laws. And in Congress, Democrats are countering with national legislation to protect access to the ballot. The House votes on the first of two big bills tonight. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is considering a major voting-rights case.

Federal legislation may be Democrats’ only chance to stop the assault by the GOP. The party “may have only a brief window” to use their “unified control of Washington to establish national election standards,” Ronald writes.
At the Supreme Court, the Voting Rights Act is hanging by a thread. The Court could further weaken the legislation’s protections. “With a gutted VRA, we will have a country where the forces of disenfranchisement are nearly unstoppable,” our senior editor Vann R. Newkirk II warns in our March issue.
Structural barriers Republicans can use to cling to power could make the coming years dangerous. “These same flammable ingredients were present in the 1850s, when a rising majority found it impossible to impose its agenda because of all the structural obstacles laid down by the retreating minority,” Ronald argued on the eve of the 2020 election.”