Real simple, I am frankly surprised you can't see it....If there were other methods to cast their vote, and they had the opportunity to vote, then NO ONE was suppressed.
Baloney - worse... its yesterdays baloney now digested and heading down the porcelain bowl in a swirl. I have to ask you a straight forward question - which is it? Are you being
1- hyper partisan and you are simply glad the Republicans won and you will take it any way you had to get it?
2- hopelessly naive to actually believe what you just said about the supposed "opportunity to vote" being enough..... or
3- totally uninformed about the actual ways of the world when it comes to election machinations?
Which is it?
You see, I make my living in politics and government. That is what I now do for a living. I run campaigns, write literature, craft strategy, write speeches, and generally tell politicians how to get elected. And once elected I work in the legislature working on proposals for laws and policy. That is what I do for a living.
So when you pretend that there are only two options on the chart - honest elections or barring people from voting - I have to either laugh out loud or suspect you are being grossly disingenuous in the extreme to pretend to believe that. You see, if one party set out to say that 70% of the public cannot vote in an election, it would last about as long as an ice cream cone outside in the summer Phoenix heat. Such a blatant move would not see the light of day before it was shot down as simply illegal. So what you have to do is find a LEGAL WAY to get less of your opponents to vote so you have an advantage in the election. In plain English - you have to suppress the vote legally.
In a state where 70% of the people use mail in ballots - the change the procedures in a special election where they can no longer do that and instead have to report to voting precincts where some of them have never been and cast a vote in person - is indeed masterful political chicanery worthy of Machiavelli on his best day.
You successfully suppressed the vote of the other side and the result was a win for you. And it was all done legally.
Machiavelli would pat your side on the head and give you a hearty and well earned
"atta boy".