What the hell, over?

[erikred]

In case you thought this election went off without a hitch, read about how difficult the GOP made it for first-time voters in New Hampshire.

Hey, if you want your candidate to win, make it happen on the basis of his/her virtues, not dirty tricks.

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voting in spanish, what

[palecur.livejournal.com]

I'm continually croggled that we actually allow people to vote that can't or won't learn English. Okay, it's apparently legal -- but who the hell thought it was a good idea? And what kind of informed voter waits till Election day to register? These are people who are just going to vote the way they're told, not informed people making an intelligent decision. They're chaff in the expression of public opinion.

Deliberately misleading people about what precinct to be in is pretty bad -- and, regardless of election outcome, should be actionable. Contravening the Voting Rights Act about language stuff, retarded though I think it is, does violate the law of the land and, again, should be actionable regardless of how the vote turned out. I want to know if there's any action planned for those violations, because completely outside of affecting the outcome, that's not tolerable behavior.

Not deputizing extra dudes strikes me as below-threshold obstructionism -- arguably naughty, but not strictly actionable.

Re: voting in spanish, what

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you want voting reform! Come on over, son, we've been waiting for you.

Re: voting in spanish, what

[glitter-ninja.livejournal.com]

Just because they don't speak English doesn't mean they're not informed. Even here in Kansas we have a lot of Spanish-only TV stations that report on U.S. news items. There's always SAP on the TV that will translate from English to Spanish for you. There's no reason someone who speaks Spanish (as was the case here) is ill-informed just because of the language they speak.

As for waiting until Election Day, some people work the second or third shift. Some people maybe didn't know they could vote, or hadn't made up their minds to, or had moved recently. There's numerous reasons.

And just because someone registered early doesn't mean they're informed, let alone more informed than someone who registered late. That doesn't correlate.