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From: libtard@sandennistas.orq
On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 18:16:31 -0600, Just Wondering wrote:
>On 4/14/2021 4:36 PM, Rudy Canoza wrote:
>> scooter wrote, "He doesn't seem to understand the term 'election day'".
>> scooter also wrote, "There is a reason we call it 'election day' rather
>> than election week."
>>
>> scooter is committing a fallacy: appeal to tradition, also called
>> appeal to antiquity (argumentum ad antiquitatem). Because we always
>> used to vote on only one day, scooter says we always *should* vote on
>> only one day. That's false. There is no valid reason why we, as a
>> society, might not decide to allow early voting. There's no valid
>> reason why we might not do several things to make it easier to vote,
>> thus increasing voter participation.
>>
>> scooter doesn't want to allow early and mail-in voting because he thinks
>> it makes it too easy for Democrats to vote. He pretends to be opposed
>> to "fraudulent" votes, but the reality is, he just doesn't want
>> Democrats to be able to vote easily.
>>
>> All of the Republiscum election changes that reduce or eliminate early
>> voting days, reduce polling place hours, reduce polling places, restrict
>> or eliminate mail-in voting — these are all intended to make it harder
>> for eligible voters who vote Democratic to vote.
>
>Your entire argument boils down to "People who vote Democratic
>are dumber than other voters, so they need extra help." If
>someone is really too stupid to figure out how to vote when
>everybody else can, maybe he shouldn't be voting.
BINGO
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