So the accepted wisdom according to Zaid is that Republican obstruction of voting is wholly ineffective. I don't buy it. Maybe it's not *completely* effective, but combined with other douche moves like overrunning longtime precedentem, it tilts the playing field. They're playing death by a thousand cuts, not 1 obstruction to rule them all. Look at the wide strategy that preceded Jan 6 - that wasn't a sudden Trump invention - it's an expansion of what's been going on behind the scenes for decades - these donors, these conservative institutes, the religious groups, etc. But seeing hours long voting lines in a developed country is both a psy-ops FU display and a real deterrent, even if not a game changer by itself. Even for voting, the sheer # of laws around the country gives an idea. People thought they couldn't change Roe v Wade, yet hear we are - not through revoking, but through tricky end-arounds and smashball.

Florida 2000 and the presidency was largely stolen via massive voting purge, combined with mob disruption tactics. Ohio 2094 voting machines seemed a game-changer where machine flaws and internet connectivity were never resolved - instead it continues to this day. The GA secretary of state running for governor seemed to help his chances against Stacey Abrams through excessive zeal in revoking voter registrations. Hans Von Spakovsky made the banner of supposed voter fraud a keystone in making voting more difficult decades ago..