Colorado Democrats felt triumphant. After a decade, the state party was in a strong position. Demographic indicators were prone to their way. So, 2013 They prepared a coup d’état of the state hidden to the Republican Party: a new voting law.
The law dramatically expanded the vote access, obliging the mail votes to be sent to each registered voter for most elections, creating new voting centers where everyone could vote and allow voters to register on the election day. When everyone votes, Democrats winAs the party members say often, and now almost everyone in Colorado would seem to be able to vote.
They voted on next year’s election day. And the Democrats lost.
Although the Governor of Democratic, who signed the law, won the re -election, the Republicans won the voting reform voter elections to win the Secretary General, the Secretary of State, the Treasurer of the State and, most importantly, the US Senator, as Cory Gardner defeated the elder Mark Udall, a member of the political dynasty.
It was a state -Republican high watermark, which has undoubtedly become a blue state since then. And the guilty Democrats just themselves. They were falling for the oldest and most brutal political myth policy used by the Republicans to justify restricting voting laws and democrats to deal with unexpected losses. However, research has repeatedly shown that this is simply not true.
Recent evidence provided 2024. Investigation of the Pew Electoral Research Center. Donald Trump won the election of 1.5 percentage points, but any Democrat who muttered these new voting restrictions in the Red States hid the result with this study, which surveyed 9,000 voters after the election, and then thoroughly inspected who really voted and who did not.
What they found: If everyone had voted for the right one, Trump’s win margin would have been twice as large.
This is not a fluff. Although both Democrats and Republicans believed that voting extension by mail by 2020 During the pandemia, Joe Biden helped to overcome the short, and the studies repeatedly damaged the central principles of beliefs:
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A study of the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research found that states that made up the vote in 2020 were found.
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A study by the University of Virginia’s Political Center found that the states that made the vote easier could have been greater, but that did not help either Trump or Biden.
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A study of the California Institute of Public Policy found that the voting could have been facilitated by the activity, but it either had no effect or had Slightly enhanced short;
I could continue. I would usually not go into the weeds of research, but I want to emphasize the clear study – and that is, during the election that contained one of the most dramatic development of voting access in the recent history.
This does not mean that voting laws are irrelevant. Just our understanding of how they work is static and are really much more dynamic. Accept the strict voter ID law and the campaigns will spend more time and help voters get the correct identification. Accept the voting law and campaigns, and inform you to make sure they return ballot papers. Expand your early voting and campaigns, spending more time locking those votes. Nothing is corrected.
Occasionally, one party will be hit by flat legs and will lose the winning race because it did not understand new rules. (Failed to strategize the ranking of ranking, for example, hurt Andrew Cuo Cuo New York mayor.) However, losers are fast learning and the advantage is. When 2005 Kuok introduced a zero sugar inch, Pepsi simply did not give up and did not leave the business; Two years later, she released her version. Political parties follow the same competitive logic.
There is no doubt that recent Republican efforts to limit the vote access are motivated by the belief that this will help their party. Although they usually assess these laws related to the integrity and confidence of voters, someone slips every time, as when the Wisconsin Republican legislator said the short would win the state in 2016. For a new voter ID law.
But that doesn’t mean they are right, just as Colorado Democrats were mistaken in 2013, when they think the vote will help them. I understand the impulse to argue over these laws without going into this assumption. However, in doing so, Democrats run the risk of finding out why so many Americans in 2024 are in hard work. Piraeus Trump and what they can do in the future.
That is why we can agree: everyone should be allowed to vote. And when everyone votes, we all win.
This article was originally published in msnbc.com