Before 2020, drive-thru voting was virtually nonexistent in the United States. But now that the state of Texas has banned the practice after it was used by some localities in the 2020 election, suddenly our democracy cannot survive without it.

“We’re facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War,” said President Joe Biden of Republican efforts to enact voting laws in states they control. “That’s not hyperbole, since the Civil War.”