I'm not for disenfranchisement, but I don't automatically buy into this premise.
If anything, increased turnout has corresponded to increased partisan rhetoric and fear based motivations to vote.
The so-called swing-voters (or swing-participants) are (imho with no proof to back this up) generally the groups that are most likely to be influenced by misleading attack ads, Russian bots, or any other form of social engineering/manipulation.
Participation in elections is good, but only if it's for the right reasons... otherwise it becomes like any other targeted meaningless metric.
Artificial barriers/inconveniences to voting should be removed, but that doesn't mean it should be completely effortless to vote.
Some level of proof-of-effort is not a bad thing, imo.
I'm not for disenfranchisement, but I don't automatically buy into this premise.
If anything, increased turnout has corresponded to increased partisan rhetoric and fear based motivations to vote.
The so-called swing-voters (or swing-participants) are (imho with no proof to back this up) generally the groups that are most likely to be influenced by misleading attack ads, Russian bots, or any other form of social engineering/manipulation.
Participation in elections is good, but only if it's for the right reasons... otherwise it becomes like any other targeted meaningless metric.
Artificial barriers/inconveniences to voting should be removed, but that doesn't mean it should be completely effortless to vote.
Some level of proof-of-effort is not a bad thing, imo.