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Also there's no value into buying into this false framing that the only voter suppression the GOP engages in is Voter ID.

They've closed polling places in areas that are disproportionately serving people of color (and thus are expected to be more Democratic), they've restricted early voting both in general and with that same specific intent (like trying to stop "pews to the polls" type efforts in some states, they're brazenly partisan about the kind of IDs they'll accept in places where they do have Voter ID (Like allowing gun permits to serve as valid ID but not college ID), they've messed with DMVs to either have to make people travel literally a hundred-plus miles to get to their nearest DMV for a constitutionally required free ID where voter ID is a thing... and then once they get there often try to make the free ID option as hidden as possible, they purge voter rolls even when they lack good cause to do so, they oppose same-day registration, they've literally had court orders (that are lifting this cycle!) preventing them from sending poll watchers to certain sites because they literally had a history of intimidation and deception like sending armed people with misleading armbands and "titles."

This isn't "just" Voter ID - although that's definitely a big part of it - it's a clear, concerted campaign on the part of the GOP to suppress the votes of people - usually minorities - who they don't expect to vote for them.

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