Hear Republicans Admit Voter Suppression

I want an answer from conservatives on this on site. In the video below are prominent Republicans admitting the reason they want to restrict voting is to win elections.

Mitch McConnel scoffs, on live TV at the Senate floor, at making Election Day in November a national holiday so more people can vote. How do conservatives continue claiming they care about democracy?

YouTube : Republicans Admit Suppression

Video content:

- Republican Lawyer, Michael Carvin, who no one has ever heard of, "admits" to:
"Because it puts us at a relative disadvantage compared to Democrats. Politics is a zero sum game.
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"It's the difference between winning an election 50-49 and losing an election 51-40.""

- Robert Gleason, PA Republican Chair: states that voter ID helped cut Obama's victory in PA from 10% to 5%
- Unknown (Wisconsin) Republican says taht voter ID laws will help win Wisonconsin (in 2016)

There is other content like this.

I am not a Republican but my opinion is that people should be required to have an ID to vote.

I think the reason that Republicans want to require this is because it prevents ballot harvesting, whereby people who do not care much about politics have their votes facilitated for them by local committes that drive up the numbers.

@Philokalia
Sounds like a working democracy to me. NON working democracy is repubs RIGHT now voting in state legislators to restrict voting, make it hard to vote, thinking that would only hurt democrats.
That is not democracy. That is called CHEATING. Bullying or any other pejorative you want to insert.

Gerrymandering, another effort by repubs to stack the deck in their favor.
We need to eliminate the electoral college, gerrymandering, voter suppression and intimidation at the voting booths. THEN we might have a viable real democracy. Right now we have a fractured democracy where republicans are doing their evil best to stop people, mainly black and hispanic and first nation voters since they are for the most part democrat, can't have THAT in a democracy can we.....

@philokalia said
I think the reason that Republicans want to require this is because it prevents ballot harvesting, whereby people who do not care much about politics have their votes facilitated for them by local committes that drive up the numbers.