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Being that I am black, I will say that voting restrictions were part of jim crow and the inability to vote made the rest of jim crow possible. But that is the only disagreement I have with what you said.I have a few reasons.
I don't think it's a good idea to let the State remove any local election official, for any or no reason, which this bill does. I think that opens the door for *actual* shenanigans by letting whichever party currently has the state power prevent change by simply nullifying a bunch of votes from any county that voted against them.
The bill shortens the time and makes it tougher to get absentee ballots, prohibits the state from sending applications to every voter, and places added restrictions on provisional ballots. All of these will serve to reduce the amount of people who can vote rather than expand it. It does expand weekend early-voting hours statewide, but in overcrowded areas (that is, cities) that is more than offset because it limits drop boxes to 1 per 100,000 voters, which disproportionately makes it tougher on city folk, and it gets ride of the two mobile vote bus things they had for overcrowded spots. The food and water thing, even if its intent was to prevent influencers, has the predictable effect of encouraging people to give up and go home.
They passed the law to guard against something that didn't happen, but there is some validity in assuring your people in a perception-is-reality kind of way that it won't happen in the future, so fair enough. Some things I left out actually help do that. These things, though, are limiting participation much more than they are expanding or securing it, and opening the door for future fraud much more than preventing it. So I think it's a bad law.
As for the second question, it's true that this will affect more Black and minority voters than white folks, but to use that hyperbole diminishes how truly awful Jim Crow really was. On the other hand, I'm not about to tell Black people that they can't call it that; I just personally wouldn't draw that line.