Okay...someone HAD to ask the question and the supreme court HAD to reply to it. The way I see it, it's just one of those remnant old laws that nobody really cares about and that has no practical use because no one in their right mind is going to enforce it.
You can just leave politics out of it. If everyone just votes to throw out this law, then nobody has to take a blame for...
What's that? Republicans won't block this law? But...what?
Jeez...just when you thought your world view of republican politicians was "cartoonishly comic evil" and therefore couldn't possibly be real, they go all "nope! that's us! we ARE that evil
".
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They know the point of an election is to get the MOST votes, right?