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throwaway0a5e on Nov 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: University of Florida bars professors from testify...

>would that be an acceptable trade off?

Depends on the margins of victory perception of the fraud among the other voters.

If people widely consider the elections to be illegitimate high participation doesn't do anything to solve that.

notreallyserio on Nov 1, 2021 [–]

People that believe that are substituting feelings for evidence, so passing laws to assuage their concerns doesn’t make sense. That’d be like requiring drug testing for people to get public assistance, but worse because voting is so fundamental.

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