I've never heard of this. I have heard of
voter suppression in Georgia by Republican Brian Kemp and of Republican installed
voter ID laws in North Carolina that targeted African Americans with almost surgical precision, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are Democrats that have done something similar. Got a link?
You've heard of what the Democrat-run media want you to hear.
Pennsylvania made a bunch of changes in voting policy for the 2020 election, because of the pandemic. That, in itself, is reasonable. But with Democrats having both the Governor and Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on their side, they basically did what they wanted. The most controversial is this:
https://www.philadelphiavotes.com/e...satellite_election_offices_on_a_rolling_basis
Just Philadelphia, the single major Democratic stronghold that keeps PA purple instead of red, opened up in-person early voting. Pennsylvania doesn't have in-person early voting (though laws are changing as we speak, so maybe that's already outdated, but we didn't in 2020). In order to rationalize their violation of election rules, which were
updated in 2019 with bipartisan support, they pretended what they were doing was mail-in voting because that's the one way to legally vote early in PA. You can request a ballot by mail or online, they mail you a ballot, and you can either mail it in or drop it at the county elections office. Philadelphia decided that if you request a ballot in person, fill it out, and then immediately hand it back, that's counts as the same thing as dropping at the elections office. They also decided to open 9 satellite facilities to operate out of, and still counted that as handing it in at the county election office. What any of this has to do with covid, I don't know, but the executive and judicial branches of PA's government let them do it. No place else in the state was doing early voting (cause it violated the law), only the place where all the Democrats live.
Funny enough, this lead to one of the best single lines to come out of the debates that year:
Bad things happen in Philadelphia. Because the city argued that their satellite voting offices weren't technically polling places, they didn't have to let the campaigns see what they were doing, and the media actually ran cover for that argument, acting as though Trump was making up stories since obviously PA doesn't have early voting.
It's also why on election night, it looked like Trump was winning at first, because we count the mail in votes at the end, and
1/3rd of all registered voters in Philadelphia submitted "mail-in ballots" The city just blatantly violated the rules, and played stupid rhetorical games so that the media could pretend they were doing something legitimate. The rest of the state didn't have the privilege of rulebreaking early voting, only the city where Democrats live.
And maybe you think, well there was a pandemic and changing things up makes sense. Sure. But then we consider people seriously effected by the pandemic: the elderly, who had polling places moved away from them, and in many cases were basically trapped in their homes by the guidance of of the state. And when advocates asked "hey, what are you doing to help these people vote", the answer was that they
"could apply to vote by mail". Mind you, that came from the office of Rachel Levine, who Biden appointed assistant health secretary of the US a few months after.
If you imagine for a moment the level of uproar there would be if a bunch of polling places were moved away from Democratic voters, at the same time as extraordinary measures were being used to get Republicans voting, and the Republican officials consolation was "well, they can apply to vote by mail"... I don't know, maybe you'll get an idea how the parties aren't terribly different in their tactics, it's just the coverage that varies so extremely.
