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Ross - I've seen you mention a few times about the changes put in place by democratic majority state governments around the pandemic and your belief that these were on level with any concerns about voting changes done by the other side. I think the big issue here - and one I would appreciate your thoughts on-  is one side was without a doubt trying to make easier the ability to vote. Mail in ballots, same day voter registration, ballot drop boxes in more places, Sunday voting, increasing polling locations - to name a few...oh - allowing people to bring water/snacks to others waiting in line to vote. While pretty much every republican directed initiative around voting was to make it less easy - less polling places, trying to limit early voting days, adding layers and layers to mail in voting procedure - and the list goes on. And you yourself acknowledged - voter and voting fraud on any measurable level didn't happen. So why not make it easier to vote and not harder?

And that doesn't even touch on gerrymandering - which on the whole - favored republicans. I live in OH where we voted to lessen gerrymandering. The republicans in the state government slow rolled the process though this past election - one in which the very districts up for vote were considered unconstitutional. The end result - the supreme court in the state shifted and now will likely NOT find the districts unconstitutional (the previous court was even majority republican at the time! - that's how crooked it is).

Easier to vote or harder to vote. Which would you choose?

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