At yet, jim crow laws still exist today. We just changed the names. "Voter security" is a nice dog whistle for it. See the MAGA people below for logical fallacies.
Elections are an interesting logistical problem. There has to be some level of fraud deterrent. If there wasn't every election could be effectively "DDoS" attacked through sending in more fake absentee ballots than exist possible real ones. You put too much deterrent in place and you start to deter real votes too, said deterrents tend to affect legitimate votes of the disadvantaged variety first as well. Kicking people while they are down sorta thing. Gotta find a way to deter the crime while affecting people's right to vote in the smallest way possible. Functionally speaking there isnt a way to have security in voting without removing privacy, without putting barriers that catch real voters in the crossfire.
That's before you get to the fact the people in power dont understand the technology being used for voting. They don't understand the voting machines or how results are communicated across the country. We've also left voting machines in unlocked unguarded rooms before soooooooo
probably some connection chain from "minorities tend to be more likely to be disadvantage" and then connecting that to "disadvantaged people tend to be more likely to be affected by barriers to voting" making it more likely that a racial minority be made barred from voting by circumstance from anti-fraud measures than a white person.
The issue with calling that anything similar to "racist" is that it implies malice, it implies that reason for implementing fraud reduction is racially charged, that its intent isnt to stop voter fraud but to negatively affect minorities through a 2 or 3 chainlink indirect path, which is absolutely ridiculous.
That's before you get to the fact the people in power dont understand the technology being used for voting. They don't understand the voting machines or how results are communicated across the country. We've also left voting machines in unlocked unguarded rooms before soooooooo
The issue with calling that anything similar to "racist" is that it implies malice, it implies that reason for implementing fraud reduction is racially charged, that its intent isnt to stop voter fraud but to negatively affect minorities through a 2 or 3 chainlink indirect path, which is absolutely ridiculous.
Now all I can hear is "If a person won't agree with me, they must be a MAGA" to the tune of "lez be friends" lol