Reply #24: Right now, courts have to micromanage hundreds of details of election [View All]

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administration. The devil is definitely in the details in these ingenious Republican disfranchisement schemes. But, building on Commissioner Overton's excellent dissent, the proposal I've laid out would eliminate thousands of possible variations on the vote-suppression schme, in one fell swoop.

Instead of having to micromanage hundreds of details of election law in all the states, districts, and other principalities that vote in Presidential elections, courts would scrutinize cost-benefit analyses that boil down proposed changes in law to their effects on numerical benchmarks. These benchmarks would be proportions of voting age people who actually vote and actually have their votes counted.