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Fun with Electronic Voting
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12/08/2018 18:34:23
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
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>>There is a LOT more ot this than just that John. Do not kid yourself into thinking we do not have a voter suppression problem here - we do and it's a significant problem.

Which is why the Supreme Court just authorized Ohio to cleans its rolls after "resistance" based on these claims?

Ohio doesn't even require a photo ID: you can turn up with a current Ohio driver’s license or Ohio identification card; military ID; any official government document with voter's name and current address, utility bill, bank statement, government check or paycheck with current address.

If someone turns up with nothing, they can still vote provisionally and then have a week to show ID to an employee at the Board of Elections so their vote can be counted.

The narrative that this could disenfranchise poor and minority people seems racist and patronizing, since according to this narrative they must be like children, never paying their own bills, driving a car or receiving checks from employer or government.

You need to compare to other Western democracies- or even to Zimbabwe, one of the two poorest nations on the planet. In 2017 Zimbabwe decided that "one citizen, one vote" is important enough to implement a biometric voting system to ensure this year's elections would not be corrupted by skeletons or non-citizens voting or citizens unable to vote. Were this the US, activists would be screaming that biometric identification disenfranchises the poor and is anti-democratic (with or without a capital D).
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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