Still, if the media and Democrats weren’t hypocrites, they could focus on hot spots of “voter suppression,” where state laws specifically limit the times for early voting to something less than 24 hours. President Biden’s Delaware won’t have in-person early voting until next year—and even then voters will only be able to cast ballots from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Maryland and New York allow early voting from 7.a.m. to 8 p.m., and New Mexico until 9 p.m. Virginia has early in-person voting from 8 a.m. only until 5 p.m. The enemies of democracy who run the District of Columbia and Illinois limit early voting to at most 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., while the vote suppressors in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island OK the practice only during “regular business hours.” Oregon and Washington state allow it only during the more sinister “normal business hours,” according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Unlimited drive-through voting is similarly rare. Only a few jurisdictions in a handful of states—Alabama, Arizona, California, Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia—provided it last year, all with a limited number of sites, mostly drop-off points for absentee ballots. While drop boxes are allowed in some states for people to deposit their absentee ballots, no state makes drive-through voting a regular practice.
Yet Democrats from Mr. Biden and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and former President Barack Obama all accuse Texas Republicans of voter suppression for not instituting 24-hour and unlimited drive-through early voting. When can we expect their spirited denunciations of other states—many of them blue—that don’t allow either?
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