What is the fuss about voter supression about?
August 14, 2013 at 3:10 pm
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2013 at 3:13 pm by Something completely different.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptswiDHQf0E
Where I live, the local magistrate at which you are registered as a resident sends you a voting conformation letter (3-4 weeks before election), if you dont receive one you can call the magistrate and demand one. (if you still dont receive one you can sue the goverment for denying you your voting right.) When voting you have to take that letter with you and a photo ID to the polling station, after showing both to a commission set up by representatives of all political parties, independent observers and local authorities and they confirm your identity, you receive your ballot from that commision and can vote in a booth. So I must honestly say that I dont understand the fuss.
The only occasions of voter fraud and denial of voting rights I was aware of here, was a group of people who tried a sceem at various local elections by registering to be the residents of various different places in various different states and thereby receiving a big amount of voting conformation letters and then voting several times - and that sceem was exposed.
I am aware that there is still more racism in the South of the US, but I do not believe that any Southern state or better put: any governor and goverment of a Southern state, will risk the bad press resulting out of fixing a voting commission and voting requirements in such a way that people are denied the right to vote on the basis of color. I really dont think that it is a far strech to demand photo ID from a voter to confirm his identity.
There are things I find more disturbing about the US voting situation such as: Why do you deny former criminals the right to vote?
Where I live, the local magistrate at which you are registered as a resident sends you a voting conformation letter (3-4 weeks before election), if you dont receive one you can call the magistrate and demand one. (if you still dont receive one you can sue the goverment for denying you your voting right.) When voting you have to take that letter with you and a photo ID to the polling station, after showing both to a commission set up by representatives of all political parties, independent observers and local authorities and they confirm your identity, you receive your ballot from that commision and can vote in a booth. So I must honestly say that I dont understand the fuss.
The only occasions of voter fraud and denial of voting rights I was aware of here, was a group of people who tried a sceem at various local elections by registering to be the residents of various different places in various different states and thereby receiving a big amount of voting conformation letters and then voting several times - and that sceem was exposed.
I am aware that there is still more racism in the South of the US, but I do not believe that any Southern state or better put: any governor and goverment of a Southern state, will risk the bad press resulting out of fixing a voting commission and voting requirements in such a way that people are denied the right to vote on the basis of color. I really dont think that it is a far strech to demand photo ID from a voter to confirm his identity.
There are things I find more disturbing about the US voting situation such as: Why do you deny former criminals the right to vote?
