Westchester County Disenfranchisement Campaign NY

[madfloridian]

Andrea was a Dean Dozen, I think.

http://www.blogforamerica.com/archives/005626.html

Westchester County Disenfranchisement Campaign
Imagine arriving at your polling place on November 2nd to find a long line snaking out of the local middle school. It's your lunch hour and you may not be able to make it back to the office in time, but voting is important—it's your civic duty—so you wait.

Forty-five minutes later, a polling station opens up. You race over and cast your ballot, hoping to grab a burger on the way back to work. You feel triumphant—you have cast your vote for what you feel is right.

Guess what? You may have just wasted your time and lost your voice in this democracy. In your haste, you stood in the wrong corner of the middle school gym to cast your ballot. You voted with district twelve, two blocks away from your own district, and the Republicans would like to throw out your vote.

This scenario is happening in Westchester County right now. The race for New York State Senate between Senator Nicholas Spano and his Democratic challenger, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, is so close that Republicans are looking for any way to widen their 102-vote lead. They seek to throw out otherwise-legitimate ballots that were accidentally cast in the wrong district, focusing on Democratic voters who made minor errors. With 1,000 votes yet to be tallied, this action also serves to stall the final count until after the new year.

If you were that voter, accidentally standing in the wrong line, would you prefer that election officials toss out your technically-incorrect ballot or focus on uncovering and correcting intentional voter fraud? Is the current Election Day system so flawed that it needs to be reformed from our gymnasiums up?

Posted by Tara Liloia at 04:25 PM

More:
http://www.blogforamerica.com/archives/005597.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/opinion/opinionspecial/05WE_vote.html

[proudtobeadem]

1. I can't believe they are reporting this

but NOTHING about the presidential election!!!!!!!!
(I'm talking about NYT)

[trudyco]

2. Well, at least they covered this?? Maybe next Ohio?? n/t

[madfloridian]

3. Looks like an op ed piece.

Not really a news article. But at least it appeared. How sad, huh?

We just expect so little of the media now that we are thankful for little things. :shrug: