Does Voter Suppression Have An Impact? If so, Then Polls Showing Biden Having a Lead May Not Matter
I am not saying that the polls are not accurate. I think the polls are accurate. The issue is that polls do not decide election outcomes. Its votes that matter. Yet, it has become increasingly clear that Republicans do not care about democracy. Rather, despite the lip service they give to freedom, Republicans have increasingly sought to suppress the vote. Even though a lot of their voter suppression efforts are targeted toward minorities, even white people are affected as Republicans impose strict voter ID laws and reduce polling locations in more populated areas:
Republicans understand this, which is why Trump is doing his best to attack the United States Postal Service and vote by mail. Republicans are looking for a pretext to once again suppress the vote.
Thus, while more people in more States may prefer Biden that does not matter if they are prevented from voting. For example, if the federal or state government were to strategically send troops and lockdown Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Philadelphia, but leave less populated and rural areas of the swing states unrestricted, Trump can "win" by taking more populated blue areas out of the equation.
So, even if Biden clearly leads Trump in terms of popular preference and polls, Trump can win more votes by putting certain cities into lockdown on the day of the election like he did Portland.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/7/18071438/midterm-election-results-voting-rights-georgia-florida
In Georgia, Kemp remained in his position as Georgia’s secretary of state — the office that oversees elections in Georgia — even while running for governor against Democrat Stacey Abrams.
Kemp has carried out mass purges of the voter rolls, ostensibly to remove dead people and people who haven’t voted in recent elections from the records, but in such a sweeping way that Democrats fear it will keep voters, particularly minority voters, off the rolls.
Kemp’s office also put 53,000 voter registrations on hold, nearly 70 percent of which are for black voters, by using an error-prone “exact match” system, which stops voter registrations if there are any discrepancies, down to dropped hyphens, with other government records.
And in the days before Election Day, Kemp accused Democrats, through the secretary of state’s website and with no evidence, of attempting to hack the state’s voter registration system. As elections law expert Richard Hasen wrote in Slate, this was “perhaps the most outrageous example of election administration partisanship in the modern era.”
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What's the plan going to be?
