Little Rock Nationally President Obama announced the formation of a panel that would convene for 6-months to look at the voting system in the United States in order to see if lines could be shorted and voting could be made less burdensome. Meanwhile back at the ranch, a simple majority is enough to overturn a governor’s …
Category: Voting Rights
The Havoc of Vote Suppression Using Provisional Ballots
New Orleans In trying to suppress citizen rights to vote the use of provisional ballots are a sop thrown to the disappointed voter largely to pretend that their votes will count. This fiction is starting to fall on hard times. In the elections being reported in Kenya’s national elections where millions waited in mile-long lines …
Problems are Epidemic in the States Due to Voter Registration
New Orleans The headlines only tell part of the story when it comes to the emerging crisis in voter registration systems and the simple act of voting. I haven’t gone through the whole Pew Trust report on state problems according to their election performance index covering 2008 and 2010, but I’ve read enough to know …