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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -2 points 4 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.