Look, there's only one motive for denying other people the right to vote. And that is to strip away property and liberty from those people. Conservatives have traditionally tried to limit the franchise as much as possible because doing so protects their ability to prosper at the expense of others, rather than from any actual work on their own part. So the tories ignored the petitions of the colonists, not because the colonists didn't deserve representation, but because giving them representation would cut into the free ponies the Parliament had voted themselves at the expense of the colonists. Property owners resisted giving the franchise to non property owners because those property owners were voting themselves free ponies at the expense of non property owners. Women, same story different verse. Blacks, same story, different verse.
Now America's conservatives, and, with the most stunning of irony, some people who claim to be libertarians, want even more free ponies. What's more, they have utterly convinced themselves that all of the ponies should always be free for them, and that it is their fundamental god given right to have free ponies. But what stands in their way is that the people they want to take the free ponies from tend to be more likely to not vote for conservatives.
Translation: Conservatives want the rich to have a far larger share of the nation's total income. And they also want a far more oppressive and authoritarian government. And they flat out do not care about the affect that will have on the nation. But in order to get it, they need to suppress the votes of as many people as they can that will not vote for their agenda. Which largely means minorities and the young. And so they act to disenfranchise these people.
It is all about money and liberty. They are trying to take the votes because their intention is to take the incomes and the liberties, and the votes stand in their way.
