By GottaLaff
Class, settle down! This is important. Bucky, David G., cell phones off, please. Eve? Will you please stop whispering to Chris and Margali? Ady, Molix, leave Paddy's coffee alone! Jon, how many times have I told you not to crack jokes in the middle of a lecture on voter suppression? Ellen and TheKingFiphtin, rolling your eyes at me will not win Obama this election! Pay attention, kiddies. Our country's at stake. Class is in session:
In Pennsylvania, two Pittsburgh-area elections officials are suing to permit a dress code at polling places, after a Pennsylvania Department of State memo advised counties last month that voters' attire doesn't matter.Okay, class, it's time for a pop quiz on the following methods to disenfranchise voters. This is an open-book test. You may go here to find the details you need:
In Virginia, where backers of both Barack Obama and John McCain are pushing for registration of college students in this battleground state, many students were wrongly advised by officials that registering could adversely affect their parents' taxes.
In Michigan, campaign officials are suing to prevent lists of foreclosed homes being used to prevent voters from voting at their local precinct.
And in Ohio, a legal skirmish over same-day registration and voting has not prevented hundreds from casting absentee ballots a month before Election Day, even though they do not plan on bring out of state come November 4.
Across the country, voter registration leading up to a highly-anticipated presidential election has been up, but so are concerns that bureaucracy, misreadings of election law, or just plain stupid mistakes may cost many Americans their right to exercise their vote.
- No Shirt, No Shoes, No Vote?
- Sorry, You've Been De-Registered
- Lost Your House, Lost Your Vote?
- Old Enough To Vote, But Not Here?
Class dismissed.
Kirsten, Mainy, Fernando! Once and for all.... Put the margaritas away!
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