Reply #22: Democrats own the issues, lack the scope [View All]

By Larry Womack | RAW STORY COLUMNIST


...If you think global warming and poverty are too big to tackle, you’re probably not going to like this one, either: National election reform. Thousands of voters were sent home in Ohio—the state that decided this election—after waiting in line for over four and a half hours. Not so far, far away, people in suburban areas got to walk in, vote and leave in a few minutes’ time. Every voter in every precinct should have equal access to the ballot, or it is, quite simply, not a Democracy. We’re still living in the days of the poll tax. The poor, quite clearly, are being denied their right to vote.

I can see the 527 ads right now: broken-hearted, hard-working, honest Ohio residents sharing the story about how Republican Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell took advantage of poorly-worded court ruling to send them home at midnight after having waited in line since seven.

Voting machines must be greater in number and distributed strictly according to population. There should be no subjectivity, here. All voting machines in the United States must be optical scan—it’s efficient, but leaves a paper trail and allows for hand counts. Anyone objecting to this, for any reason, has something to hide. If need be, a Constitutional Amendment should be called for....


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