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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RodionRomanovitch · 56-60, M

It's estimated that the Democrats need a 5% swing now just to achieve parity. When you add in disenfanchisement , voter suppression and voter intimidation and a host of other little wheezes that Republican governors and secretarys of state come up with (See Brian Kemp in Georgia) then you are actually running elections that have more in common with the shenanigans of dictators in third world countries than they do with what is supposed to be the country that leads the free world. This isn't democracy , this is a rigged game. It dumbfounds me how it isn't a national scandal.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@RodionRomanovitch I think the hyper partisanship of American politics is why its not a scandal.

Republican politicians and voters (see their responses here) don't care about elections being fair as long as they win. They just need the tiniest sliver of plausible deniability.

RodionRomanovitch · 56-60, M

@Burnley123 And that goes for having help from the Russians too.