{"id":20347,"date":"2020-12-11T11:24:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T16:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=20347"},"modified":"2020-12-11T11:24:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T16:24:51","slug":"the-texas-lawsuit-and-the-idea-behind-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2020\/12\/11\/the-texas-lawsuit-and-the-idea-behind-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Texas lawsuit and the idea behind it"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p> One odd thing about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/admin\/2020\/Press\/SCOTUSFiling.pdf\">Texas suing other states<\/a> is that it seems to call for something that I would actually like: a national, federally supported and federally enforced, set of voting standards.\r\n<p>I disagree (I think) with the people bringing the case about what those standards should be, but I do agree with the basis of the case: Voters in one state are harmed when voters in other states are harmed. When Texas refuses to provide on-line registration (or same-day registration, or to allow citizens who have completed their sentences after felony convictions to register, or to have enough polling places and ballot boxes near to where people live, etc, etc) it does harm to me as a voter in Connecticut\u2014both because in practice that prevents the popular election of Democratic Senators and electors who would pass legislation that I think is superior, and because my own participation in federal self-government is intrinsically harmed when voting is suppressed anywhere in the country. My confidence in my own vote being fairly counted would be harmed by wide-spread fraud and corruption elsewhere (if it did occur, as the lawsuit doesn\u2019t actually allege). And of course a corrupt local or state government with officials who are willing to subvert democracy in their own state is going to affect neighboring states and all states.\r\n<p>It\u2019s not worth thinking about the lawsuit (I hope) but it is worth thinking about whether we as a nation would like to have that national set of voting rights and standards.\r\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I><br>-Vardibidian.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger is aware that the actual idea behind the lawsuit is the notion that some people's votes shouldn't count because they are simply not fundamentally legitimate citizens. But there's another idea as well.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20348,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20347\/revisions\/20348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}