Louisiana voter registration portal mysteriously shuts down on Registration Day

America has corrupt elections.

From Gerrymandering, Voter Database purges, Voter Suppression through closing polling places, making it hard or impossible to vote by mail.

All of it is intentional. And it won't change because those who are elected are the ones that set the rules.

Imagine you live in a country where about 40% of the population wants to destroy democracy.

Even if the other 60% regains control, isn't your society basically fucked anyway? Because you can never trust that 40% with any kind of power ever again.

Because the moment they would regain that power, they would try to forever cut you off from any power ever again.

> The explanation given is that the portal needs to undergo "scheduled maintenance” that is “required.”

> National Voter Registration Day is a movement to encourage people to register to vote on the fourth Tuesday of September during election years.

There's no way this was an honest mistake. Why schedule maintenance on the exact day you expect a lot of voters to want to use the site?

40% wants to destroy democracy, always demonizes the 60% as sub-human violent scum, and has been stockpiling guns and ammo for decades. And the 40% has violent fantasies of a Civil War do-over. And is enthusiastically receiving active support from foreign powers who would love to see the country descend into bloody chaos.

It's more like 10-80-10.

You've got some small minority of people on both sides who want complete control as a means to their own ends and then the 80% in the middle who don't really care that much and will ally with either side depending on the other specifics of the situation.

I'm pulling the numbers out of my ass but pretty much every contentious issue breaks down this way. Most people mostly don't care about most things until you start getting really extreme.