Originally Posted by
RubeRad
Being against making voting easy seems to be (at least recently) typically a republican/conservative, I guess because people that find voting not easy are more likely to vote democrat? (i.e. are more likely non-white, more likely lower-income, more likely unable to take time off work, or travel to a polling place, etc)
That's just the way the coalitions are worked out today. It's a matter of who's got power and feels like they're losing it; who doesn't have power and feels like they should.
A similar example would be the constant drive in every state to split up the electoral college votes rather than voting in a block. This is a strategy to break the power of the state in the electoral college, and it's always pursued by the party that's out, appealing directly to the voters to evade the hostile legislature.