Would Trump have actually won without voter suppression?
This is an interesting read by a data forensic scientist of sorts who argues Trump would not have won the 2024 election without the numerous voter suppression efforts .
He lost by around 1% of the voters that showed up, 35% of eligible voters stayed home and didn't go to the polls.
If more than 2% of those that didn't vote but were registered didn't vote because of access issues then yes. But it's going to be a hard sell to convince me that 1 in 3 people didn't have access to a polling place.
He could have still lost even with voter suppression if 1/3 of people weren't disengaged with politics.
It would be interesting to see a breakdown of what percentage of the 35% that stayed home did so because of what factors.
Access?
Protest?
Confidence Kamala would win?
Didn't care?
There's many factors that lead to this outcome and if even one of them went the other way we wouldn't be here.
It's an extremely uphill battle to argue that the second highest turnout election ever was suppressed to a meaningful degree.
Suppression includes the mass rejection and disqualification of perfectly legal ballots for various "reasons".
They turned up alright. But their vote was thrown away.
