My take on election laws

Troy MI

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Some of the states this past presidential election cycle were won on incredibly close margins (fractions of a percent/ around 10k votes). Ordinary people entrenched in the culture war can't see it, but voting laws by either party's legislators are less about "fairness" or "voter fraud" and more about pushing those small margins to their side. Very few people can't vote because they don't have ID, but even 1/20th of a single percent of the voting population in a state with 10M is several thousand votes, a sizeable chunk of a potential winning margin. One of the previous posters insisted that people "Vote on the day of election as always ! unless absentee" Why exactly are you against early voting? I post in Troy for anonymity (lifelong Michigander, Troy is one of many places I've lived) but I actually live in a rural Michigan township populated by more cows that people. You know, Trump country. It took me all of 5 minutes to vote, there was no line to speak of. People in urban areas have to wait hours to vote, if their employer will even let them have that time off. Giving people flexibility to vote early disproportionately benefits urbanites who tend to vote blue, and taking that away disproportionately benefits rural voters who rarely have to wait in line. Don't you see it? It's obviously a political tactic and not about who is right and who is wrong. Though I don't think it is right to throw up roadblocks to discourage voter participation, especially if it doesn't do anything to make our elections more secure. So back to the original question - care to explain (without handwaving - specifics required here...) how nixing early voting makes our elections more secure?