# I Pit the ID-demanding GOP vote-suppressors (Part 1)

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**Created:** [June 12, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943 "2012-06-12T19:15:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943/5640 "2014-06-21T20:26:53Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> Equivalence! Yes, of course! Saves the day!
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> But wait…back when you were rolling around on the floor, pissing and moaning about the wretched behavior involved in the Massachusetts Massacre, did you bring in equivalence? Like, “Yeah, but the Republicans would do the same thing if they had the chance”? Don’t think so, let me look it up…
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> Search, search, search…Why, no, no you didn’t. Well, sonofagun! I guess this equivalence thingy is a new addition to your armory of moral criteria. When did you find out about this, today? Boy, that’s handy as hell, isn’t it! Just when you needed it the most, it pops up!

**elucidator** , you’re absolutely wrong. I first commented on the Massachusetts’ legislature shenanigans in [this thread, from 2009.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=535056)

And look at my post #25 of that thread:

> [@Senator Kirk and the Constitutionality of Expedient Law Switching](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-kirk-and-the-constitutionality-of-expedient-law-switching/512967/25):
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> And to be clear: there’s **nothing in this question that’s remotely an indictment of Democrats alone, in my mind. We have only to look at the various gerrymandering efforts of Republican-controlled legislatures to realize that** , as if there were any doubt in the first place.
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> But while gerrymandering efforts can have thin (OK, virtually translucent) rationales for change and even reversal from year to year (“Hey, the population and demographic changed, so THAT’S why we shoudl redraw this district to look like a twisted dodecahedron!”) the example in Massachusetts is a bit more laid bare. And even then, we have exactly two changes… hardly enough to base any sort of judicial action on.
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> I think from a personal, we’re-all-buddies-here-on-the-message-board level, it’s kind of ridiculous to not acknowledge the Massachusetts action as nakedly partisan, \*\*just like countless Republican actions have been. \*\*No claims about the purity of either party, OK?

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