Yes of course there were other issues. You focused on the issue of the Mormons voting as a block, which was certainly true (how that condemns JS I haven't got a clue), but that only bolsters my case that the reason for the persecution was the slavery issue.
The Missourians (a slave state) saw an exploding population of Mormons, who were abolitionists (Joseph Smith gave the priesthood to a black man) and they voted as a block. If I recall correctly the first casualties were over voting where the Missourians tried to prevent the Mormons from voting.
It is very clear (to me at least ; ) ) that the Missourians saw the exploding Mormon (Northerners) population as a threat to their slave owning way of life. And they tried every way they could to limit the growth and influence of the Mormons in their midst. If they didn't stop the growth, the Mormons would have eventually had the voting power to eliminate slavery in Missouri.
What is interesting though, is that neither Mormons nor the anti's want slavery remembered as the issue. The Mormons want the issue to be their religion, and the anti's want it to be polygamy, not the mundane (to us now) slavery issue.
You focused on the issue of the Mormons voting as a block,
The Mormons want the issue to be their religion, and the anti’s want it to be polygamy, not the mundane (to us now) slavery issue.
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Wrong, I listed it along with several other issues. Primacy of place does not necessarily mean focus. There was no focus.
Actually, most “anti’s” focus on the crimes (theft and fraud, and assassination attempt against Gov. Boggs) of the LDS in MO, rather than polygamy.
Polygamy was much more of an issue in Deseret.