Democrats have focused on it . Obama ' s ground team spent months calling Pennsylvania in 2012 making sure people were aware of the new voting restrictions . Hillary ' s ground team made millions of calls into places like North Carolina to fight these efforts . One of Hillary ' s first speeches of the campaign was on expanding voting rights and going after the Republicans who have been trying to take people ' s rights away . You beat them in the short term by helping people vote . You beat them in the long term by winning elections . If progressives weren ' t idiotic babies who don ' t vote unless they love their candidate , this could have been solved through the Supreme Court . But now it ' s only going to get worse .