I'm not saying many of the things you think I'm saying. I don't defend attempts to discriminate against black voters, but that isn't the same thing as deterring ability to vote. Is it wrong to close polling stations based on skin color? Yeah. Does that deter their ability to vote? Not by any reasonable measure. Absentee voting has rendered the need for stations obsolete. I'm not even a fan of absentee voting, because it raises turnout too high, as far as I can tell. I wonder if Washington will ever go non-socialist since we went all-absentee.

Also the law says a lot of things, and a lot of them are wrong. I'm not saying this law is wrong, just that appealing to the law as a source of good ideas is a bad idea.