All these people* can go screw themselves

[conuly]

because they're determined to screw the rest of us over even more.

* Except those who are genuinely facing structural difficulties in voting.

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[siderea]

Except those who are genuinely facing structural difficulties in voting.

No exceptions. The disabled chick in Arlington, MA? She's twenty-seven. She had eleven goddamned years to find a goddamned stamp to mail in her registration to vote before this election. I'm not buying her lame-ass excuse that because she is disabled it's so damn hard for her and that's why.

Do you have any idea how relentlessly the Commonwealth of Massachusetts attempts to register voters? This woman had to throw out I don't even know how many voter registration cards in her life. They included the form in the reg packet for Medicaid and the paperwork for MassHealth. If the state finds out you exist, they'll send you a registration card just in case maybe you haven't registered to vote yet, whomever you are. I probably could find one right now going through my recycling, and I've been registered to vote at this address for almost 25 years.

[conuly]

That's amazing. NY doesn't work half that hard.

[siderea]

I just finally got around to reading about voter suppression in North Dakota, and how they are requiring street addresses. I was gobsmacked. Here in MA, our voter registrations forms ask for a street address and then has a box for a map, saying "Using landmarks, draw the location of the place where you live if you cannot describe that location as a number and street or as a rural route and box number."

This is what democracy looks like.

[conuly]

Here in MA, our voter registrations forms ask for a street address and then has a box for a map, saying "Using landmarks, draw the location of the place where you live if you cannot describe that location as a number and street or as a rural route and box number."

I wonder how often that really comes up nowadays, but it's good that they're prepared for this!

On a related note, one of the pro-cursive scare tactics is that you can't legally sign your name without cursive and so can't do a long list of official things, like vote. Well, I can see some corrupt or ignorant election official trying that rule, but it would constitute a literacy test. Everywhere you sign your name, you can legally sign with an X, or a stylized image, or in print. However you habitually make your mark, that's your signature.