strunkenwhite
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All right.Because, again, this wasn't what we were discussing. I made a point about how it's possible to make it slightly harder to exercise a right without it being infringement, and the rather than answer that point you suddenly changed the topic to preclearance which hadn't been mentioned until then. I don't mind taking a whack at preclearance but I think you need to answer the previous statements rather than change the subject entirely first.
With freedom of the press or freedom of speech, there are difficulties inherent to expressing those rights, naturally. Buying a press, getting on a soapbox. The government is not obligated to buy you a gun. But with casting a vote, the government is inherently involved in the expression of that right, since it is the receptacle of that vote. It must set up the system that verifies the citizen's eligibility to vote, collect that ballot, and ensure that it is faithfully counted. With freedom of the press, the government can leave things up to the people that want to publish stuff, within certain guard rails; with voting, the government has to do the publishing. And the way it goes about its publishing [is] at issue here. And that is why "getting someone to print my book is hard" is not as much the government's problem as "casting my vote is hard".
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