It seems a natural extension of citizens united.
America is far removed from the idea of one person having one vote, and all those votes would carry equal weight, and whoever gets the most wins, albeit via the antiquated electoral college mechanism.
Bad actors like Musk will manipulate things to move the dial.
States like Georgia will scrub hundreds of thousands from the records, disqualifying them from voting, while āwinningā by 50k.
Gerrymandering has been extreme from the Republicans for a long time, since they do not want people choosing their politicians, but politicians choosing their people.
Significant, common sense reform needs to happen. It will probably be too much to ask for here, though.
The John Lewis voting act, if passed, would be a good step in the right direction.
The Republicans, at least in their current guise, simply do not have the numbers to prevail, in a fair fight. And given population trends, that is only going to worsen for them, as we go.
Their solution is to suppress enough votes, lie their arses off, and own the political system at all levels, to prevent democracy from happening. It has been a successful tactic for them, in large part, to date. But because they just do not have the numbers the tactics get more and more brazen.
At some point, and hopefully we are nearing that time, they will lose enough times that someone, somewhere, might think that they need to do some soul searching and think about how to enlarge their appeal.
The outcome of this election will either solidify their tactics, or cause some reflection, as Trump will be widely seen as the serial loser he is.