Two things can be true:
-The voting restrictions under consideration are very bad and anti-democratic. They should be defeated.
-The scope of effects they will create is unknown. The voter ID literature, for instance, finds small negative effects, not permanent minority rule.
-The voting restrictions under consideration are very bad and anti-democratic. They should be defeated.
-The scope of effects they will create is unknown. The voter ID literature, for instance, finds small negative effects, not permanent minority rule.
The first point DOES NOT DEPEND on the second. Anti-democratic laws are bad full stop even if the harms they inflict are not unbounded.
Structural disadvantages for urban voters, Democrats, etc. can be anti-democratic too. The question is not binary.
Structural disadvantages for urban voters, Democrats, etc. can be anti-democratic too. The question is not binary.
More on the cumulative point from @ProfCAnderson. And note discussion above is about laws under consideration, not redistricting
https://twitter.com/ProfCAnderson/status/1371498036329910272?s=20
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