All excellent points, Bill.

As to mail-in voting, making ballot access easier and auto-registration, I still don't get why Repubs are so against those ideas. Maybe it's because their policies are anathema to young voters especially, and the American public generally. Their calculus has been "if we can't persuade them with our ideas, we'll make it harder for them to vote for candidates we oppose (starting with gerrymandering and work outward), and we'll put in place judges who are sympathetic to our policies."