Why Are Republicans So Afraid of Voters?

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

There is no “both sides do it” when it comes to intentionally keeping Americans away from the polls.
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But across the country, the group most responsible for making voting harder, if not impossible, for millions of Americans is the Republican Party. Republicans have been saying it themselves for ages. “I don’t want everybody to vote,” Paul Weyrich, a leader of the modern conservative movement, told a gathering of religious leaders in 1980. “As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

This strategy has become a central pillar of the G.O.P. platform. It is behind the party’s relentless push for certain state laws and practices — like strict voter-identification requirements and targeted voter purges — that claim to be about preserving electoral integrity but are in fact about suppressing turnout and voting among groups that lean Democratic.

The strategy also is behind the partisan gerrymandering that Republican state lawmakers have mastered over the past decade, redrawing district lines to keep themselves in power even when they lose a majority of the statewide vote. (Democrats gerrymander when they can, too, but the most egregious examples of the past decade have been by Republicans.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/opinion/us-voting-rights-republicans.html

[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. Their main goal is to help the wealthy.

So they fear the masses will use democracy to even the playing field.

Aristotle considered that possibility, and proposed social welfare to avoid it.

James Madison preferred to limit the democratic process.

[gracemcdonald]

2. They Recognize They Are Becoming The Shrinking Minority

As the older, conservative electorate slowly disappears, and a more diverse, more tolerant voter base grows, they recognize that on an equal playing field, they are more likely to lose. So, they will play the dirty games for as long as they can!

[SheltieLover]

3. Because GOP does not ever do anything good for the countfy

Or the people!

So they want only their ilk to vote them back in.

[world wide wally]

4. Not to mention destroying the Post Office in an attempt to slow down mail in voting.