It's not just policymaking by other means; it is using administrative burdens to both deny a clearly expressed democratic preference while also restricting the right of people to vote.
It is anti-democratic in both process and effect.
It is anti-democratic in both process and effect.
https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1446203796779159552
It so not just the compliance costs of petitioning for restitution and paying to do so. It is the learning costs of navigating a labyrinthine process to do so. 
This is a description of Catch-22's, where the government has designed a system that makes it impossible for citizens to reclaim the rights of citizenship.
The outcome of this system is predictable: it is not just to remove the formal rights of citizenship, but to alienate people from any sense that they are citizens in a community with a functional social contract. nytimes.com/2021/10/07/opi…
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