Dueling bubbles
Posted: Thursday, August 29, 2013 9:22 am
By Mardi Harrison, Community Blogger
... Here in PA, when our voter ID law went to court, the state did not (because I presume they could not) provide a single instance of voter identity fraud. Not one. Some other states have managed to come up with as many as 3 – out of millions and millions of votes cast. North Carolina, who I’ll talk about in a moment, turned up – one. But in conservative world, talk radio and FOX still have their followers whipped up about all that voter fraud out there.
What I can’t get any conservative to answer for me is, OK, you can make the fraud argument for voter ID, but how does cutting early voting days, under-providing voting booths in democratic neighborhoods, stopping a long-standing tradition of voting on the Sunday before election day, which clearly benefits black voters who organize at their churches (Souls to the Polls), moving polling places off campuses, disallowing student ID’s – how does any of that protect against voter fraud? ...
... Montravias King, at ... Elizabeth City State University ... is smart, educated, an activist, and he decided he wanted to run for local office. His county board decided that just wouldn’t fly, because you see, this young man is black – and he’s a Democrat. So, the county board decided ... he could not run because he listed his college address as his residence. I should mention here that the Supreme Court has already settled this issue in the 1979 case, Symm v. United States, ruling that students may use their college address for their residence if they choose ...
And, while we’re on that subject, how about the county in North Carolina that is trending democratic that had 3 voting sites, including one on the college campus? The County has decided to close two (including the on-campus site, of course), and the one that is left will be servicing – wait for it – 9,300 voters. To put that in perspective, the polls in Doylestown Township where I am located, service roughly 1,500 voters. In fact, the state guidelines in North Carolina mandate 1,500 voters per polling place. But this trending democratic poll that also services a college will have to service 9,300 voters. And did I mention, that location has 35 parking spaces. Please – some Conservative person contact me and defend these actions. Tell me why I’m just going all Liberal hysterical and this is all a grand plan to prevent voter fraud. Please ...
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