After some technical difficulties with acquiring a confirmation invitation to blog, this was the first article I stumbled upon after searching for topics to include for election day.There are reports of registered Latino voters in the Los Angeles area receiving phone calls reminding them to vote on "November 3rd", not November 2nd.
Voters in Louisiana, Maine, and New Hampshire are receiving calls about information to go to a website to vote online. However, online voting is only available to U.S. voters overseas.
Minorities neighborhoods in Texas have been passed out fliers encouraging to ticket-split there ballots under the "Black Democratic Trust of Texas"--A non existent political group.
All over the country, the list go on and on.
Voter Suppression is illegal and these incidences are being investigated. It is a very clever, but cynical and cowardly way to take advantage of the election system and of those unaware of the voting process.
2 comments:
It's really unfair that the minorities are the ones who are being suppressed on election day. They're the ones who make a difference by voting, and without their votes, the outcome of election day is clearly broken. Suppressing their votes only delays the results longer.
It's really unfortunate that people would actually try to restrict minorities from voting. First off, voter suppression totally ruins the outcome of Election day. Second, it makes the election system look weak and something that could be taken advantage of. Finally, it's straight up unfair.
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