Culturally Conservative Voters Just The Plausible Deniability?
Posted on June 9, 2008 at 6:13 pmMary Mancini explains why the John McCain camp may have such a high degree of confidence of its ability to put Pennsylvania into play in the fall:
A state that is at “High Risk” for shenanigans this November, according to a report issued jointly by Common Cause and Verified Voting. Voters’ ballots in this state are recorded inside the voting machine on software or hardware with no separate paper ballot that can establish voter intent and become the ballot of record. So votes can be lost forever if the voting computer crashes, if the software or hardware malfunctions, or if the security of the voting machine is breached.
For all these high risk states, because there is no separate independent paper record, there is no hope of recreating voter intent if and when the machine fails. Hey, where’d their basic right to vote go?
It also no coincidence that in May of this year a Republican state legislator introduced a Voter ID bill - which, we all know, “is a solution in search of a problem,” and has the potential to disenfranchise millions (including some very old nuns).
There is no doubt that Pennsylvania will be a mess on election day in November. The Election Protection Coalition reported receiving over 1,000 calls to their Voter Protection Hotline during their April 22 primary - including poll workers giving incorrect information, rule violations and poor administration regarding polling locations, equipment malfunction, voter intimidation, and registration issues. Potential caging violations were also reported from voters who have been registered as Democrats for years, but were suddenly listed as unaffiliated and had to vote provisionally.
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If you can vote provisionally, you aren’t “disenfranchised” and there is no hardship to you.