“I don’t think they realized how much it was going to affect their voter base,” he said, adding that Washington has “a lot of rural Republican voters.”

  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Reminds me how Issue 3 in Ohio, which makes drivers licenses required for voting, is going to backfire.

    Old people, who tend to vote conservative, also are less likely to have drivers licenses. Which means the Republicans are now filtering themselves out of the system.

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      remember when they were thinking about forcing passports and other IDs last year, republicans are less likely to have one, let alone offices that supply passports, like USPS offices.