Is voter suppression a big issue in US politics?

A record mid term turnout still had less than 50% voting and this is scarily low in a democracy. I've read about all sorts of logistical problems: hour long lines and machines but I working etc. Also, it is harder to register to vote than in other countries, with struct ID laws and life bans for ex felons. Gerrymandered Congress districts and two Senators for every state regardless of population seem ridiculous to me.

How can such an inbalanced and weird system decide so much?

Is this by accident or design?

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Northwest · M

The election is not done, until every last vote is suppressed :-)

My state (and Oregon) adopted a very simple system. The entire state uses a vote by mail system. You register, and the data is cross-verified against your personal data. You don't need stamps, and you can drop your ballot off in any mailbox, post office and special collection boxes in neighborhoods.

When they're processed, the signature is compared to the signature on my driver's license record. There's no excuse for not having a 100% participation, but only 79% voted in the 2016 elections. I believe the participation is a little higher for 2018.

We, as a nation, decide so much, because of immigration. All of our innovators, came from other places. The problem, lately, is that bullies took over.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Northwest All this proves is that their German scientists...

Northwest · M

@Burnley123 Trump's uncle was an MIT Professor. He did not teach what Trump thinks he did, but that's how Mushroom Head got to be a stable genius.