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Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. (act.represent.us)
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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

mandatory vote solves nothing

It theoretically solves structural disenfranchisement, as a mandate to vote is implicitly a mandate to allow people to vote.

In practice, though? States can still layer on all sorts of Jim Crow shit to screen out the lower classes again.

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